"Yeah, my 18 year old nephew is a wiz at computers! He set up his Facebook account all on his own! Let's call him!" - some dumba$$ career politician.
Yeah, and you find me a place above the level of a borough/town, where that kind of thing could occur, you call me. I've worked in the public sector on multiple occasions, and once you get beyond the lowest of locality governments there are "policies and procedures" in place that are in place to prevent just that sort of thing. And there are consequences, usually pretty unpleasant, for violating them.
By the time you get to county level government in many places that scenario would be about as likely as getting hit by a meteorite.
Contrary to often bandied about and uninformed public opinion, those running government above the lowest levels are generally not idiots, and the higher up you go the less likely they are to be idiots. You may despise everything a given politician does or stands for, but you're deluding yourself in the vast majority of cases if you allow yourself to believe they're stupid.
I've literally "looked at life from both sides now" as far as public versus private sector and each is about the same. And the bigger the private sector organization happens to be, the more like a government it becomes, and that's out of necessity. You can't run a multinational conglomerate like it's a mom and pop store, and bureaucracy builds up to allow you to run it. And some of the bureaucracy is bound to drive any one of us who has to deal with it into a fit of rage (or to drink) upon occasion. Bureaucracy is not a feature exclusive to government, but it's in place in far smaller governments than it is in most small businesses.
