Posted on 10/03/2013 10:35:08 AM PDT by mojito
...[President] Washington once said that government is “a troublesome servant and a fearful master.” Government has long ceased being a troublesome servant and has become our fearful master instead. Today the servants of the people have more servants of their own than many kings and queens.
The government shutdown has forced Obama to make do with only a quarter of his 1,701 person staff. That would leave 436 “vital” employees. The 90 people who look after his living quarters would be slashed to 15 to “provide minimum maintenance and support”.
Buckingham Palace, which is twelve times the size of the White House and has its own clockmaker, only has an 800 person staff. King Harald V of Norway and his court make do with 152 staffers. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden gets by with 203.
On Twitter, Michelle Obama announced that she is unable to Tweet on her own without the aid of all of her sixteen assistants; many of whom take home six figure salaries. There are more directors, associate directors and deputy associate directors on Michelle Obama’s staff than there were in George Washington’s entire administration.
Presidents have fought wars and made peace, explored and annexed vast territories and built a nation out of a handful of colonies with fewer senior staffers than are needed to handle Michelle Obama’s Twitter account.
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h/t Vanderluen.
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I’m a CONSERVATIVE, so I recognize the obvious PONZI SCHEME called Obamacare.
Obamacare has nothing to do with health, care, or medicine.
Obamacare has EVERYTHING to do with insurance.
Obamacare is a Federal Insurance Monopoly.
Obamacare is in violation of US Anti-Trust Laws.
Obamacare is a Federal Insurance Premium Collection Agency, aka FIPCA for Obamacare.
We CONSERVATIVES know that there will be other Federal Insurance Ponzi Schemes, right down to the Insurance Premium collected for the inhaling of CO2.
Then FIPCA will be there to collect that CO2 Insurance premium from all citizens.
But I digress, let us focus on the present.
If Boehner Caves In to the Court of Public Opinion, which is run by the Low Information Liberal “Mainstream” Media, and Obamacare is funded, Obama can then raise every year or quarter his Obamacare insurance premiums as high as he wants to, and the sorry US Congress can’t do anything about it.
Congress will thus be bypassed, and will no longer be needed in the future to fund the vote buying schemes of the social engineering POTUS.
Really very good.
Could Boehner be stupid enough to come with his own Boehnercare Ponzi Scheme?
Message received. Loud and clear.
I predict the sun will rise again.
The article is mistitled.
Each day this passes is a day the truth is exposed.
Most people will realized only 7% are essential dc employees.
the media can not BS it is just traffic. Amazon ebay and others have more traffic every day.
Children roll out better sites in a day, and they had 3.5 years for obamacare.
Maybe the Tea Party will serve up a little Taiping rebellion.
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