Posted on 06/18/2023 9:59:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The real power in America lies with the permanent, Democrat- and union-controlled, and very unconstitutional administrative state. Vivek Ramaswamy spoke about this problem with Philip Howard, who has been writing for decades about the problems with America’s overwhelming bureaucracy. If we are to change America’s destiny, a conservative president must break the Deep State.
1. The Deep State is unconstitutional. The Constitution does not authorize a permanent bureaucracy as a fourth branch of government. It says only that the Article II executive is responsible for certain tasks and implies that he may hire the people he needs to execute them. Congress has a say in the matter depending on its willingness to fund the people hired. This means that, under the Constitution, the president of the United States is the big boss.
Today, America has an all-powerful bureaucracy that exists separate from the president and acts as a legislature to create binding rules and as the police, judge, jury, and executioner to enforce the rules. This is patently extra-constitutional and, therefore, unconstitutional.
Image: Vivek and Philip Howard. YouTube screen grab.
2. Government unions are a huge part of the problem. When private sector unions began, there were no government protections for workers, and those workers on the lowest end of the economic scale had no negotiating power, making them vulnerable to abuse. Unions gave them the representation they needed to make demands about wages and humane working conditions.
Importantly, private sector unions mean both parties to the negotiation have skin in the game. The corporation’s highest and best functionality serves workers and owners because it generates the money. They can still make stupid decisions (witness Detroit pricing itself out of the car market), but the tension of competing interests between the two parties at the negotiating table...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
But, but the government employees are public servants.
I just watched a video with JOE HOFT and TONY SHAEFFER on Rumble!!! OMG!!! Tony tells just how CORRUPT Bill Barr is, plus the REST of the Deep State!! But especially bill Barr!!
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That means parts of the executive branch think of themselves as no longer under the control of any elected government.
b) He's wrong about Detroit: Detroit didn't price itself out of the car market. Stupid government policies like cheating the Arabs by switching from a gold backed to a fiat currency and imposing billions of dollars of environmental and other regulatory costs in a short period of time fundamentally changed the market faster than they could adapt and left the American market wide open to imports not facing the same burdens. This is easily seen in Americans' car driving preferences: big vehicles are still greatly preferred over small cars.
“The real power in America lies with the permanent, Democrat- and union-controlled”
I guess that was why Biden was asskissin the union folks shown on TV recently.
Noted for later...
Constitution? Do we still have one of those?
The hundred thousand Bureaucrats in D.C. control your life….
The only way to save the country is get rid of every department….send everything back to the states…all the money….
?Constitution? Do we still have one of those?”
This was a question DeToquiville asked when he compared the American revolution and the French one.
He wondered if our success would last or would we eventually become like the French who absorbed the Royal bureaucracy after the overthrow of their King.
It seems his caution was justified.
Its very very hard to get rid of which is why this nightmare is dragging on so long.
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What an eye-opening description of the chokehold of public sector unions on getting anything done in government. It’s mind-boggling. Thanks for posting this interview. Howard’s book sounds very valuable reading for anyone thinking of working in DC gubmit.
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