When you are elected president of the United States, you receive the Plum Book which lists about 9000 jobs that you as president may have to appoint someone to. Do you know 9000 good people that you would be willing to entrust some part of the bureaucracy and your good name (remember you appointed them to the position). Check out the Plum Book for a possible career opportunity...great pay, all federal holidays off. Feel free to comment by the time we test on the Executive Branch.
Mr. Thompson
I don't even know 9000 people, let alone know them well enough to elect them a position in office! It's crazy to see all of the different jobs the president has to appoint. How is he suppose to know if the person is reliable? How is the president suppose to know if that person is the best one for the job? I have a great idea to fix the problem. The president should be in charge of hiring 9001 positions, and the person in the 9001th position should in charge of hiring the other 9000. Problem solved! Now all the president has to do is worry about hiring one person, and the rest will fall into place.
ReplyDelete-Jared Bruggeman
There is not a chance that the President knows even a forth of these people well enough to know that they'd be a good choice for a job. 9000 is alot of jobs and thats not even how many people there are because theres more then likely more then one person that could fit each job discription. Congress should add a committee or something that specializes in hiring people people for these 9000 possible jobs. Then the preisident can just watch over and add in who ever he actually knows would be good for a particular spot. It makes a lot more sense then throwing it all at the President and letting him figure it out.
ReplyDelete~Kyle Zigan
I would not feel comfortable appointing 9000 individuals to 9000 positions. Each position requires a person who has a certain set of skills to carry out that job successfully. How is the President supposed to know 9000 people who are truly qualified for each position? He is only one man and I think appointing that many people is too large of a task for one man to handle. The jobs should be divvied up among a group of specialists who would be educated about the positions and able to appoint the right person. I believe Obama should still have a say but he should not be making this big decision alone.
ReplyDelete-Leah Fitzpatrick
I agree that it is not reasonable to believe the President knows 9000 people well enough to appoint them to positions in the bureaucracy. That puts a lot of unneccessary pressure on the President to make sure he is appointing reliabile and trustworthy people, when in reality he probably doesn't know them well enough to be sure they ensure these qualities. I think a committee should narrow down the top choices of people for each position, and then have the President choose the candidate he believes is best suited for each job.
ReplyDelete-Susan Hansen
I believe that having 9000 people to run the bureaucracy is great, due to the importance of all the departments and agencies. However, making one man forced to put his trust and reputation on the line for that many people can be nerve racking for not only him, but for the entire U.S population. I believe The president should only appoint a fraction of each departments workers, but trust them to appoint the rest.
ReplyDelete-Malcolm Wallaker
I don't understand why that one person is in charge of hiring that many people. I wouldn't want to carry that much responsibility on my back, and i wouldn't know 9000 people that would responsibily represent my name. Each job needs certain and different kinds of skills and he can't tell or know by just meeting them if they carry that kind of skill or not. There should be other enployees helping the president appoint these people.
ReplyDelete-Guicai Huang