Here’s some grim news I saw linked on NRO. Obama wants to lower the bar and reduce the competency of people working in the federal bureaucracy. To be sure, I doubt the “knowledge skills and ability essays” actually produced quality bureaucrats, but I nonetheless suspect this new step will make the bureaucracy an even bigger burden on the American economy:
Tuesday, President Obama ordered the biggest federal hiring overhaul in three decades. ..Now every other federal agency will follow suit. Tuesday, a presidential memo ordered the largest federal hiring reform in 30 years. For the first time in history, applicants will be able to submit resumes and cover letters and will not be required to complete knowledge skills and ability essays.
I have done a lot of the government essays since losing my project manage job in construction. The essays are redundant and stupid. After going through a few of them only a federal worker would maintain interest in the boring tedium. It really doesn’t get to the core of the hiring problem. Are you a bureaucrat who know the system (you win with the essay system) or do you have real economic analysis ability and can you solve problems.
If you are interested in BS just look at Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman. He’s the type of guy who wins the essay contest hands down because he knows the Keynesian dogma forwards and backwards. And then theres Peter Schiff who KNOWS economics. Schiff would not have the patience for the essays and Krugman would blow him away. But with the Republic hanging in the balance which one do you really wanting to be calling the shots?
I will continue to do my federal government essays and I am sure they can figure out I like Friedman and Hayek and get rejected but there is always hope.
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