I agree, but you'd have to have a political party that gives a sh!t to do anything about it.
Just to make sure I got it right: the actions of this huge omnipotent 'Bureaucracy" are both unified and conspiratorial?
The 2004 American League Championship Series was won by the Yankees:
10-07
03-01
19-08
04-06
04-05
02-04
03-10
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45-41
The Yankees scored 4 more runs than the Red Sox.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving, for example, is heavily funded by government grants (in at least one state-North Carolina) but operates as a private non-profit lobby for every feel good form of government management it can feasibly support.
Thus, checkpoints, seatbelt laws, child safety seats, etc.( regardless of public perceptions of their value) are all supported by a quasi-government organization lobbying government for implementation.
Any honest real market need would not require support from a government treasury not to mention conflict of interest aspects. (Should an organization which benefits from government grants be allowed to advocate positions that clearly benefit government bureaucracies?)
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Some might argue that the Founders purposely created a form of government that wouldn't be subject to the whims and mob mentality of a democracy. By doing so, they created a government that has been more or less stable for better than 225 years. How many other countries can really say that?
While I don't think the Founders had an inefficient bureaucracy in mind, the stability part is certainly there.
Not to be picky.....but it's a representative democracy.
Consider that those who run for office are egotistical in nature. Sure, many have hopes, but it's really a personal fulfillment thing to run for office, get elected, and weild and use power. There are no selfless beings in office.
The people (voters and squeaky wheels) naturally create the Bureaucracy from the gathering of egos. Calls of "I want this, and I want that" (shrimp museums in Kansas, a guy who sits around and knows everything there is to know about potatoes) feeds the ego of the politician ("he's a hero!"), and the expansion of the Bureaucracy in the form of new agencies and additional staff.
It's sort of a self-sustaining entity, but involves many players, not just politicians.
I'm sure that the collection of data and such was brought upon us by some sort of initial citizen's group inquiry or demand that simply grew into the monster it is today. I call it the Curse of the Ignorant Masses.
I didn't make my point clear. You have no idea how happy I would be if gov't employees were all smart enough to operate a conspiracy to oppress the citizenry and efficient enough to keep it a secret.