green_achers wrote:
Yeah, good ol gubmint is always there to be a whipping boy for the bubba crowd. If you really look at it though, you'll see that abuses on the scale we're talking are pretty much limited to the political appointee set, and that's pretty much the same class that gives us our bankers...
I'd bet you're aware of the following rule:
If you can, do.
If you can't, teach.
If you can't teach, work for the State.
This tends to load up the government with an incompetent workforce.
And it's not an appointee thing; I work closely with a department that I haven't seen a thing come out of since January when mandatory furloughs were ordered. That department has come to a freaking standstill through incompetence and sloth.
Unfortunately it appears CitiBank had a bunch of people that thought they could, but didn't. Obviously those folks need greater salaries and super huge bonuses.