I am calling Bullshit on the government.
Have you ever noticed that when government grows, it usually is not growing “feet on the ground” positions? It bloats like a dead fish on the sand in the sun. Middle management grows, new offices are created that duplicate existing offices. Rarely are hundreds of police and fire positions added. Thousands of useless bureaucrats are created along with their massive office budgets. Yet, when it comes time to reduce costs, it isn’t the duplicate offices with all their management salaries that are closed. It is whatever will hurt the Citizens the most. Police, fire, parks employees, etc. This happens on a large and small scale.
With sequestration about to happen March 1st, the Obama administration is proclaiming that TSA lines at the airport will be three hours longer, that police and fire personnel across the nation will be reduced, that 700,000 civilian employees of the government will be laid off, that national parks will be only opened on Thursdays from 2:20 to 4 and our entire military will be reduced to three Opa Locka police officers with duct tape, and the list goes on and on and on.
An example is the useless Dept of Education which has bloated into strings of duplicated offices that never needed to be created. Are they closing? Hell no. Student aid will be cut. Aid processing will be delayed.
Will this harsh punishment actually happen? If no agreement, yes. The government will punish the Citizens in an attempt to destroy the opposition party.
Don’t think the Republicans are any better. If given the chance they will do the same thing,They have in the past.
Our government is broken. They exist for their own ends, and the people are merely fodder in their canons.
Some Blogging Guy
The Democrats and Republicans will take turns with their coming and going
The darn bureaucrats will always be here and continue to multiply like rats
Looks like Ivan has put his finger on the problem again. The only thing for both parties to do, especially the President is to take a meat cleaver to these useless agencies and put these people on the unemployment roles, as well. Don’t worry about sequestration, just a scare tactic. Even if we are inconvenienced for a short time, all of those “bloated dead fish” employees will be back to work soon with retroactive back pay as an added bonus.
The politicians are supposed to be public servants for the people. However they are only in it for themselves. People need to wake up and realize this. Our freedoms and privacy are being invaded.
However the sheeple are too busy with the kardashians, welfare and the corrupt media. No one cares. It’s a shame
The Sheeple will get what they voted for I guess.
Unfortunately, the non-sheeple (us) will be suffering because of the mononic sheeples (obamatrons) . . . .
Until there is a strong third party (and the complicit media deigns to give it the same massive and ballsucking coverage they give to whichever of the two they like at the moment) the politicians will continue to play their shell games with most of the country as their suckers.
Cheryl, Suldog,
Couldn’t agree more.
That was supposed to be ‘moronic’ not mononic
Since we have a lot of comments on this topic, thought I would add what is, at the very least, an interesting quote:
The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
– Ronald Reagan
Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
– Ronald Reagan (1986)
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
– Winston Churchill
Okay, 3 quotes. Sorry.
Excellent quotes!
Those are great!
The real question and problem we have in this country is that we have to ask ourselves whether the powers that be are the powers that ought to be.
I cannot take credit for that. It was originally written (paraphrased by me) by Sidney J Harris who had a column that I remember reading in the Miami Herald in the 50′s and 60′s.