TIME magazine puts the pieces together in this week’s edition, showing that Michael Brown, now disgraced former-head of FEMA, was the tip of the unqualified iceberg. Across the board, it would seem that qualified, experienced bureaucrats are getting replaced by political or personal pals – at the expense of American public.
This becomes particularly concerning when you consider that Princeton University recently found that experienced federal workers make the best government managers.
The issue of cronyism is nothing new. Last year, POGO released a report identifying 224 government officials going through the revolving door to work in private industry for one or more of the government’s top 20 contractors. About one-third of those officials were able to influence contracts going to their future employers. The report is here.
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