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Posted on 11/12/2023 8:10:28 AM PST by Bonemaker
Unimaginably, a staggering 500 federal agencies currently operate with almost no oversight. They procure items that our nation cannot afford, launch studies that are marginal at best, and manipulate the government in ways that the Founding Fathers could not have foreseen.
These government agencies, headed by self-regarded elites, hire contractors in ever-burgeoning numbers. Since Biden took office, federal contracts that fall outside the regulations have made quantum leaps. Biden and company cannot issue them fast enough. Government Accountability Office (GAO) data shows that even before the useless expenditures to contain COVID-19, the Federal Government spent $665 billion on contracts, a $70 billion increase from the year before.
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Maybe that “preserving the Union” thingy wasn’t such a good idea after all?
A kingship is good IF you have a good king.
The type of govt is not the issue. It is the hearts of the people. We are going to need more warriors.
http://learntocarry.com/files/On-Sheep-Wolves-And-Sheepdogs.pdf
Printed, fiat money supports mountains of debt and control of Fed.gov by insiders and social-engineers
Look up the term “Cantillon Effects.”
Economists have known about this for 300+ years. Its marxists and progressives who have taught Americans to forget about this natural law.
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Don't know where this author got their (faulty) statistics. The interest cost of Fed.gov mountain of debt is already over $1 Trillion per year.
Control requires understanding.
Budgeting has to become an art form.
Budgets are of four main forms:
1. year-in-year out basic operating
2. project continuation funding
3. project initiation funding
4. supplementals
Each department should have its own set of budgets.
Each department should have an initial maximum possible allocation.
Class 1 budgets should typically be number replacement items that can be passed to prevent widespread government shutdowns.
If the Democrats want say $80 million for something and the Republicans only want to spend $65 million, then it’s $65 million on the first budget round with supplemental negotiation scheduled.
There are thousands of possible disputes, not a single one of which can justify a broad government shutdown.
“Inflation is not simply an average rise in prices. Prices do not rise proportionally or simultaneously. This results in arbitrary benefit to some who have not created any economic value and detriment to others who have not destroyed anything of economic value by destroying savings for example. This is the Cantillion effect.
“In response to the change in relative prices, more resources are allocated to long-term capital goods such as shares [and houses].”
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/the-cantillion-effect
Fundamentally, we’re all just waiting for The Gods of the Copybook Headings to return.
https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_copybook.htm
The author misses the real danger to our nation. That is a fake "judiciary" and a Deep State that are both weaponized to an extreme extent now and simply cannot be controlled. Look at the persecution of the J6 people, the persecution of Donal Trump, the government purchased "evidence" (Steele Dossier), the persecution of people pro-life warriors for trivial things (shoving an abortion "guard" while protecting your son), the persecution of Catholics, the persecution of people attending school board meetings, fake FISA warrants, and now the persecution of the NYC Mayor because he spoke against the regime regarding illegal invasion.
This federal lawlessness trickled down to the states and emboldens them to follow suit. Look at the persecution of Trump in Georgia.
All of the out-of-control spending on worthless things pales in comparison to this total destruction of our Constitutional liberties and safeguards.
I have a cousin who was a bureaucrat in the Dept of Labor under Robert Reich and Craig Fuller. When Reagan was elected I called to kid him. I said, “So, it’s Reagan, what do you think?” He laughed. “Presidents come and go but we are always here” was his answer.
I’ve been thinking that since 2015.
“A kingship is good IF you have a good king.”
You have an excellent point. A king or dictator can be a good thing, especially when a democracy is no longer run by the voters, but by the party.
I just don’t see a good dictator assuming control in DC, not ever. He’d have to have military backing, and that ain’t gonna happen. Support by the media would also be wishful thinking.
That's why Trump didn't bother. He was spending his time doing things he thought this country needed at the time. Like building the wall.
Expensive to run and impossible to control. Monster indeed. And like all vicious beasts, it will fight to the death in order to survive. The worst is yet to come.
Didnt Ross Perot run on a platform to get rid of most of this? Didn’t he carry around a research paper, done by some college kid, that detailed all the wasteful programs, offices and spending?
Yeah, he was such a kook. What a clown. He was there to nothing but he a spoiler. He didn’t know anything.
Isn’t it odd that the Paul’s have been asking for an audit of the Federal Reserve and they’re both described as the ‘fringe’.
When will this country wake up and put the McConnell’s, Thune’s, Cornyn’s, Graham’s, etc etc etc, out to pasture?
Out of control? Like the Trillion dollars a year that is now spent on nothing but interest on the National Debt? We need a balanced budget amendment more than ever. Only a convention of States is going to deliver that.
Interesting presevative measures they used too. Grapeshot, musketry and blood.
If the FBI, which should be eliminated, and its agents are responsible for domestic investigations and protecting the “homeland” what is HSI and its agents for?
Why do the taxpayers continue to fund a massive training facility in Quantico, Virginia and an even more massive one in Glynco, Ga?
Government is force. Our Constitution is supposed to guard against that. But I guess that after a couple hundred years or so, lawyers and commies have bastardized meanings of things so much, that our rights have faded.
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