"Scott en Aztlán" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 05:03:04 GMT, "Skip Elliott Bowman"
> > wrote:
>
>>>> Like I keep telling people, the world is full of incompetent ****s.
>>>
>>> And government is especially full of them...
>>
>>And how do these "incompetent ****s" get their jobs, and keep them term
>>after term after term?
>
> Protection rackets (unions, Civil Service rules) keep them employed.

I should have been more specific; I meant elected officials like city
councils, legislatures, governors and the like.