The Competence Gap
America is facing a competence gap as both government agencies and private companies repeatedly reveal a laughable inability to perform their basic tasks.
The Secret Service, whose multiple failures in securing former President Donald Trump’s July rally in Butler, Pa., are frankly hard to believe at this point, is one example. (Nor is the Butler event the Secret Service’s first embarrassment.)
So is the US Navy, whose ships keep colliding and catching fire.
American military engineers, who 80 years ago built entire floating harbors to support the D-Day invasion in Europe, now can’t install a workable floating pier in Gaza.
A federal program to build EV charging stations around the country is floundering. Nearly three years after legislation was signed to create 50,000 charging stations, only seven had been built —unimpressive results for $7.5 billion.
