Feds to Fill Local Elected
Positions with Federal Employees
CPI, 06/15/2015 (Aaron Truthinson, staff writer)
Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Departments of Justice and Interior
announced an operation today to begin phasing in a plan to replace
local elected officials with federal employees. Citing a shortage of
sufficiently capable and qualified people to fill local elected
positions, the plan would fill these positions with qualified people
in federal service.
DoJ spokesman Sam Sniffelder asked, “Why would local people want to
have their lives run by the few incompetent locals willing to run
for election when they could benefit from the experience and
education available among the highly qualified, professional
personnel in federal service?” Sniffelder noted that citizens would
gradually come to accept federal employees filling positions such as
mayors, county commissioners, sheriffs, and others. “The change-over
should be barely noticeable,” he said “since so much of what these
people do now is already controlled by federal regulations and
strings attached to federal money.”
It is difficult to argue with that assumption since so much control
over land, air, water, education, law enforcement, housing, health
and healthcare, and other government interventions have been taken
over by federal mandates, and by incentives associated with free
federal money.
When some local citizens complained that they want to be able to
vote for candidates for these offices, Sniffelder suggested that
maybe citizens could be allowed to vote for one of two different
federal employees to fill local positions. Filling such positions
with federal employees will become very important, Sniffelder
commented, especially for school boards of schools that resist
federal control, such as the federal mandate that the universal
“Common Core” curriculum be used in all schools, everywhere in the
U.S. It will also be important for county commissioner seats in
counties that resist implementation of Agenda 21.
“Since federal employees and decision-makers are so much smarter,
more well-informed, more attuned to the evolving needs of the
Nation, and more compassionate,” Sniffelder said, “they will bring a
standardization to American life that can't help but move the Nation
forward.” “And,” he continued, “federal employees from outside the
area won't need to be so restrained in dealing with local dissidents
since they won't need to stand for election or reelection.”
As is typical in federal service, Sniffelder said, it would be
common to rotate such federal personnel around the U.S. frequently.
This would serve two purposes: To prevent the federal employees from
developing bonds with local geography or local people that would
hinder application of standardized federal principles; and it would
serve to deliver positive experience to where it is needed. “Who
wouldn't be pleased, for example, to have a local official in charge
who has genuine and successful experience with public housing in
Detroit, with neighborhood integration in Chicago or Atlanta, or
with law enforcement in Los Angeles?” Sniffelder asked.
There are certainly precedents for such regional federal
involvement, especially including the federal management of public
lands in the West and the federal responses to weather-related
emergencies in the East.
“It is simply beyond the capacity of untrained local electeds to
cope with our complex world,” Sniffelder concluded. “It is incumbent
upon the federal government to fill this gap, forcefully if
necessary. Why go to the trouble to continue to bind local elected
officials with complex federal regulations when we can simply
replace them with federal employees who already understand what is
needed?”
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