Posted on 01/18/2025 5:27:01 AM PST by MtnClimber
The bureaucracy is a power unto itself. That was never the plan.
Back in the old days, a public service job was security. You received a reasonable salary, nothing extravagant, your job was relatively safe, and the work pressures were expected to be less than in “the real world.” If you wanted more, you ventured out into that real world where there were no limits to what you could achieve and earn. Public service was public service—it wasn’t meant to be Maseratis and mansions.
Today, we pay public servants more than they would get in the real world, where market forces—profitability and competence—are at play.
The phrase “public service union” is an oxymoron. A union holding a company to ransom where there is a market reality controlling the negotiations is arguably a relatively fair system. When there is no profit and loss equation, just threats and handshakes between multiple levels of the same public service, it becomes a joke.
And doing it via an arm’s length committee is an insulting camouflage that no one believes.
SNIP
Public servants doing their job shouldn’t starve. No one disputes that they should be able to live comfortably. However, they should not be elevated above the public they serve. They should not get benefits more than the general public or benefit from other special rules.
Instead, they must be neutral employees doing exemplary work under the Constitution and rule of law. If they are part of the Executive branch, that means following and supporting the President’s agenda or, if they don’t, resigning, which is an honorable alternative.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong."
"You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing."
Friedman other spending someone else’s money on someone else
Or people spending other people’s money on other people.
So I guess Vivek and Musk can just...do all this stuff? And Congress and the courts will let them? Cool.
” And Congress and the courts will let them? Cool.”
The state block grants would total about a trillion dollars.
That sort of money will attract support at the state level.
“The state block grants would total about a trillion dollars.
That sort of money will attract support at the state level.”
Okay, we’ll see how it works out.
Nice fantasy, but there are all kinds of legal protections in place to prevent what you say to occur.
What you want is a progressive dictatorship.
This thread is hysterically funny.
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