I am a 'NOBULL NEWSLETTER' reader and after being silent for a couple months, it came out swinging.
"I have, until recently, thought that the debate about "the size of government" was about the what programs government should be responsible for, how much government should be involved in our lives. But recent events have revealed that the size of government means just that: sheer numbers of people necessary to manage the affairs of the nation. The bureaucracy has become too large and it has become unmanageable.
The VA, the EPA, the IRS have become little governments of their own, led by petty tyrants and people with so little integrity that their actions are not taken for the benefit of the American people but for themselves and their co-conspirators. The agencies are so large, with mandates and powers so extensive, that it is no longer possible to maintain adequate oversight. The bureaucrats are so entrenched that they have learned how to "scam" the system. And, because they can only continue to reign within their little fiefdoms if government grows larger and larger and there is less and less oversight, they are overwhelmingly in favor of larger and larger government. That is, they will not act on behalf of the American people, which is their function. Rather they will act on behalf of ever increasing government and will, on their own initiative, take political actions which advantage themselves and whichever party promotes larger government.
While average Americans are being told by pundits to be aware of large voting blocs like unions, Hispanics, African-Americans, single women, etc., we have turned a blind eye to what is perhaps the Democrats most loyal and largest voting bloc: government employees---the bureaucracy. And not only do these life-long government workers vote to keep their jobs but it is also becoming increasingly apparent that they are beginning to use the power of their agencies to eliminate opposition to large government, to increase their bonuses and salaries, and to increase their power to continue to do so.
This is the real danger of Lois Lerner and the IRS. Whether it reaches to the presidency or it does not, it is the story of a life-long bureaucrat with her own agenda. She stopped seeing her job as one in which she worked for all Americans and began seeing her job as one aimed at helping those whose interests conformed with her own. And, it appears, that she was willing to engage in criminal behavior to accomplish those ends.
So, we are in danger. And, as Pogo once said, "we have met the enemy and it is us". The government itself, the size of government, the sheer number of agencies and people, has become the enemy of good governance. Like every large corporation that becomes bogged down by its own bureaucracy, the government of the United States requires a capable CEO to reorganize its departments and render them more efficient and responsive to the needs of its citizens. The CEO needs to clean house and get rid of people who lack the integrity to serve. The CEO needs to put responsible and responsive people with integrity in charge of governments departments and agencies, eliminate duplicate and redundant services and, in short, create a better government.
While we all have been focused on whether Obama is by-passing Congress, ignoring the Constitution, not faithfully executing the laws of the land; while we have focused on whether the judicial branch does too much and the legislative branch does too little, we have completely ignored the bureaucracy. It is the bureaucracy and its illegal political activity which enables subversion of our constitutional form of government. People whose main interest is serving American citizens rather than politicians would not be so easily convinced to take actions which subvert constitutional authorities. Bureaucracies have become too large and are now easily corrupted due to lack of oversight. They are too large to oversee.
America is about to crumble under its own weight. We may have missed our last best chance by not electing Romney in the last election. He is the sort of executive we need in the White House now. We do not need a politician. We do not need an ideologue from either side. We need a better, more efficient, less wasteful, more responsive, more effective government. We have enough laws on the books for now. What we need is to make certain we can and do implement the laws that we currently have. We need to eliminate the waste and fraud. We need to eliminate political corruption. We need more Inspector Generals, people to watch over agencies and maintain discipline, not fewer as is happening under Obama.
The red thread of our currently dysfunctional government is not Barack Obama and his incompetent administration but the huge, cumbersome and unworkable bureaucracy that he uses to accomplish his ends."
"I have, until recently, thought that the debate about "the size of government" was about the what programs government should be responsible for, how much government should be involved in our lives. But recent events have revealed that the size of government means just that: sheer numbers of people necessary to manage the affairs of the nation. The bureaucracy has become too large and it has become unmanageable.
The VA, the EPA, the IRS have become little governments of their own, led by petty tyrants and people with so little integrity that their actions are not taken for the benefit of the American people but for themselves and their co-conspirators. The agencies are so large, with mandates and powers so extensive, that it is no longer possible to maintain adequate oversight. The bureaucrats are so entrenched that they have learned how to "scam" the system. And, because they can only continue to reign within their little fiefdoms if government grows larger and larger and there is less and less oversight, they are overwhelmingly in favor of larger and larger government. That is, they will not act on behalf of the American people, which is their function. Rather they will act on behalf of ever increasing government and will, on their own initiative, take political actions which advantage themselves and whichever party promotes larger government.
While average Americans are being told by pundits to be aware of large voting blocs like unions, Hispanics, African-Americans, single women, etc., we have turned a blind eye to what is perhaps the Democrats most loyal and largest voting bloc: government employees---the bureaucracy. And not only do these life-long government workers vote to keep their jobs but it is also becoming increasingly apparent that they are beginning to use the power of their agencies to eliminate opposition to large government, to increase their bonuses and salaries, and to increase their power to continue to do so.
This is the real danger of Lois Lerner and the IRS. Whether it reaches to the presidency or it does not, it is the story of a life-long bureaucrat with her own agenda. She stopped seeing her job as one in which she worked for all Americans and began seeing her job as one aimed at helping those whose interests conformed with her own. And, it appears, that she was willing to engage in criminal behavior to accomplish those ends.
So, we are in danger. And, as Pogo once said, "we have met the enemy and it is us". The government itself, the size of government, the sheer number of agencies and people, has become the enemy of good governance. Like every large corporation that becomes bogged down by its own bureaucracy, the government of the United States requires a capable CEO to reorganize its departments and render them more efficient and responsive to the needs of its citizens. The CEO needs to clean house and get rid of people who lack the integrity to serve. The CEO needs to put responsible and responsive people with integrity in charge of governments departments and agencies, eliminate duplicate and redundant services and, in short, create a better government.
While we all have been focused on whether Obama is by-passing Congress, ignoring the Constitution, not faithfully executing the laws of the land; while we have focused on whether the judicial branch does too much and the legislative branch does too little, we have completely ignored the bureaucracy. It is the bureaucracy and its illegal political activity which enables subversion of our constitutional form of government. People whose main interest is serving American citizens rather than politicians would not be so easily convinced to take actions which subvert constitutional authorities. Bureaucracies have become too large and are now easily corrupted due to lack of oversight. They are too large to oversee.
America is about to crumble under its own weight. We may have missed our last best chance by not electing Romney in the last election. He is the sort of executive we need in the White House now. We do not need a politician. We do not need an ideologue from either side. We need a better, more efficient, less wasteful, more responsive, more effective government. We have enough laws on the books for now. What we need is to make certain we can and do implement the laws that we currently have. We need to eliminate the waste and fraud. We need to eliminate political corruption. We need more Inspector Generals, people to watch over agencies and maintain discipline, not fewer as is happening under Obama.
The red thread of our currently dysfunctional government is not Barack Obama and his incompetent administration but the huge, cumbersome and unworkable bureaucracy that he uses to accomplish his ends."
