11-12-2016, 07:55 PM
(11-12-2016, 11:50 AM)Benton Wrote: largely I was talking about the upper level positions. Military advisors, for example, are all mostly the same as they were following the bush house cleaning.
but you'd be surprised about the lower level individual staff. About half of congressional staffers quit in the first year. Mostly due to low pay and long hours. But ones that make it passed two years usually stay throughout their reps time
and each rep gets roughly the same budget to spend. Newly elected members of congress tend to spend it on more staff making less money. Lifers tend to spend it on fewer staff members who make much higher salaries.
http://congressional-staff.insidegov.com/
usually, the ones making the highest salaries are the one on small staffs and stay around a long time.
Interesting. Makes sense. I don't think it changes the answer any.
I wonder how much of "lies" and broken campaign "promises" has to do with getting schooled by career staffers as to how things actually work after winning an election.
And those career staffers are unelected - something we all should have a big problem with given how much power they wield. But that is a direct and unavoidable result of a bigger and bigger federal govt.
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