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The government versus the people
American Thinker ^
| 9 Nov, 2021
| Jerold Levoritz
Posted on 11/09/2021 4:05:40 AM PST by MtnClimber
If things aren’t working, it’s because those who work within the federal government don’t want them to work.
I am amazed how many words have been wasted trying to explain this or that government policy that is hurting the American people. Don’t we know by now that, if a government program seems not to be useful, it was designed to be that way?
Instead of taking each program and dissecting it, the trick here is to bundle them together to better understand their motivation: importing cheap foreign labor, increasing energy costs, the irresponsible tolerance of cancel culture, vaccine mandates, anti-ableism, defunding the police, bail elimination, supporting inflationary policies, the failure to prosecute rioters on the political Left while taking political prisoners on the Right, promoting racial division, stamping out debate on government policies, assaults on private property rights, selectively enforcing the law, etc.
What ties these policies together? The U.S. government, in the form of many elected officials and the permanent bureaucracy, is deathly afraid of the People of the United States. Likewise, members of the government characterized President Trump as evil arose because they feared his policies.
Both ordinary Americans and President Trump have badly misunderstood the nature of our government. They believe it has the potential to be a benign force for good. With that in mind, by repeating many times and in many fora the idea that our government is “of the People, by the People, and for the People,” the People have scared the living daylights out of government lifers, elected officials, and the powerful elites outside of government.
It is for this reason President Obama acquired and distributed huge amounts of weaponry to myriad government agencies. Government employees needed these weapons to defend themselves should the People come rapping at their door.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: communism; government; policy; tyranny
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To: MtnClimber
I wonder if government employees are afraid that their neighbors know who they are?
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posted on
11/09/2021 4:05:51 AM PST
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: MtnClimber
A government, of the government, by the government, for the government, will parish from this earth.
To: Pete Dovgan
The government has a problem with their workforce. They are taking climate survey’s to access the extent. There are a lot of unhappy campers.
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posted on
11/09/2021 4:12:45 AM PST
by
RBW in PA
To: MtnClimber
The entirety of Fedzilla needs to be doxxed.
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posted on
11/09/2021 4:14:24 AM PST
by
Manic_Episode
( “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.”)
To: Manic_Episode
Next we will be paying to tear up racist roads and build roads in neighborhoods of color that have less crime on them.
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posted on
11/09/2021 4:26:16 AM PST
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: Pete Dovgan
It seems that I read somewhere that nearly half of the people in the US work for the government.. That is to say the county, city, state, etc... That's a lot of jobs, taxes and liability.. And they do tend to get the lion's share when it comes to income and retirement...
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posted on
11/09/2021 4:26:31 AM PST
by
unread
(Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire)
To: MtnClimber
At this point they should.
To: unread
Uh, you should google that:
14.5 percent
The public sector employs 20.2 million people in the US, approximately 14.5 percent of the workforce.
14.5% is WAY less than half....
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posted on
11/09/2021 4:30:00 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: Pete Dovgan
--
A government, of the government, by the government, for the government, will parish from this earth. --
Heheheh. That is actually the natural order of things. US is a historical aberration, inverting the power pyramid and in theory putting the people in the drivers set. Even having a DUTY to throw off government. That's radical.
CTH has an article with this same theme, that government is being destructive on purpose.
Powerful Crises
We are in a post-constitutional system now where the traditional checks and balances are ignored. This is a very Machiavellian approach being deployed against the American people. The U.S. borders are unsecured, and illegal alien hordes are intentionally welcomed. Again, by design. Simultaneously, the U.S. military is likely to be put into a crisis position by thousands of critical servicemen rejecting the mandated vaccine {data here}. Yes, another element of the design. Saul Alinsky taught the designers how to overwhelm and collapse the system, they are doing exactly that.
The recent off-year election showed millions of Americans rejecting the crisis they are having to deal with. Yet again, the radicals collapsing the system and creating the crisis do not flinch. Election losses this year and into the 2022 mid-terms will do little to halt the onslaught. The communist network operators have all been simultaneously triggered and activated.
These outcomes are akin to implanted terror cells that lay dormant for years and suddenly begin detonating their devices. There are explosions everywhere, except these are not suicide vests, these are pre-planted deployments.
Education networks pushing CRT {BOOM} radical teachers unions unfazed. Transportation and supply chains {BOOM} environmental activists unfazed. Communication networks and social media tools for organizing {BOOM} big tech unfazed. Legislative branch {BOOM} congressional representation unfazed. Judicial branch {BOOM} courts ignored. Justice Department {BOOM} DOJ and FBI unfazed. It's not only direct assaults, the collateral damage is the intended primary target.
The founders knew that in principle, governments INEVITABLY become opposed to their governed.
We are there.
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posted on
11/09/2021 4:36:39 AM PST
by
Cboldt
To: unread
Quick search says about 14% of the workforce, 7% of the population are leeches on the taxpayer.
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posted on
11/09/2021 4:39:52 AM PST
by
Cboldt
To: Cboldt
There are more state and local police in just one state like NJ than active duty US Marines.
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posted on
11/09/2021 4:41:26 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: MtnClimber
To paraphrase an oft quoted movie,
They think the people of this country exists to provide them with position. We think their position exists to provide us with freedom.
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posted on
11/09/2021 4:41:27 AM PST
by
Roccus
(Prima di ogni altra cosa, siati armati!th)
To: MtnClimber
“It is for this reason President Obama acquired and distributed huge amounts of weaponry to myriad government agencies.”
Obama was president in 2008. In the 2010 midterms the tea party movement defined the agenda (not the RNC) that propelled the GOP to a majority in the House of Representatives. The Constitution gives the House the power of the purse. All spending and tax bills must originate in the House according to the Constitution. Therefore if the House doesn’t include a spending item in an appropriations bill, it is not funded. Exclude a department from the budget and the department has to be shut down. If funding for Planned Parenthood, Obamacare, PBS, or consulting projects to social justice organizations is not in a budget, those programs end and the bureaucrats staffing the program are terminated.
While the Republicans controlled the House from 2011 to 2019, under the leadership of two speakers (Boehner and Ryan), nothing was done to eliminate the social justice spending Obama put in place during the first two years when Democrats controlled the executive and legislative branches. In fact most of the spending Obama wanted during his last six years was approved through continuing resolutions and giant appropriations bills. Obamacare, Planned Parenthood, Federal student loans, PBS, Amtrak and thousands of other liberal programs that had proven ineffective for decades, or were focused on “fundamentally changing America” continued to be funded at higher levels. The GOP majority Congress, elected to roll back the excesses of Obamacare continued to fuel the growth of the unaccountable, and growing, federal bureaucracy.
For two years (January 2017-2019) the GOP had a majority in both houses of Congress and the executive branch. President Trump would have signed bills eliminating departments, ending programs, and cutting the bureaucracy. Instead of taking advantage of the opportunity to roll back the every encroaching bureaucracy, the GOP Congress fought the Republican president while conducting business as usual with the Democrats.
Obama initiated the transformation of the bureaucracy into a political force. When it had the opportunity to use the power of the purse to reign in the bureaucracy, the GOP did nothing.
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posted on
11/09/2021 4:48:10 AM PST
by
Soul of the South
(The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
To: Cboldt
Full article for reference.
We are witnessing a very specific type of electoral frustration caused by officials within a system attempting to stop a communist style fundamental change by taking action within the same system simultaneously collapsing through the actions of the communists.
Joe Biden’s approval rating has collapsed to the lowest level in history {data here} ,which would normally cause a pause amid the political operators.
However, in this new era, where collapsing the U.S. economic and social system is the objective, the polling is irrelevant.
The Obama plan to use Biden as a disposable figure was designed for one specific four year term of maximum damage.
The polling is irrelevant.
Evidence of this purpose is found in the White House telling businesses to continue operating as if the vaccine mandate is legally authorized, despite a court ordered injunction against it {data here}. We are in a post-constitutional system now where the traditional checks and balances are ignored. This is a very Machiavellian approach being deployed against the American people.
The U.S. borders are unsecured, and illegal alien hordes are intentionally welcomed. Again, by design. Simultaneously, the U.S. military is likely to be put into a crisis position by thousands of critical servicemen rejecting the mandated vaccine {data here}. Yes, another element of the design. Saul Alinsky taught the designers how to overwhelm and collapse the system, they are doing exactly that.
The recent off-year election showed millions of Americans rejecting the crisis they are having to deal with. Yet again, the radicals collapsing the system and creating the crisis do not flinch. Election losses this year and into the 2022 mid-terms will do little to halt the onslaught. The communist network operators have all been simultaneously triggered and activated.
These outcomes are akin to implanted terror cells that lay dormant for years and suddenly begin detonating their devices. There are explosions everywhere, except these are not suicide vests, these are pre-planted deployments.
- Education networks pushing CRT {BOOM} radical teachers unions unfazed.
- Transportation and supply chains {BOOM} environmental activists unfazed.
- Communication networks and social media tools for organizing {BOOM} big tech unfazed.
- Legislative branch {BOOM} congressional representation unfazed.
- Judicial branch {BOOM} courts ignored. Justice Department {BOOM} DOJ and FBI unfazed.
It’s not only direct assaults, the collateral damage is the intended primary target.
- Inflation is skyrocketing as a direct consequence of the design {BOOM} middle class is collateral damage, the communists don’t care.
- Food and gasoline prices climbing creating massive pain for consumers {BOOM} the communists shrug – no biggie watch us shut down more pipelines.
- Major health impacts from forced vaccinations that were not appropriately tested {BOOM}, they don’t care – vax harder, vaccinate kids.
The collective program is designed to create maximum destabilization of all systems simultaneously.
Nothing within their plan requires the approval or consent of any representative body in Washington DC. COVID is the tool to “fundamentally change” the way the United States exists.
Joe Biden is a disposable front-man for the people organizing the objective, so they don’t have to worry about political damage. The Biden term was designed for a single set of four-year rapid advancements for the Democrat Socialist agenda. The Biden poll ratings and favorability, or lack therein, do not factor into the plan of action; those issues are irrelevant.
Those behind the executive branch; those controlling Joe Biden; are harnessing and weaponizing power; a power dynamic created by fear and enabled by COVID narratives writ large. Meanwhile, the legislative leftists are attempting to ensure the new systems they create under the guise of COVID-19 are never in a position to be withdrawn.
That’s the bigger picture.
That’s what they mean by “Build Back Better“.
The FIRST STEP in defending against this onslaught is to stop excusing it by saying they don’t know what they are doing, or any version of the incompetency argument. They know exactly what they are doing.
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posted on
11/09/2021 4:58:53 AM PST
by
Bratch
To: unread
I think that 50% figure included government retirees, welfare recipients and Social Security recipients.
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posted on
11/09/2021 5:01:53 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
("Anti-fascist" is from the official name of the Berlin Wall: Anti-fascist Protection Barrier.)
To: unread
Not America, but in Maryland and Northern Virginia, that stat is true. Something like 45% of Marylanders work for some level of government.
In the DC suburbs, it’s probably closer to 75%
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posted on
11/09/2021 5:33:43 AM PST
by
cyclotic
(I won't give up my FREEDOM for your FEAR)
To: MtnClimber
“If things aren’t working, it’s because those who work within the federal government don’t want them to work.“
Oh, things work, alright…. They work FOR the DC politicians and bureaucrats, NOT for the citizens.
We have been over-run by vermin in our government.
You can’t “make nice” with vermin. They’ll just keep coming back…
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posted on
11/09/2021 5:40:45 AM PST
by
joethedrummer
(We can’t vote our way out of this, folks..)
To: MtnClimber
This is an awesome, truthful article. Here is a VERY true quote:
It is the People’s money that is tied up in the stock market through IRAs and other savings programs. Rather, the money of the elites has been socked away in land purchases in the United States and other countries and in the means of production. They knew long ago the way to go was to jump ship to the next source of wealth before panic at home set in.
I went to a garage sale in Bastrop, TX years ago. It was a retired IRS agent and his Filipino wife selling out. Everything. I asked him where he was going. He said to the Philippines where the cost of living at the time was next-to-nothing. Many, many Federal employees have done this. I have run into several Federal retired employees in my side job who have tremendous land holdings here in the United States. The article is spot on.
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posted on
11/09/2021 5:42:22 AM PST
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: unread
It seems that I read somewhere that nearly half of the people in the US work for the government.The correct statement is that 85.5% of the people in the United States work for the Federal government. The rest of us work our butts off to pay taxes to support their incredible lifestyle. If folks only knew what I've seen.
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posted on
11/09/2021 5:44:03 AM PST
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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