Imagine these feckless fools in the private sector? My God. They would be tossed to the curb by security in one day.
It’s why we need to go back to patronage. No more lifetime sinecures. 4 years or 8 years with the new administration. Trash in, trash out.
1.Most employees are well qualified for the initial positions they were hired for.
2. Things go off the rails in the promotion system, which rewards the wrong kind of people. There is no real evaluation of employees so you are just as likely to promotes idiots as superior performers.
3. Buereaucracy hurts every employee in the performance of their duties. The systems in place to make things fair hurt every American as much or more than favoritism would hurt some Americans.
4. The procurement system has entered a new phase of pain. It used to be you could make a procurement decision and the difficulty was making the money arrive at the same time. Now the money is easier than the procurement decision. You can spend years trying to buy a piece of gear and now you have to budget in the time from the protest from the losers.