[Zuben Elgenubi]

People talk about the need for term limits for politicians.

What's clear from these sessions is the need for term limits for the careerist personnel.

They seem to have forgotten they carry out policy, not make it.

[Steve_Seattle]

"What's clear from these sessions is the need for term limits for the careerist personnel."

At the very least, I think that more positions need to be re-classified as appointive rather than civil service. A new administration needs to be able to go deeper into the bureaucracy in order to get its policies implemented. If the department head is fighting the whole department, he's in a hopeless position.

[Gene Eric]

Excellent point.

[rxh4n1]

These people make the old spoils system look good.