I wish this administration would do some serious house cleaning in the USFS and NPS. Their incompetency knows no bounds.
Is there a bureaucracy that *doesn't* need a top-to-bottom purge?
Dubya has hacked me off on a number of occasions, and one perennial issue is his refusal to clean house.
"I wish this administration would do some serious house cleaning in the USFS and NPS. Their incompetency knows no bounds."
This same nonsense is rampant in every agency of the government. The entire bureaucracy needs an enema. These lackies have too much power over all our lives and as long as they have the union backing to the point they can do no wrong and bought off politicians nothing is going to change. I'm told by a Forest Service employee that they now must give preference to hispanics for jobs.
John Lehman, former Secty. of the Navy and on the 9-ll commission puts it this way:
"Two big lessons glare out from what our investigations have discovered so far. Number one, in our government bureaucracy today there is no accountability. Since 9/11—the greatest failure of American defenses in the history of our country, at least since the burning of Washington in 1814—only one person has been fired. He is a hero, in my judgment: [retired Vice] Admiral John Poindexter. He got fired because of an excessive zeal to catch these bastards. But he was the only one fired. Not any of the 19 officers lost their jobs at Immigration for allowing the 19 terrorists—9 who presented grossly falsified passports—to enter the country. "