Currents
November 2016
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The Case for Bureaucracy
I
n the past this writer has
made the case for Citizen
Government, similar to the
founding government; one was a
temporary official, whilst working
at a trade or profession to earn a
living.
The argument being that folks
from the Community can best
see and fulfill the Community's
needs from Washington. The
argument against this type of
government has been that it creates a Bureaucratic Class. Officials who are unelected, thus
unaccountable. Moreover, they
will lead the naïve elected officials
to benefit the Bureaucracy not
the nation.
The last four presidential elections have served to quench that
desire.
Michelle Bauchman,
Sarah Pallin, Donald Trump. Not
to mention the incumbents who
are medical doctors who, at least
publicly, prove they are ignorant,
despite decades of education.
We quite possibly benefit from
a Political and Bureaucratic Class.
People educated in foreign
affairs, economics, and public
policy. But it would need to be
fully funded, probably from
defense spending. No more Reaganesk theories on how to fight
fraud and abuse.
Since the Reagan Administration's desire to “Starve the Beast”
became the GOP mantra, the
conservative political mindset
and rhetoric has been dependent
upon non sequiturs. The main
strategy goes like this: Government spends money on things
that do not benefit our conservative values and it wastes billions
through fraud, waste and abuse.
Therefore, we must starve the
beast of resources. Which is a
non sequitur. One cannot fight
fraud, waste and abuse while
decreasing the number of
employees needed to ensure
quality service and investigate
fraud.
For example, in a recent
speech, Donald J. Trump revived
a Republican plan to reduce the
federal work force in part by
replacing only some of the
employees who retire as a way to
pay for increased military spending and to avoid exceeding limits
on the size of the federal budget.
He also said he wanted to raise
money by eliminating waste, collecting unpaid taxes and stopping improper tax payments.
But these two goals - decreasing the federal work force and
avoiding government excess and
mismanagement - are actually
contradictory, despite all the
political rhetoric about the perils
of bureaucracy. Reducing the size
of government, especially in the
arbitrary manner of not replacing
retirees, makes it harder, not easier, to achieve cost-saving goals,
because it gets rid of the very
professionals who are needed to
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