One big problem we have with government is the bureaucrats and “wonks” who are those who write the regulations and spend the money. I have worked with DOE since it existed and we call those folks the “we-bees” that is those who are there now and will be there 5-10 years from now. They don’t care who is in the administration they only care about preserving their own jobs. They are the ones who make policy not our elected persons in the executive and legislative branches of government. Until we have a way to change those long term bureaucrats we will have a very hard time changing policy.
We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.- The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
Now that the Congressional Budget Office has rescored the six-month budget deal that the GOP and the Dems entered into to avoid an unseemly government shutdown before election day, the GOP isn’t pleased.
That’s because the new budget numbers say that since spending was lower than projected in fiscal 2012 then spending has to be higher in 2013.
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We had corruption of a certain identifiable kind under patronage but we also had the unrecognised advantage that it took a while for the new crop of bastiches to figure out exactly just how things work and a while longer to get things moving in the currently desired direction. Since the currently desired direction was not necessarily the same direction as the previous administrations the net effect was very little movement against the we
With the Civil Service System we get all powerful bureaucrats that go the way of 99% of the people placed in that circumstance. In other words, they become corrupted by the system as the system assimilates them.