On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 07:19:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

Trump's biggest problem may be that he does not have a clue how the
government actually works and he is not going to change US civil
service much. That is the immovable object in DC. Technically they all
work for him but he can't make them do anything they don't want to do
and he can't fire them as long as they show up every day.



I was blown away when I learned that well over 100,000 people are civil
servants working for the Justice Department. What do all those people do?

If it is like most government agencies 20% are dedicated and work very
hard, 60% meet minimum requirements and the remaining 20% just show
up every day, not doing much of anything.
Justice is still a fairly small agency. You should walk around HHS or
USDA and look at that operation. When I was in DC we were in, what IBM
called at the time, the "GEM region". (Government, Education and
Medical). I spent 14 years in the belly of that fat beast. It made me
very skeptical of the government being the best solution for anything.