What happens when any government hires on the basis of political party instead of competence
An honest business hires people who are competent. In fact, competence is usually a requirement for being hired.
But when it comes to government, competence is irrelevant. What matters to some governments is hiring people who support the ruling party, or people who have the right...something, but competence isn't the most important criterion.
This is particularly true in some political parties, particularly in many big cities and states. The result is that in those cities and states, government is legendarily incompetent. Case in point: Washington DC.
DC has been ruled by Democrats for many decades. Recently a resident of New Mexico who worked in that unfortunate city applied for a marriage license at the DC "Marriage Bureau." (One hardly imagines that there would be enough applicants in DC on any day to keep an entire bureau busy, but having a bureau to do that puts more people into government jobs, so....)
The clerk asked the applicant for a photo ID--something the courts have said you can't require people to show to do trivial stuff like voting, but which you apparently must show to get married. The man gave them his New Mexico driver’s license.
The clerk--a government employee--appeared confused, and went away to talk with her supervisor. She then returned and told the applicant "My supervisor says we can't accept international driver’s licenses. Do you have a New Mexico passport?”
The astonished applicant told the clerk that New Mexico had been a U.S. state for over a century. But the clerk--almost certainly a product of DC schools--was having none of it. She knew Mexico was a separate country.
It took the applicant 20 minutes to convince the supervisor that New Mexico was a U.S. state.
If you think this story is funny--and it is--imagine how well things will work when the Democrats succeed in ramming through so-called "single-payer health care," which is cunning code for letting the federal government run all health care for 340 million Americans.
But when it comes to government, competence is irrelevant. What matters to some governments is hiring people who support the ruling party, or people who have the right...something, but competence isn't the most important criterion.
This is particularly true in some political parties, particularly in many big cities and states. The result is that in those cities and states, government is legendarily incompetent. Case in point: Washington DC.
DC has been ruled by Democrats for many decades. Recently a resident of New Mexico who worked in that unfortunate city applied for a marriage license at the DC "Marriage Bureau." (One hardly imagines that there would be enough applicants in DC on any day to keep an entire bureau busy, but having a bureau to do that puts more people into government jobs, so....)
The clerk asked the applicant for a photo ID--something the courts have said you can't require people to show to do trivial stuff like voting, but which you apparently must show to get married. The man gave them his New Mexico driver’s license.
The clerk--a government employee--appeared confused, and went away to talk with her supervisor. She then returned and told the applicant "My supervisor says we can't accept international driver’s licenses. Do you have a New Mexico passport?”
The astonished applicant told the clerk that New Mexico had been a U.S. state for over a century. But the clerk--almost certainly a product of DC schools--was having none of it. She knew Mexico was a separate country.
It took the applicant 20 minutes to convince the supervisor that New Mexico was a U.S. state.
If you think this story is funny--and it is--imagine how well things will work when the Democrats succeed in ramming through so-called "single-payer health care," which is cunning code for letting the federal government run all health care for 340 million Americans.
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