{"id":136816,"date":"2018-06-22T22:48:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T04:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136816"},"modified":"2018-09-05T18:27:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T00:27:38","slug":"the-trump-gilded-age-government-restructuring-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/22\/the-trump-gilded-age-government-restructuring-plan.html","title":{"rendered":"The Trump “Gilded Age” Government Restructuring Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have no doubt that there are any number of "Hey, we can cut down on government oversight and regulation of big business" consolidations going on here in the name of "efficiency". Also any number of "If we consolidate this stuff, then we can more easily cut its budget!" ploys.<\/p>\n

But I'll zero in on one headliner in particular, the consolidation of the Department of Education and Department of Labor into the Department of Proles<\/del> Department of Child Labor<\/del> Department of Education and the Workforce<\/i> (page 25):<\/p>\n

❝ This proposal would merge the Departments of Education (ED) and Labor (DOL) into a single Cabinet agency, the Department of Education and the Workforce (DEW). The new agency would be charged with meeting the needs of American students and workers, from education and skill development to workplace protection to retirement security. Merging ED and DOL would allow the Federal Government to address the educational and skill needs of American students and workers in a coordinated way, eliminating duplication of effort between the two agencies and maximizing the effectiveness of skill-building efforts.<\/i> ❞<\/p>\n

I.e., we're going to create a Department of Vocational Ed and Skills Training, to focus both our schools and our workforce on creating good workers for the factories and mines and sweatshops and fields of the future, under the auspices of the federal government.<\/p>\n

Make America Gilded Again!<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Government-Reform-and-Reorg-Plan.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

[h\/t +<\/span>Stan Pedzick<\/a><\/span>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I have no doubt that there are any number of "Hey, we can cut down on government oversight and regulation of big business" consolidations going on here in the name of "efficiency". Also any number of "If we consolidate this stuff, then we can more easily cut its budget!" ploys. But I'll zero in on … Continue reading “The Trump “Gilded Age” Government Restructuring Plan”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,528,374,376,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-economic-justice","category-money-politics","category-taxing-spending","category-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/The_Bosses_of_the_Senate_by_Joseph_Keppler5B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132187,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/08\/soon-to-be-renamed-the-department-of-management.html","url_meta":{"origin":136816,"position":0},"title":"Soon to be renamed the "Department of Management"","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 8-Dec-16 1:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Trump's ability to pick people whose life goal seems to be to roll everything back that's happened in the last eight years (if not the last eighty) is certainly fascinating to watch, if only in an \"avalanche slowly rumbling down the mountain toward a bus full of nuns\" fashion.After having\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132291,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/13\/the-dept-of-energy-wont-rat-out-workers-involved-in-climate-change-work.html","url_meta":{"origin":136816,"position":1},"title":"The Dept. of Energy won't rat out workers involved in climate change work","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Dec-16 12:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"In response to a lengthy survey sent out to DoE leadership by the Trump transition team -- which, in addition to other info, asked for lists of employees who had attended climate change conferences, worked on climate change research, etc., the DoE has responded:'\u201cThe Department of Energy received significant feedback\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133991,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/29\/the-oh-so-generous-president.html","url_meta":{"origin":136816,"position":2},"title":"The Oh-So-Generous President","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 29-Jul-17 12:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump has been kind enough to donate $100K of his presidential salary (his Q2 pay) to the Department of Education. 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