.JPG)
UPDATE: "Every month, the Trump administration proves that public-sector experience is necessary for a functioning government. Private-sector experience is a poor substitute."
Read the Washington Post, The best and the brightest in the Trump administration … and everyone else, which sarcastically asks:
"Who could have guessed that past experience in government would be a plus for governing?"
"Trump certainly exploited the notion that one doesn’t need expertise to serve in the West Wing — or any part of government. The experts were 'stupid' and didn’t know how to make deals, according to him. Businessmen can show how to run things! Wrong. It turns out that knowing something about policy, understanding how Congress and the bureaucracy operate, maintaining one’s credibility and respecting the constitutional guardrails that make certain our president is not a monarch are essential to success. . .
It turns out — who knew? — that when the president has no idea what he’s doing and his senior advisers don’t either, the president cannot get his agenda through, ricochets from one scandal to another and winds up with historically low approval ratings. . .
Business is business, and government is government. Sometimes public servants go on to illustrious careers in the private sector, but rarely does someone with no government experience nor subject expertise come in at the highest level of government and succeed. The government depends on experienced, knowledgeable and sober-minded public servants. We truly hope the rule of the amateurs and know-nothings is brief, and that the few experienced hands that remain (mostly military or ex-military men) hold things together until a fit president and an administration of qualified and competent people can be found."
Read the Washington Post, What happens when know-nothings and amateurs hold power.
Read also Trump's Big CON: His 'Successful' Business Experience Will Make Him a Great Government Leader.
No comments:
Post a Comment