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Monday, March 19. 2018

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“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."


Theodore Roosevelt. He was referring to crony capitalism, but it might apply today to the megalithic permanent bureaucracies.


Posted by The Barrister in Quotidian Quotable Quote (QQQ) at 15:30 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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The power of the 4th Branch of Government stems from unelected rule-making and budgeting by those with constitutional rights to their jobs* and impotent legislators who readily dump the people's work on them. Every president since Wilson (who adored it) has crowed about bureaucracy. Some have tried civil service reform with little success. I would love to see Trump try some in his second term, but don't hold out much hope.

Bureaucracy remains because while we hate what it does collectively, we appreciate what it does for each of us individually. The latter will always win out over the former.

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*https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1978/12/24/when-a-job-becomes-property-its-hard-to-fire-a-civil-servant/d503e8c9-cdfd-4d2f-a594-c2e1912bac1a/?utm_term=.d8a8b6df8b4d
#1 Don on 2018-03-20 03:58 (Reply)
Actually TR was primarily the starting point of the administrative state that Woodrow Wilson established firmly into US government so TR owns a fair share of the government he just described. A mediocre president at best that had little use for the Constitution.
#2 indyjonesouthere on 2018-03-20 15:26 (Reply)

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