Like reforming the spoils system of the 19th century,
dealing with today’s incompetent, lazy, and corrupt public employees is a good
deal easier said than done. As always
with human affairs, self-interest rules.
In government, last year’s reform has a bad habit of causing this year’s
problem.
For instance, take the federal civil service, that vast
army of government workers (in 2011 there were 2,756,000 employees in the
executive branch). It has been much in the news lately, thanks to burgeoning
scandals at the IRS and elsewhere.
The civil service has been around since the Constitution
took effect in 1789, when there were 40 employees in the Treasury Department
and only five in the State Department. But there were no rules regarding the
hiring and firing of civil servants at that time. They all served at the
pleasure of the president….To Read More….
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