This is the 2nd best thing that could have happened.
I agree that this is a good thing, but if this is the 2nd best, what is the best?
'Bout time ordinary citizens woke up to the fact that we have a new American privileged class. With no sense of irony they call themselves "public servants". They vote themselves pay raises, benefits exceeding anything in the private sector, early retirement with generous pensions, holidays and vacations to-die-for, excellent health insurance with tiny co-pays....(need I go on?).
Now add to that the lucrative market they create for themselves in after-government jobs. Based on the training we gave them, they leave gov't in mid-career and cash in on "consulting"---showing private companies how to game the system they supposedly supported on the inside.
All these benefits in jobs they've designed to have no accountability, no expectation of achieving goals---let me correct that, there ARE no "goals" as we know them out here in the market economy.
And all the while they get kudos from the media and politicians for their "dedicated" public service, as if a desk jockey at Interior is sooooo superior to the guy who works all his life in the accounting department at Sears.
Both getting voted out.