Why do we have ANY Brownies appointed to run agencies?

[yurbud]

What is wrong with picking someone from within to run an agency instead of plugging in someone from outside?

The fact that someone has been a CEO or involved in business seems to have no bearing on how well or poorly they will run a government organization, adn even if they have some good management skills, those are probably outweighed by their tendency to use the job to throw business to friends.

Rather than tear down and cut back the Civil Service, we should be expanding it up the food chain, and eliminating partisan hacks as much as possible.

Frankly, even cabinet secretaries could benefit from this. I'd rather have a dull, career bureaucrat running the Pentagon or State than corrupt, ignorant ideologues.

What, if any, is the value in making these patronage appointments?

[lvx35]

1. Political control?

This has boggled my mind too. My only guess is that somebody can sit on top and make sure things go Bush's way.

[Up2Late]

2. Paul Krugman knows, but the NY Times made his new commetary...

...only available for Subscribers, which I'm not. Anyone? Anyone?

<http://select.nytimes.com/2005/09/26/opinion/26krugman.html>

Anyone have a subscription?

[Historic NY]

3. Greed & payoff........

[Whoa_Nelly]

4. Maybe these Brownies could do a better job

At least these guys are sincere:



More pics WITH THEIR SAYINGS here;
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/brownies/sayingslxiii.html

[ToolTex]

5. It is by design. Instead of a public debate about what the People want,

which bushco would lose, this administration has decided to destroy agencies by making them unworkable. And all the while using names for programs that say the opposite, ie. Healthy Forests Initiative. Then if the agencies are dysfunctional they have a good reason to eliminate the agency.

This is the most basic dishonesty of this administration. This seems very hard for some to understand. They want government programs and agencies to not work. Some so that they can sell out the tasks to private companies where their friends and supporters make money, (like Halliburton), and others, (like public radio/TV), so they can eliminate them.

They rule by train wreck. It is their new way.