Why you never see a member of the Deep State on food stamps. Once again, the British television series from the eighties, Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, provide a master class on how government functions for the well being of the bureaucrats who run it.
Deep State Eternal Employment
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
And, to meet the expanding needs of those to whom they bear true faith and allegiance: the elites/oligarchs.
It seems as if ‘conservative’ judges pretty much fall in line shortly after joining SCOTUS, too.
Actually, I qualified for food stamps for a long time. I just had too much pride to apply and accept it because we were able to make it work with proper budgeting and purchases.
An example of good pride!
The majority of people who qualify for SNAP these days do not apply for the program.
Satire this was not, because it’s real life.
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Attorney Robert Barnes says that there are judges who are corporatists. He has been critical of the Federalist Society and the kind of judges they recommend. Toward the tail end of yesterday’s Viva-Barnes livestream at around the 2:05.xx mark he goes into SCOTUS where he brings up the corporatist wing of the court.
I don’t know what ‘corporatist’ means as he uses it. I do know that Republican judges are like Republican legislators: a disappointment more often than not, and ultimately ineffective.
Satire this was not, because it’s real life.
My grandfather was a federal employee (19 years), my uncle was as well (military and civilian, 31 years, not counting his time in the Naval Reserve), as is my brother (35 years and counting). Neither my grandfather nor my uncle landed any board seats on retiring. My brother shuffles out in a couple of years, and he’s not anticipating anything like that. The big problem with public employees at all levels is that their compensation is not transparent to the public or to elected officials. (Another problem is overstaffing of offices). I don’t believe the ratio of public-sector employees to private sector employees has increased in the last 40-odd years.
Bureaucracy: Leviathan on quaaludes…until utilized against wrongthink, whereupon injustice is swiftly delivered.
A biting quote on bureaucracy from the “flamboyant” Wilde; it cuts to the reality of the ever-expanding state.
MISSION CREEP Levity
Incorporated vs unincorporated districts: the city or town now not taking care of what the county govt was formerly responsible for ignoring.
What of those who milk the public sector for decades by climbing the civil servant ladder and not even creating the smallest meaningful ripple of good in their decade-long coveted roles. Then one day jump to the private sector for the lucrative salaries on the back of their so-called years of high-profile government roles and “expertise”. I’m talking ex-politicians and high-profile government careerist. They’re the worse of the lot.
Art, my comment applied not to the soldiers and NCO’s of the bureaucracy but to the higher level officers, the generals. these are the ones who get on the gravy train when they retire.
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IIRC it has to do with those who look out for the interests of the establishment.
It happens even in small towns: first, a mayor and a stipend..then, salaried..later, a vice mayor..staff grows..expenses blossom..rumors of misfeasance/malfeasance..town council is formed, stipend, soon salaried…eventually, city manager hired from out of state to run things while mayor remains on as fully paid figurehead…city manager mismanages and moves on to higher paying gig, leaving chaos…and on and on.
Art, my comment applied not to the soldiers and NCO’s of the bureaucracy but to the higher level officers, the generals. these are the ones who get on the gravy train when they retire.
I hear you. The thing about elites is that they’re not very numerous. In the federal government, I suspect most of the people getting on the gravy train are quondam discretionary appointees, not civil servants. Could be wrong. I note that the three relations I mentioned had an have fairly handsome positions in federal employment. My uncle retired from the Navy a captain and he was the director of laboratory as a civilian. In his retirement, he’s had a solo consulting business he ran out of his house, sold real estate, and had a number of avocations.
Part of it is the culture. Compare Harry Truman’s retirement with Gerald Ford’s. Truman played piano for > 20 years in the whorehouse of Kansas City politics; the Prendergast family were not only his employers, but his personal friends. He was enough of a patriot that he thought it unseemly to accept emoluments from private parties derived from his having held a prominent political job. We could do a certain amount with federal statutory law to impede this sort of activity. The trouble is, the law would have to be passed by our vile federal legislature. Our legislators are vile because that’s the sort of person who wants to be in elective office these days and the general public just assents to it.