To Big For Its Own Good

To Big For Its Own Good

Following my last post about Holders letter to Kansas, I was thinking about all the snide remarks I made, and if maybe I should tone it down a bit. I know that my site is frequented by the same department whose leader I just called a poodle.

Um, no, I won’t stop.

It’s not that I hate government, it is the fact that the government in its current form is to big and out of control. To make an analogy look to the education districts of our public schools, since 1979 the administrative branch is 700 times bigger than it was, while the teacher and pupil growth rate stands at 200 percent in that same period. So what to glean from that, the same thing we glean from the federal government. To many bureaucrats and not enough teaching. To big for its own good or ours.

I understand that since our government began, people chasing power wanted to get involved in or in bed with the politicians. A natural occurrence of an aggressive Type A personality like most business owners or politicians, (back in the day), had in common. Powerful friends could guarantee contracts and favors much the same as we have now. The problem is, back then becoming a public servant was considered a privilege and a national duty.
Now it’s like winning the lottery, because in a lot of ways, it is. If you make it to a position of power such as a Mayor or Governor you are going to be paid well, if you make it to Congress you have set yourself up for life, and the longer you stay, the wealthier you will become, make to the White House, even better. And that, has created the monster we have now.

The United States is a huge complex country, with a multitude of problems to be dealt with, but as with the education bureaucrats in cities all over the country, you have X amount of politicians calling the shots, they have thousands of appointees helping them legislate/dictate the laws of the land, then you have millions bureaucrats wielding the sword of the aforementioned group. And all of these people get pad better than the private sector with pensions and benefits unimaginable to Joe Public.

Now add progressive liberals to the mix and disaster is just around the corner. They would tax their own mother into the poor house if they hadn’t already given her a six figure salary and appointed her to Czar of Poor Houses.

So yes, we need government, it just needs to be downsized about 40% and until something positive happens along those lines I’m gonna keep bitchin’ to whoever will listen.

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