Posted on 01/31/2025 4:41:07 AM PST by MtnClimber
Maybe the Administrative State should work for a living.
I was reading one of James Howard Kunstler’s exquisite essays when I stumbled upon a hilarious conversation in his comment section. Discussing President Trump’s turbocharged criminal alien relocation efforts, a reader named Mitch observed, “People keep asking who’s going to man the grills, pick the crops, clean the houses when all the illegals get deported. We have lots of useless government-paid parasites that could fill those jobs nicely. They’re educated, speak English, and currently produce nothing but obstacles.”
Bandit replied, “But bureaucrats don’t do work. They wouldn’t have a clue how to do anything useful, and I’m sure they don’t have the mental capacity to learn.”
Il faut savoir noted, “Working on farms is hard and demanding. We have produced SOFT generations, heads down on their cell and social media, and have hyped their worthless degrees as big deals. Getting some time on the farms and doing hard hand labor would not only get them in shape, but show them what the true value of work means.”
Finally, Beth Nicolaides dreamed, “I’d like to see a new IRS hire picking lettuce.” (Me, too, Beth!)
I think this online conversation gets to the nub of the most pressing crisis in America: there has been a decades-long disconnect between the vast government bureaucracy and the American people whom that bureaucracy purportedly “serves.” When President Wilson first empowered a permanent administrative state to handle the “business of governing,” he envisioned an educated workforce immune from the day-to-day passions of politics but uniquely qualified to direct the operations of the American state. That was at best a naïve dream and at worst a calculated strategy to deprive the American people of their democratic powers and elevate a faculty lounge of Wilson clones
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I would like to see them harvesting walnuts. Surely they know what a nut looks like.
Being a farmhand can mean one has to do actual work. Physical work.
Get these people's hands directly into fixing the mess they've made: Weeding in the National Parks.
I remember in the 80’s and 90’s when employers looked for young employees that at least had some experience in customer service, or the trades, or as a farmhand, etc. Today, many entry-level or “character-building” jobs are blocked to the highschool and undergraduate students that often did them in the past.
Yeah, I don’t see dusty desk jockeys transitioning to that situation very well, but I wouldn’t mind seeing it happen.
That would be perfect example to them about diversity without stupid laws to make it happen.
“People keep asking who’s going to man the grills, pick the crops, clean the houses when all the illegals get deported.”
Amazing. That is the same argument the Slave owners made in 1860. “Who will pick the cotton if we don’t have slaves?” We have to have that cheap labor to pick our cotton and send it to the North.
“””“People keep asking who’s going to man the grills, pick the crops, clean the houses when all the illegals get deported. We have lots of useless government-paid parasites that could fill those jobs nicely. They’re educated, speak English, and currently produce nothing but obstacles.””””
In addition to these useless government-paid parasites actually working, they could be put in charge of the millions of drug addicted habitual criminals, who clog our courts and jails, to clean our streets and highways of debris.
Make America Beautiful Again. (MABA)
And enrich the "experts" with fraud and waste, with money stolen from the American people.
Incredible.
Nature is beautiful, when well managed.
Another example:
Europe suffered from lack of land for at least last 1000 years.
So, practically ALL available land was managed.
Either for agriculture or for managed forestry.
And forest fires were nonexistent!
Now, recently, quite a lot of land has been set aside for “Natural Parks”.
And Guess what?
The forest fires are now ravaging the same National Parks!
Of course, blamed on global warming, but curiously only destroying the National parks and reserves.
“Today, many entry-level or “character-building” jobs are blocked to the highschool and undergraduate students that often did them in the past.“
Those short term entry level jobs intended for young people to gain work experience are now lifelong careers for illegals raising families and sending remittances back to their home country.
At one point China required university professors to do hard agricultural labor.
That is such a tempting idea.
I published those picture books in 2010.
Nature is beautiful, when well managed.
It was for the previous 15,000 years. When English settlers arrived, they'd already been conditioned to believe those managed landscapes were "Natural" in part because European diseases had long been doing considerable damage to the managers but also because the English academic brain trust had long before adopted wholesale the writings of Titus Lucretius Carus as an explanation for "Creation." Belief had blinded them. They just couldn't see tribal peoples as responsible for having shaped those landscapes, thinking of them as "savages," effectively as part of that Natural landscape.
Interestingly, the Spanish in California saw Indians as "heathens" to be saved by Christ. They were so deluded by their relgious beliefs that they tended to mystefy the way the landscape was shaped. Unfortunately, Spanish first contact reports were heavily redacted by the senior Spanish monks to redact the numbers of grizzly bears and the amount of burning people did for purposes of attracting Mexican ranchers to California. That said official reports were translated first, deluded the American academe (which was conditioned to adopt said English theme) for nearly 100 years until translations of those original first contact reports were published in 2001. In most cases, said academe is slowly coming around pursuant to my having pointed out that systematic fraud some 13 years ago.
In the communist china revolution, all the elites were sent to the country side to shovel manure..................
and that is a fact.
In “our re-educatiion of bureaucrats”, (darn that sounds so gulag’y!) we had better examine our metbods first.
Yes, Indians in North America were actively managing the landscape. They burned lots of “controlled” burns which cleaned the forest.
Old pictures from the end of 19th century clearly show that the trees were sparse, spaced enough to ride a carriage through.
Modern forestry science studies verified, that that is the optimal tree spacing for the best growth and fire control.
There are smart forestry scientists who know what should be done, but they are shut and terrorized by the loud environmental activists (who are supported by the stupid media)!
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