Exactly right. I would add that these agencies take on a life of their own, expanding geometrically in people and funding and, as time passes, disconnected from the elected government in terms of oversight, priorities, and policy. DHS is but one example. Look at the Department of Education, the EPA, etc. I would submit that until these l…
Exactly right. I would add that these agencies take on a life of their own, expanding geometrically in people and funding and, as time passes, disconnected from the elected government in terms of oversight, priorities, and policy. DHS is but one example. Look at the Department of Education, the EPA, etc. I would submit that until these little mini-governments with all this authority and no responsibility are addressed, everything else is just conversation. Politicians come and go. Bureaucracies live and grow forever.
Bureaucracies are the new feudal system. Unelected and given power that the governed forget they must oversee. The Governed has failed to keep the balance. Maybe I'm blaming the victim, but I believe it's apt in this case.
Exactly right. I would add that these agencies take on a life of their own, expanding geometrically in people and funding and, as time passes, disconnected from the elected government in terms of oversight, priorities, and policy. DHS is but one example. Look at the Department of Education, the EPA, etc. I would submit that until these little mini-governments with all this authority and no responsibility are addressed, everything else is just conversation. Politicians come and go. Bureaucracies live and grow forever.
Bureaucracies are the new feudal system. Unelected and given power that the governed forget they must oversee. The Governed has failed to keep the balance. Maybe I'm blaming the victim, but I believe it's apt in this case.
Bureaucracies predate feudalism by several thousand years.
You're right, a rose is a rose... and all that jazz. :)
A rose is not always necessarily a rose.
A rhombus may not be a square but they’re both quadrilaterals lol
Wasn't it George W. who said, "We're all polygons now."
No no that was were all radicands now lol