I DON’T REALLY SEE THIS RESONATING WITH THE VOTERS: WaPo: Uncle Sam had better start treating his employees right.

The Office of Personnel Management recently released SES Exit Survey Results, reflecting the responses of 221 senior executives, from 24 agencies, who participated in the survey from April 2013 through July 2014.

One of the most troubling lines in the report said: “Work environment issues are the highest contributing factors in an executive’s decision to leave.”

The single largest factor for leaving cited by these top federal employees was the “political environment.” It was blamed as a contributing factor “to a great extent” or “to a very great extent” by 42 percent of those surveyed. There was a three-way tie for second place, among “senior leadership,” “organizational culture” and a “desire to enjoy life without work commitments.”

Every organization might have issues with these last three factors, but it is federal employees who have to contend with a political environment that has become partisan, poisonous and barely productive.

Listen to Arthur H. Barber, Trip to his friends, who spent 12 years as a Navy SES civilian, after 28 years in a Navy uniform.

“My job involved doing deliberate planning and analysis for the Navy’s long-term budget and investment plans,” he said by e-mail. “The entire federal government has departed from any path of rational behavior in budgeting, so the work I was doing was increasingly irrelevant as a result of the annual budget crisis and confrontation between Administration and Congress.”

In the wake of scandals at the IRS, DOJ, DHS, Secret Service, CDC, etc., I say, abolish the Civil Service laws. The bureaucracy isn’t professional enough to be trusted, so let’s make the Executive completely responsible for its actions.