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There are certainly problems with the federal civil service, but how could a return to the spoils system be better? And to a large degree, the civil service sti
by RougeFemme 13y ago
There are certainly problems with the federal civil service, but how could a return to the spoils system be better? And to a large degree, the civil service still operates very much like a spoils system under the hood, despite all the documentation and attempts to the contrary.
- hga 13y agoWell, if it really operates very much like one, why not make it explicit? As for how it could be better, as I said about, accountability. Let's take a recent partial example: when George H. W. Bush became president, he immediately got rid of every "Reaganite" in the politically appointed/staff/whatever parts that a president has control over. And the nation didn't like the results and fired his ass in the next election.