The firings going on now would never be ordered by someone who understood what it's like to learn how keep complicated underfunded systems working and to take pride in that and in working for the public good. Knowing you're never going to get rich or famous doing that, and not caring.
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Briefly summarized : And this is the danger with getting business people running public office: they know how to cut, but not what makes public institutions tick.
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And, well, where businesses can go bankrupt and be replaced by a different business, government institutions failing means entire services and populations are affected 100% until the service is replaced (if it is).