We can no longer weed-out those who are marginal or questionable.
I used to listen to local black talk radio.
Blacks think of jobs as police and firemen to be little more than good paying government jobs with security and benefits. They don't see them as public service. They see them as, basically, a cushy government job.
Whenever it was announced police and firefighters would be hired, the black radio hosts would tell their audience to apply because 'it's a good job with good money and benefits'. NEVER did they encourage their audience to become a cop to protect the black community.
That's why they push hard for affirmative action hires. They don't want black cops to protect black citizens. That's just what they say publicly. If it was about black cops protecting black citizens all the black cops would be stationed in minority districts (they're not).
The result, as I said, lowered the standards for everyone.
“The result, as I said, lowered the standards for everyone.”
It’s how we’ve devolved as a society. Government jobs used to serve useful purposes. Now their primary reason for being is government employment of people who can’t get work elsewhere and who will, in exchange for ever increasing pay and benefits, vote for the RAT Party, and not have to work very hard for their entire working lives!
Just look and all the hullabaloo about the poor “government workers” when there’s the threat of a government shutdown. The RATs and RINOs are worried if they furlough enough of these folks, they’ll get voted out of office! Personally, I’d like to see a non-essential services government shutdown for month. I just imagine it would be a real eye-opener.
Trump has forced us to see all of it for what it is. We really have had $HIT Presidents for all of my nearly 78 years, sadly including Reagan. A bunch of “can kickers,” but now that can won’t go much farther. “Other People’s Money” comes from those of us who are productive. The UN, foreign aid, military aid, stationing troops so the a$$holes in Europe don’t have to fund or staff their own defense, then we look inward to this kind of $hit. And then there’s the “trade imbalance!”