CIVIL SERVANTS?

The catchy phrase used during the election was "Drain the Swamp".  What a great idea, BUT!  Open the Books is a government transparency watchdog.  For eleven years they have been trying to get information from the Office of Personnel Management of the names, titles, agencies, salaries and bonuses of all federal employees.  When they got the data: 240,839 federal salaries, amounting to $20 billion in spending, were redacted.  We are not allowed to see what one out of five federal employees is paid. Is it any wonder Washington is in the mess it is in?
The average Bureaucrat makes about $127,000 in salary and benefits---compared to $70,000 in the private sector.  From December 2007 to June 2009 the federal workforce increased by 46% those making $100,000 per year, and a 93% increase in those making in excess of $170,000.
The Va scandal showed how, almost impossible it is to fire a federal employee.  The New York Times reported that only three people had been fired from their jobs.  Trump is cleaning house and another 500 have been fired from their job in the VA in the past year.
Due to Civil Service protection passed by Congress decades ago the President has control of only 2 percent of the work force.  Congress needs to move on this.  It is way past time for bureaucrats to realize they are not elected but are civil servants, not overlords!....Medicineman!