The incompetence of the Secret Service is just symptomatic of a much larger problem in government as a whole where the effects of Affirmative Action are manifest and pervasive. There are far too many unqualified people in managerial positions without any managerial experience or ability.
To compensate for this incompetence, the federal government DEPENDS on legions of private contractors to do the work, otherwise nothing would ever get done. In many cases contractors are the defacto managers.
But this willful systemic inefficiency never changes. As Charles Krauthamer so aptly put it, there’s a culture in Washington where no one is accountable.
The cost to the taxpayer of having a two-tiered system like this (one layer to do the work and another that pretends to work) is absolutely enormous. The taxpayer gets screwed every day.
Excellent point.
Applies not only to the government but private industry as well.
Hiring un-needed, incompetent Affirmative Action employees to placate the EEOC played a big part in destroying the 100 year old company where I was employed.