President Donald Trump‘s firings of bureaucrats and the sob stories that accompany them prove how incompetent and self-absorbed too many federal employees are.
The latest frantic scandal liberal media has conjured up to attack Trump on this matter came from the national parks. In this case, the Washington Post led its coverage with the following paragraph: “At California’s Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday. He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms.”
Put aside for a second that the layoffs and funding cuts at multiple departments have sometimes been reckless, leading the Trump administration to try and reverse them. How is it that Yosemite National Park, which employs hundreds upon hundreds of people, has just one person with keys and “the institutional knowledge” to get visitors out of locked bathrooms? Are we to believe that, if this man is out sick or goes on vacation, any visitors locked in bathrooms must stay there until he comes back because none of the other employees have keys or “the institutional knowledge”? No one else knows how to open locked bathrooms at Yosemite National Park?
This is either another example of malicious compliance, with park employees purposefully undermining their job to hurt Trump’s standing, or proof of the utter incompetence of the employees at Yosemite. This is supposed to be some sort of knock on Trump when instead, it is proving his point that the government is inefficient and incompetent.
Elsewhere in the Washington Post’s piece, the outlet reports that wait times at the south entrance of Grand Canyon National Park doubled after the administration fired just four people who worked it. To hammer home the sob story, the piece says the firing of 1,000 Park Service probationary employees is “what some are calling a ‘Valentine’s Day massacre.’”
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CBS’s 60 Minutes similarly tried to paint a sob story on USAID employees losing their jobs because they thought their jobs were permanent. In other words, federal employees now have to live in the same reality as everyone who works in the private sector, where there is the possibility of sudden layoffs hanging over their heads at all times. It’s supposed to make you feel sorry for them. Instead, it shows most people how entitled so many (now former) federal employees seem to be.
Liberal media are trying to drum up sympathy for federal workers and outrage at Trump, but they are accomplishing nearly the opposite. Stories such as the one from Yosemite only show that the federal government is indeed inefficient, and the attempts at pity for fired workers only show just how privileged they are compared to people who work in the private sector.