The Bureaucracy – No Butt Flicking Allowed
The Bureaucracy – No Butt Flicking Allowed
There are two types of bureaucrats in the federal bureaucracy: political appointees and civil servants. The president can appoint approximately 2,000 people to top positions within the federal bureaucracy. These people are known as political appointees. For much of the nineteenth century, presidents routinely hired political supporters to work in the bureaucracy. Over time, the federal bureaucracy became corrupt and inept, leading to calls for reform. In 1883, Congress passed the Pendleton Act (also called the Civil Service Reform Act), which put limits on the spoils system for the first time. The act also created the Civil Service Commission, the first central personnel agency for the federal government. At first, civil service rules applied to only about 10 percent of federal employees, but since then Congress has expanded the civil service, so that it now encompasses about 90 percent of the bureaucracy. http://bit.ly/1bnNgL9
Starting next year, Illinois law enforcement will not only be ticketing you for failure to wear a seatbelt or illegal use of a cell phone while driving, they’ll also be stopping motorists who flick cigarette butts out their windows. With former Democrat State Rep. Deb Mell’s bill HB 3243 now law, flicking butts will cost you. A first time conviction is a class B misdemeanor with a fine not exceeding $1,500. A second conviction is a class A misdemeanor with a fine not exceeding $1,500. Third or subsequent convictions will be a class 4 felony, punishable by a fine of $25,000 and imprisonment not less than one year and not more than three years. http://bit.ly/190me8r