UNDERNEWS: Carson wants government workers to spy on each other

June 11, 2015

Carson wants government workers to spy on each other

Talking Points Memo - If he's elected president, Republican 2016 presidential Ben Carson said he might set up a "covert division" of government employees to monitor coworkers in order to make government more efficient.In Iowa, according to MSNBC, Carson said he was "thinking very seriously" about creating "a covert division of people who look like the people in this room, who monitor what government people do."Employees would work harder if they believed some of their coworkers were secretly spying on them, he added.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: If Carson wants to be sure employees work hard, how about giving them decent wages and benefits, and respect on the job.; June 11, 2015 at 11:56 AM
Anonymous said...: He sure has a top down elitest mentality, the people would like to have spies to watch the leaders in government, that would be more effective to protect society. Make it a felony to lie to the public while holding public office and enforce it, that needs to be a constitutional amendment. That would clean things up a lot. No one would be against such a law,, right????? Let the sociopaths run for cover...; June 12, 2015 at 9:11 AM

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