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To: Mr. Mojo
Sounds like someone has been reading Asimov again.

The Greeks had bureaucrats, the Romans had them, the Chinese, the Mongols and heaven help protect the Czar from them.

Every government need bureaucrats but forgets to rotate them out every 50 years.

3 posted on 10/07/2019 5:10:41 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster
Speaking of the ancient Romans and on our enemy within, from 1963...

Bureaucracy Kills: A Lesson from Rome

7 posted on 10/07/2019 5:23:59 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: texas booster
The Greeks had bureaucrats, the Romans had them, the Chinese, the Mongols and heaven help protect the Czar from them. Every government need bureaucrats but forgets to rotate them out every 50 years.

In the early years, before civil service, the federal bureaucracy would be mostly replaced with every change of administration. It helped keep things under control.

We also need to limit the offices needing Senate approval to just the cabinet secretaries, and maybe their immediate subordinates. Three years in, and Trump STILL has mostly Obama holdovers running things.

8 posted on 10/07/2019 5:37:40 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: texas booster

Hell, the Brits produced a TV comedy on this very subject four decades ago. You could have seen from reruns on PBS what was going to happen.


11 posted on 10/07/2019 6:07:01 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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