And the best way to make the standards high is revoke them all upon leaving employment with the government and make them reapply. Like I said, if they’ve followed the rules it should be quite easy and fast to get them reinstated if they are hired by a private company and need one..... but this letting them all keep them for 2 -5 years is BS.
No, the best way to make standards high is to bother to have them in the first place and maintain them, instead of setting yourself up for regret by being sloppy.
The world runs on money and time - whatever saves either is a relative win. We’re never going to change that, or our need to balance idealism against them.
I’m not someone who wants anything worldly to be ‘absolute’, or ‘perfect’. I want what WORKS; and even though I want everything to work according to certain values and ideals, I know that even though you try to fulfill those by implementing regulations that purport to guarantee them, there is always, still, a degree of risk.
And make no mistake: no matter whether you develop the most open/liberal or dictatorial/restricted - system, you will still suffer risks; and there will be times when they get the best of you.
People want fast, simple solutions to everything. There aren’t many of those for the complex problems that our development has caused us to face today.
The fact that he seems to understand this is one of the reasons why I’m very grateful that we have the President that we currently have.