Tax dollars at work
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As a summer job after graduating from high-school at age 18, my nephew worked for an environmental firm that did contract work for the federal government.

His job was to fly (on commercial airlines) around the country visiting various industrial operations for the purpose of obtaining records from those companies pertaining to their compliance with federal pollution regulations.

He would examine the records and check the boxes on his own papers. He was making very good money. After all, he was -- for all practical purposes -- working for the government.

After a few weeks, he quit the job in disgust. In his words, "It's all a big game." He could plainly see the nonsense permeating the EPA. There were idiots with degrees in geological "engineering" or environmental "science" creating illogical or meaningless rules which the companies circumvented in whatever manner that worked for them.

When such bureaucracies are populated with mostly DEI-hires, rather than applicants of merit, this is what you get.

There was no point in staying on. No one can possibly put up with being the only person in an organization with a brain. You can't educate them if the neurons are not there.

The DEI-hires at the consulting firms cling to their careers and keep taking the money; and nothing ever changes.

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