Background: Waste and Inefficiency and Government have become synonymous terms in the public lexicon. The civil service system, where it is almost impossible to be fired, even for gross incompetence or negligence, has become a permanent retirement system unto itself.
Untold billions if not trillions of dollars of lost revenue, unnecessary expense have been wasted, not to mention the frustration of Americans having to deal with moribund, often irrational bureaucracy. Much of this has to do with nonsensical public laws, and some of it has to do with a moribund civil service system.
Amendment XXX:
Eliminating Waste and Inefficiency in Government and restoring a merit-based Civil Service with accountability, authority, and responsibility for the Public Good
The President of the United States shall have line item veto authority over any Bill Presented to the President for signature into law. The President may line item veto any portion of a bill that, regardless of political or ideological considerations, promotes waste and inefficiency in Government, and pass the rest of the Bill into Public Law. The Line item veto waste and inefficiency categories may include, but not limited to, Congress passing proposed Public Laws that are commemorative, award medals, and name public buildings, which have no place in the Public Law domain.
In analyzing waste and inefficiency in any proposed Public Law, the President shall be provided support analysis of each bill by both the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and any objective research source deemed appropriate.
The Executive Branch, headed by the President of the United States, shall have power to eliminate or reduce wasteful or redundant government agencies or departments. The executive branch cabinet level officers shall conduct quarterly reviews to identify and correct wasteful, inefficient, or duplicative department and/or practices. These Review shall be posted on government websites for public consumption.
The Executive Branch is responsible for creating, nurturing, and maintaining a civil service system based on merit. The merit system shall heavily incorporate a best practices incentive/reward system with open and transparent feedback. The civil service merit system shall incorporate thoughtful disciplinary procedures up to and including termination with the automatic proviso being that the first step of the disciplinary process focus on effective training systems and procedures.
The civil service shall continuously focus on giving each accountable civil servant more authority to enforce modern public goals under existing code framework based on common sense and the Public Good.
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