The American people are still unaware of the internal threats that both parties’ richest 1%’s politicians, their lobbyists, and their contractors pose to every facet of our lives because they currently control all levels of misinformation within both the U.S. government and the media. The facts, however, are indelibly recorded in how that richest 1% intentionally divided its citizens to bicker among ourselves, to ignore the need for major government reform, and that would have prevented the creation of today’s blatantly corrupt U.S. government. There is no other way to describe how a $36+ trillion debt spike occurred and went from a 1978/$772 billion low to its current $36.7+ trillion total in just 47 years (1978 – 2025), still no end in sight, and produced nothing of value. The accuracy of this statement was recorded in the 2024 election when both parties’ presidential candidates (Trump and Harris) promised a strong economy, after both they and their 2 corrupt parties’ politicians had already unconstitutionally destroyed the federal infrastructures to hide all levels of their waste. Both parties’ unconstitutional success story led to the reelection of President Donald Trump when a post-election survey exposed how 76% of Americans didn’t like or trust either Trump or Harris, and how they were forced to choose between the best of their worst 2 possible choices.

Both parties inconvenient political truth is that after President Richard Nixon’s humiliating 1974 resignation, both parties made the secret and the unconstitutional decision to begin creating a politically loyal civil servant executive branch, whose only loyalty was to the President (the 99%’s temporary political caretakers), with one major problem! They forgot to tell both the American people and the civil servant managers and contractors they were retaliating against, demoting, and/or firing for rightfully questioning both those Presidents and Congress’ blatant violations of their oaths of office to protect and defend the Constitution. Then, over the last 47 years, those politicians changed our Forefather’s executive branch from apolitical, technically qualified, and legally unbeholden to no President, to beholden to the last 8 richest 1%’s Presidents (Reagan – Trump), then rubber stamped by 24 Congresses (95-119), and the U.S. Supreme Court’s Justices, that now gave President’s immunity for their lawless actions.

This is also why America’s Bottoms Up Democratic Business Model website was created and includes 47 named whistleblower scientists, doctors, engineers, lawyers, accountants, auditors, and others within 27 departments, bureaus, and agencies to better understand how this 47-year-old trainwreck of the American people’s U.S. government occurred. The following summary provides that background information involving Congress’ 2 civil service reforms (laws). Our Forefather’s 1883 Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act & U.S. Civil Service Commission (USCSC) required: (1) an apolitical, technically qualified civil servant executive branch that was legally unbeholden to no President, and (2) carte blanche protection for all civil servants to prevent them from being fired for political reasons by placing the USCSC outside of the President’s control (not under the executive branch). Congress’ 1978 Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) was marketed as creating government efficiency when its sole intent was to eliminate all levels of dissent (whistleblowers) by now placing the USCSC under the executive branch, the President’s control, and dividing the USCSC’s duties between 4 executive branch offices, each of which was supposed to legally protect whistleblowers. But then, all 8 Presidents and 24 Congress’ Senate and House of Rep. leaders destroyed all 4 executive branch offices to eliminate all levels of dissent, still under the richest 1%’s pretense of the 99%’s democracy.

Both parties’ trail of lies begin with Congress’ 1978 CSRA because there was no credible excuse for this law as its prior 1883 Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act had already protected the American people’s democracy for the first 189 years (1789 – 1978) of the U.S. government’s operation, with that paltry $772 billion debt total. Given this fact, both parties’ only way to justify Congress’ 1978 CSRA, to create their unconstitutional politically loyal civil servant executive branch, was to deceive the American people, again! During the period 1974 thru 1978, both parties promoted the myth that our Forefather’s civil servants were lazy, inept, and never showed up for work, and just as President Donald Trump is doing today. David E. Lewis, a Vanderbilt political science professor, promoted that gross untruth in his book, the Politics of Presidential Appointments, when he mislabeled civil servants as underworked, overpaid, and unresponsive.

Then, over the last 47 years, both parties used Congress’ needless 1978 CSRA law to deregulate (destroy and rescind) its 1883 Pendleton Civil Service Reform / USCSC, that had once protected the American people from all levels of corporate abuse, to now allow the richest 1%’s politicians and corporations to take over the American people’s U.S. government. Within the U.S. government, Congress’ 1978 CSRA’s law created the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to politicize an entire executive branch of civil servants by changing its top government service (GS) management position (GS-15) from apolitical to political. This meant that all lesser graded managers, GS-13 and GS-14, had 2 bad options. They could rubber stamp their GS-15 supervisor’s implementation of Congress’ deregulation, privatizing, and outsourcing scam (transfer all inherent civil servant duties to contractors, in violation of Congress’ 1883 Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act), and be richly rewarded. Or, they could try to expose that scam and they were retaliated against, demoted, and/or fired. In addition to that undemocratic travesty, those 8 Presidents used Congress’ 1978 CSRA to secretly politicize the executive branch even more, in the following ways:

• Dumb down at least 4 OPM GS civil servant positions for electrical engineers and the fiscal sector’s accountants, auditors, and information technology civil servants. A major investigation is needed now to know just how badly a pre-1978 CSRA’s apolitical, technically qualified civil servant executive branch was politicized, and dumbed down.

• Increase each President’s level of loyal political appointees from Congress’ 1 level of their handpicked loyal political appointees (1883 Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act) to 3 additional (maybe more) levels: (1) GS-15, (2) Senior Executive Service (SES), (3) Schedule C political appointees, then carried over from 1 President to the next.

• • Now, 8 (Republican and Democrat) Presidents had powers akin to a dictator, that they then used to change the 99% ‘s democracy into both parties’ richest 1% ‘s oligarchy.

• Congress’ new Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act made legal what was previously illegal. That is, retaliate against anyone the current President or administration deemed to be disloyal (this website’s 47 named whistleblowers), now openly by America’s 8th President Donald Trump.

The below bullets highlight why the last 47 years of the U.S. government’s operation are labeled as legalized crime and a federal scam because the American people are getting ripped off in 2 ways, and with their own tax dollars: (1) They unwittingly paid 8 Presidents and their political appointees to deregulate (destroy) the rules and the regulations that had protected them from all levels of corporate abuse (1883 Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act). (2) They are still suffering the very real adverse effects of the weakened federal infrastructures their politicians secretly, illegally, and unconstitutionally created, via but a few of the following examples:

• environment (climate change), financial and economic security, national security, privacy rights, health/well being, created an opioid crisis, 400,000 fatalities, and

• • still-hidden are President Donald Trump’s inability to manage any facet of the U.S. government because its federal budget totals are fake, aka consolidate financial statements (CFSs), ditto for America’s also fake corporate financial statements.

Given today’s 2 deeply divided parties and their deadline to create a federal budget by September 2025, it is imperative to question and to end President Donald Trump’s wrongheaded direction for creating efficiency (by firing civil servants), and to focus on the government’s real debt problem. That is, end the inbred inefficiencies of a 47-year-old blatantly corrupt U.S. government where 8 Presidents (Reagan – Trump) used their politically loyal civil servant executive branch to rubber-stamp the procurement of both parties’ valueless and harmful corporate goods and services (like the above examples), then rubber-stamped by Congress, and a complicit U.S. Supreme Court. Long story short, the only way to end both parties’ self-inflicted $36+ trillion debt problem is to change today’ politically loyal executive branch back to apolitical, technically qualified, and that is (once again) unbeholden to no President, including Donald Trump.

This is also why the AFGE, its still-remaining technically qualified civil servants, and the civil servant whistleblowers they protected from being fired are key to working with President Donald Trump and the 119th Congress to address the U.S. government’s real debt problem (both parties’ blatant corruption), not with a chainsaw, but in a responsible and more cost-effective approach. If President Trump is unwilling to fulfill his most basic democratic responsibility, then he should be removed from office and replaced with a Republican Congressperson who will begin the long, difficult, and delicate task of creating a better and stronger democracy, this time for its 99%! This effort begins by ending the 3 below ways that both parties changed the 99%’s democracy into their richest 1%’s (Republican & Democrat) oligarchy, $36+ trillion, and still counting:

• (1) Congress’ 3rd civil service reform is needed to rescind its 1978 CSRA’s deregulation, privatizing, and outsourcing policies, both parties’ above noted trail of lies, also the root cause for both parties’ self-inflcited $36+ trillion debt problem, complements of America’s 99%!

• (2) Legally prevent both parties’ richest 1%’s use of their liberal and conservative media’s to  divide and distract the American people over the need for Congress’ 3rd civil service reform,
  • that began in 1996 when the debt spiked by $4.4 trillon in just 18 years, from a 1978/$772 billion low to its 1996/$5.2 billion total, and the creation of those 2 opposing medias.

• (3) Legally require the creation of the money (audit) trails to accurately account for how each President spends each federal budget, that 47 Presidents and 119 Congresses have so far prevented, key to cutting a minimum of 25% in waste (corruption) from today’s $6.75 trillion federal budgets.

This website’s Government Reform page provides the more detailed information on how the AFGE’s civil servants can address this problem to create an executive branch that exposes all levels of waste on a real time basis, not a 47 year/$36+ trillion federal scam after the fact.