Tuesday, January 25, 2011

It must be seen to be believed

Apparently, former Michigan Governess Jennifer Granholm--under whom Michigan's official unemployment rate exceeded 15% (25% or so including discouraged workers)--has gotten a job teaching job creation at Berkeley.

Next up, I anticipate Dr. Kermit Gosnell becoming a professor of medical sanitation and ethics at their medical school, I guess. 

Seriously, it amazes me how incompetent politicians get jobs running the exact same thing they've run into the ground.  My favorite example was Federico Pena becoming first Secretary of Transportation, than Secretary of Energy, in the Clinton administration.  This was remarkable because Pena's "qualifications" included presiding over the crash in the oil industry while mayor of Denver, and then commissioning Denver International Airport to "provide jobs" in the wake of that crash--that project coming in at about five times over budget.  If there were less qualified people to run the USDOT and DOE, I'm yet to be made aware of them.

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