[Prokopton]

Well if you can't get smart business types to join the government, just conscript them.

Smart business types is the last thing Obama wants anywhere near him. In fact, smart people of any kind seem anethema to his administration.

[bruinbirdman]

"Smart business types is the last thing Obama wants anywhere near him."

Haven't seen one person promoted from within. Like, "Our new Secretary of Health, Joe Sixpack who has been with the department for 34 years. Joe has worked himself up from a GS-6."

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