Too many douchebags already on government payroll from prior regimes.
Need to clean house first. Please feel free to apply at a later date.
An old Gaelic proverb is "The quern performs best when the grindstone has been pitted."[3]
[3] Burnet, Graeme Macrae (2015). His Bloody Project (First ed.). Glasgow: Contraband. p. II. ISBN 9781910192146.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quern-stone