No longer servants. No longer civil. This is the real definition of the unelected bureaucracy that now has enveloped what used to be the free states, the free country formerly known as the United States of America. As Larry Arn so succinctly put in his November 2024 Imprimis article: “In 1930 government consumed 12 percent of the GDP of the nation.” … Today government controls 50% of the nation’s wealth.
Let that sink in. Prior to the New Deal, the rise of Hitler, and WW2 – almost 90% of the wealth in this country was in the hands of the people. Now clearly half of all the wealth is in the hands of the state – and as Arn further concludes – “this gigantic transfer of wealth and resources from the private to the public sector defies the meaning of a free society.” Unelected bureaucrats and the “government” controls the wealth of the country. So, we have morphed in a relatively short time from a bottom up to a top down country. We have in effect lost our freedom to an oppressive government that no longer is responsive to the people – but instead is led by special interests and progressive policies that have not met a rule or regulation they haven’t liked – especially if they can carve out some sort of payment or job for their fellow unelected bureaucrats.
The sin of progressivism and far left socialism is clear – it grows without ever actually solving problems. It simply adds more regulations, more bureaucracy, more layers of government – more waste and unaccountability. Here we are.
With Trump’s landslide – and yes, it is a landslide victory when a Republican can win the popular vote as well as the electoral college vote – against the incredible slings and arrows of the administrative state aimed at him: Spying on him, Lies about ties to Russia, endless lawfare, comparison to Hitler – and a Media clearly biased to the point that they censored a very incriminating Laptop that Joe Biden – aka the “Big Guy” – was getting 10% of the graft in pay for play deals with China, Ukraine and other nations – enemy and allies alike – but on the other side clearly 80% or more of the reporting was negative press for Trump with almost none for the Democrats Biden/Harris.
So, in response we have Elon and Vivek, two conservative (or at least moderate) billionaires, who are now going to be part of an unpaid department DOGE – Department of “Government Efficiency” – which is an oxymoron – since there is nothing about government that is efficient. The hope is that many of the departments like Education can effectively be returned to the states and it can be pruned to say a couple of experts and AI. Yes, we are indeed stuck with Social Security and Medicare for our aging population. The only answer here is cut everywhere else we can – reduce regulations to the bare minimum – and grow the GDP to pay for entitlements we cannot cut.
The ultimate goal actually is to make Civil Servants – well, civil. Put say 75% of the wealth back into the hands of the people. It’s a fine dream. Not holding my breath.