{"id":509,"date":"2025-03-27T10:34:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/?p=509"},"modified":"2025-03-27T10:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:34:21","slug":"never-showing-up-for-work-for-years-what-a-great-government-fake-job-and-no-oversight-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/never-showing-up-for-work-for-years-what-a-great-government-fake-job-and-no-oversight-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"NEVER SHOWING UP FOR WORK FOR YEARS, WHAT A GREAT GOVERNMENT FAKE JOB AND NO OVERSIGHT AT ALL!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"sPost_Layout_Default_0_0_22_0_0_0_1_7_0_1\" class=\"mb-2 article article__head\">\n<div class=\"posts-custom posts-custom-section section-holder clearfix\" data-block=\"None\" data-format=\"posts-custom\" data-source=\"current_post\" data-source-type=\"current_post\" data-source-unique=\"true\" data-section-id=\"\" data-is-reordable=\"false\" 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data-attr-format=\"posts-custom\" data-attr-is_current_post=\"true\">\n<div class=\"posts-wrapper clearfix\">\n<div class=\"widget post-partial tag-doge tag-elon-musk tag-federal-mediation-and-conciliation-service tag-corruption tag-deep-state tag-government-waste tag-bureaucracy tag-waste-fraud-and-abuse tag-oligarchy tag-bernie-sanders tag-alexandria-ocasio-cortez tag-paid-protesters tag-donald-trump tag-opinion-analysis post-section--columns\/opinion\" data-category=\"Opinion\">\n<article class=\"clearfix image-article sm-mb-1 quality-HD post-2671433614\" data-frozen-sections=\"[]\" data-category=\"Opinion\">\n<div class=\"row px10\">\n<div class=\"rm-col-center col sm-mb-1\">\n<div class=\"widget__body clearfix sm-mt-1\">\n<h1 class=\"widget__headline h1\"><span class=\"widget__headline-text custom-post-headline\" data-type=\"text\"> Your taxes funded lavish vacations, luxury cars, and fake jobs <\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sPost_Layout_Default_0_0_22_0_0_0_1_8\" class=\"container article__main-container\">\n<div id=\"sPost_Layout_Default_0_0_22_0_0_0_1_8_0\" class=\"mb-2 article article__main\">\n<div class=\"posts-custom posts-custom-section section-holder clearfix\" data-block=\"None\" data-format=\"posts-custom\" data-source=\"current_post\" data-source-type=\"current_post\" data-source-unique=\"true\" data-section-id=\"\" data-is-reordable=\"false\" data-using-stickers=\"false\" data-has-more=\"false\" data-attr-posts_id=\"sPost_Layout_Default_0_0_22_0_0_0_1_8_0\" data-attr-layout_quality=\"1\" data-attr-header_template=\"jinja\/post\/custom-css.html\" data-attr-node_id=\"\/root\/blocks\/block[post_layout_default]\/abtests\/abtest[1]\/choose\/otherwise\/element_wrapper[2]\/current_post-\" data-attr-layout_all_headline_tag=\"h1\" data-attr-layout_all_subheadline_tag=\"h2\" 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data-attr-is_current_post=\"true\">\n<div class=\"posts-wrapper clearfix\">\n<div class=\"widget post-partial tag-doge tag-elon-musk tag-federal-mediation-and-conciliation-service tag-corruption tag-deep-state tag-government-waste tag-bureaucracy tag-waste-fraud-and-abuse tag-oligarchy tag-bernie-sanders tag-alexandria-ocasio-cortez tag-paid-protesters tag-donald-trump tag-opinion-analysis post-section--columns\/opinion\" data-category=\"Opinion\">\n<article class=\"clearfix image-article sm-mb-1 quality-HD post-2671433614\" data-frozen-sections=\"[]\" data-category=\"Opinion\">\n<div class=\"row px10\">\n<div class=\"rm-col-center col sm-mb-1\">\n<div class=\"widget__body clearfix sm-mt-1\">\n<div class=\"widget__subheadline\">\n<p>The deep state isn\u2019t a conspiracy theory \u2014 it\u2019s a reality. And the corrupt, free-spending Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is just one example of how Washington insiders enrich themselves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"utm_campaign\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body  css-listicle-body-2671433614\" data-headline=\"Your taxes funded lavish vacations, luxury cars, and fake jobs\">\n<div class=\"body-description\">\n<p>A little-known agency in Washington perfectly encapsulates everything wrong with our bloated, corrupt government: the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. It should be the poster child of everything that <a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/tag\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> is exposing.<\/p>\n<p>The agency was <a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fmcs.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">established in 1947 under the Labor Management Relations Act<\/a> to serve as an independent agency mediating disputes between unions and businesses \u2014 a noble mission, perhaps. But like so many government institutions, it has rotted into something far removed from its original purpose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pull-quote\">The FMCS goes beyond mismanagement into blatant corruption and theft.<\/p>\n<p>What was once a mechanism for labor stability has morphed into <a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fmcs-slush-fund-abolished-by-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an unchecked slush fund<\/a> \u2014 an exclusive playground for bureaucrats living high on taxpayer dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The FMCS is a textbook case of government waste, an agency that no one was watching, where employees didn\u2019t even bother showing up for work \u2014 some hadn\u2019t for years. And yet they still collected paychecks and spent government money \u2014 <em>our<\/em> money \u2014 on their personal luxuries.<\/p>\n<h2>Luxury cars and cell phone bills<\/h2>\n<p>The Department of Government Efficiency discovered how FMCS employees used government credit cards \u2014 intended for official business \u2014 to lease luxury cars, cover personal cell phone bills, and even subscribe to USA Today. The agency\u2019s information <a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/return\/\">technology<\/a> director, James Donnan, apparently billed taxpayers his wife\u2019s cell phone bill, cable TV subscriptions in <em>multiple homes<\/em>, and personal subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>FMCS officials commissioned portraits of themselves and hung them in their offices, and you footed the bill. They took exotic vacations and hired their friends and relatives to keep the gravy train rolling.<\/p>\n<p>The FMCS goes beyond mismanagement into blatant corruption and theft \u2014 and it went on for decades, unnoticed and unchallenged.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump <a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/trump-admin-to-dismantle-irretrievably-broken-government-media-agency\" target=\"_self\">signed an executive order<\/a> to abolish the FMCS \u2014 a necessary and long-overdue move. But the FMCS is just one of many agencies within the federal government burning through billions of taxpayer dollars. How many more slush funds exist in the shadows, funneling money into the pockets of bureaucrats who produce nothing? How many government-funded NGOs operate in direct opposition to American interests?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most disturbing question is why Americans tolerate such corruption. Why do so many Americans tolerate this? Why is the left \u2014 supposedly the party of the people \u2014 defending the very institutions that rob working-class Americans blind?<\/p>\n<h2>Corruption beyond bureaucracy<\/h2>\n<p>The <a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/progressives-rally-as-pressure-mounts-to-primary-schumer\" target=\"_self\">recent rallies<\/a> led by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and their socialist acolytes claim to be a grassroots uprising against corruption and greed. But <a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/derrickvanorden\/status\/1903941987797025193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GPS data from these rallies<\/a> tells a different story. The majority of attendees aren\u2019t ordinary citizens fed up with the status quo. They\u2019re <em>professional activists<\/em> \u2014 serial agitators who bounce from protest to protest.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 84% of devices tracked at these rallies were present at multiple Kamala Harris events. A staggering 31% appeared at over 20 separate demonstrations, tied to Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and pro-Palestinian causes.<\/p>\n<p>Many of these organizations receive federal grant money \u2014 our tax dollars \u2014 and they\u2019re using those funds to protest the very policies that threaten to cut off their financial lifeline.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t democracy in action. This is political theater \u2014 astroturfing perfected. And the American taxpayer is funding it.<\/p>\n<h2>Rooting out corruption<\/h2>\n<p>Trump was a battering ram against this corrupt system. Elon Musk is a surgeon, meticulously exposing the infection that has festered for decades \u2014 and that\u2019s why the leftists hate him even more than they hate Trump. Musk threatens to dismantle the financial web that sustains their entire operation.<\/p>\n<p>When we allow the government to grow unchecked and our leaders to prioritize their own wealth and power over the good of the nation, figures like Trump and Musk are necessary. Rome didn\u2019t fall because of an external invasion but rather due to internal decay that looked an awful lot like what we see today.<\/p>\n<p>We must demand better. We must refuse to tolerate this corruption any longer. The FMCS may be gone, but the fight to root out this deep-seated corruption is far from over.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your taxes funded lavish vacations, luxury cars, and fake jobs The deep state isn\u2019t a conspiracy theory \u2014 it\u2019s a reality. 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