Posted on 03/27/2012 5:45:59 PM PDT by Whenifhow
This is very important because this is what we are seeing under the Obama administration and in our state government in WA. It's government by bureaucrats, academic elites and NGOs, who tell us Progressives Know Best and that they only want to save the world. ....by redistributing it, reducing US population and herding us into cities, and so much more. Daniel Henninger has a piece in the WSJ this week about this same group of people and the role that they play in Obamacare. He calls the Mandarins, like the elitist bureaucrat ruling class in old China. Where we are most familiar with today's "Mandarins" is in regard to property rights issue.
Thank you for the article~! And your comment!
We’re Not France, Yet
ObamaCare is the coup de grâce of America’s policy mandarins.
http://online.wsj.com/article/wonder_land.html
I was really struck by the label, “Mandarins”. I had been trying to come up with some term to describe the regulating class and was coming up empty. Henninger is great, a great mind.
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