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The government should have the advantage in the continued employment of its employees. This would also create useful competition among government managers for the cultivation and advancement of employees, thus reducing the atmosphere of stagnation that is too prevalent in some agencies. Second, no one has pointed out the significant danger in the declining prestige of civil-service employment. One could argue that there has been a clear correlation between the declining prestige of civil servants and the scandalous conduct of elected officials and political appointees. In a time when there is so much discussion about money and politics, someone needs to remind Americans that civil-service employees, by virtue of their low pay, may be very much like Franciscan monks who have nothing better to do than look after public interests.