Writing at NRO, John Pitney takes a scalpel to Hillary’s laughable idea that we should establish a new “service academy” for bureaucrats modeled after West Point. You can read his piece here.
Creating this new university would be a sop to her supporters in higher education, creating lots of new professorships and administrative positions. But would there be any benefit to offset the considerable expense? I think not. Government agencies don’t have trouble finding good applicants. Even though compensation may be higher in some private sector fields, there is also more uncertainty; furthermore, there is a certain prestige factor involved in being able to say that you work for something in the federal government — although it’s a negative with me. And the notion that we would get better prepared people for everything from the Small Business Administration to FEMA if they had taken the program of study at this new academy rather than the curriculum at your typical college or university is awfully hard to swallow. The real problem is not in the personnel but in the voluminous and usually counterproductive regulations themselves.
