What this means in practice is a return to the very corrupt system we had before there was a professional civil service, in which the winning party uses federal jobs as a means of rewarding supporters.
What this means in practice is a return to the very corrupt system we had before there was a professional civil service, in which the winning party uses federal jobs as a means of rewarding supporters.
On the other hand, stability is the main draw of any government job. Without the guarantee of continued employment, most people wouldn’t want to put up with the lower pay and extremely slow career advancement prospects of government work.
So who will they hire? People who can’t get any other job, e.g. even more incompetent people.