Republicans are more prone to advocate for Free Markets, Libertarians more so, and Democrats not at all. Yes, Republicans are sometimes better than Democrats, but they always seem to want Government to have a hand in things. That we are not able to decide for ourselves.
Articles tagged as
Bureaucracy
Data Point – The Hidden Federal Tax On Us: Regulatory Orgy
by Skip
Taxation by Regulation by unaccountable, unelected, and unassailable bureaucrats. America leads on innovation, and Europe on regulation, or so the conventional wisdom goes. But recently, the US seems to have taken the lead in the latter. . . Regulators seem to know and are now comfortable to be the Administrative State that will rule us … Read more
First Old Glory Bank (No ESG BS) and Now ProLife Bank
In early December, we reported on Old Glory Bank. Not #Woke, no ESG, and no BS. Banking for ordinary people. Well, the idea’s been catching. Based in Dallas, Texas, but available worldwide, ProLife Bank would “honor God’s wealth and inspire change in our world.”
Weaponizing the Bureaucracy: Who Will Protect Us from the Government’s Standing Army?
by Op-Ed
“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”
-James Madison
The American System Is Collapsing.
by Op-Ed
The American system, of “Truth, Justice and the American Way” is collapsing right before our eyes. This collapse is being expedited by those who have been put in power via a corrupted, bought and paid for electoral system and by the mass of un-elected bureaucrats that answer to no one but themselves as the politicians come and go.
The Federal Workforce Must Be Cleaned Out
When people throw around the term Deep State it is instantly polarizing. Two camps emerge — in one, there are those who really don’t pay too much attention to politics or the actual functions of the state: defending the country, upholding a free and fair market, and managing the government’s day-to-day bureaucracy however large or small.
The D.C. Bureaucracy Has It’s Own Term Limits Problem
When was the last time you heard a professional politician make sense? Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee said over the weekend in an interview there should be term limits “for bureaucrats.” The comments were made in an appearance with Steve Hilton on Fox News’ “The Next Revolution.”
Proper Aspirations Under the Constitution
Americans can ask no more from their federal government than what they find in the constitution. This is the crux of the differences in our society today. The Marxists demand government control everything. Conservatives say no, that is not America’s system of government.
Bureaucracy Is Your Enemy … We Can Fix That
Our bureaucracies are unaccountable and unelected. They have come to view themselves as here before elected officials got here and staying when the elected officials leave.
Special Education or Chutes and Ladders?
Governor Chris Sununu is right to be concerned that many special education students are being left behind during remote learning, but will his Emergency Order #48 make a bad situation worse by burying schools in paperwork?
Trump Directs FDA to Approve Chloroquine for Treatment of Chinese Flu
German Measles, Spanish Flu, MERS, and now Chinese Flu. Is catching it a form of cultural appropriation? Finding treatments and cures as well? Like that malaria medicine, I wrote about a few days ago. It’s being fast-tracked to treat Coronavirus patients.
State Housed Displaced Children in facility with Convicted Sex Offender
In desperate need of housing, a father and his two boys were placed in a facility by the state of Massachusetts. They’d recently escaped an abusive relationship and were, until then homeless. Thanks to the benevolent bureaucracy, their troubles were just beginning.
Massachusetts Suspends another 869 Licenses – Over 2000 Since Crash in Randolph Killed Seven
Most ruling class bureaucracies have one purpose. Grow their reach and budget. Not their responsibility or competence. The poster child for which is the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV). Seven people had to die expose their deliberate incompetence.
1,600 Massachusetts Drivers Have Their Licenses Suspended Following Deadly New Hampshire Crash
The tragic deaths of seven people in New Hampshire have dominated the news for weeks. Mowed down by a Ukrainian man in a truck towing a trailer. The investigation has led to a not so startling discovery. Government bureaucracies suck and then people die.
And I think this is delightful news coming from the USDA! Git’em all out of DC!
by Skip
Reformatted, emphasis mine: USDA staffers quit en masse as Trump administration eyes moving offices out of DC Employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are quitting at a rapid clip as Secretary Sonny Perdue prepares to move forward with plans to relocate two offices far outside the Washington, D.C., Beltway. Federal employees at the Economic Research … Read more
The Federal Bureaucracy Must Die
Finally Reining in Federal Agencies: Kiso Vs Wilkie Over the last century Congress has delegated more and more of its lawmaking authority to unaccountable, unelected administrative agencies. The bureaucracies in turn are often insulated from direct supervision by the president. Administrative agencies today issue regulations touching on nearly every aspect of our daily lives. From … Read more
Government, Pain, And Addiction
Could Government policy on pain medication be fueling heroin addiction? We explore issues with the Drug database, morons in the bureaucracy, and a policy-culture that treats regular people in need like criminals.
Data Point – Support for President Obama is falling
by Skip
It has been a while since I put up the Rasmussen Daily Presidential Poll – time to restart: Since his Second Inauguration, his job approval level has been dropping – and fast. Yes, his personal approval levels remain positive (something that I have never figured out). It seems that the scandals that are now engrossing … Read more
Decay Point: Bureaucratic Sclerosis
Alas, as a society decays, its parts shrivel and wither in interestingly tragic ways. An exemplar of such decay occurred just the other day. Big Government’s bureaucratic sclerosis hit a Fire Department so hard that it felt it necessary for its, “…22 firefighters and six vehicles…” to remain idle on the shore and watch a man drown in icy water for 13 minutes, according to the Daily Caller. They “…didn’t launch an inflatable boat until just before he disappeared. The firefighters pulled Brown’s body out of the water roughly an hour after they arrived.”
“‘They followed our ice rescue guidelines pretty much to a T,’ Champaign Deputy Fire Chief Eric Mitchell told The News Gazette.”. Whew! Thank goodness. I’m sure they wouldn’t want to be cited for noncompliance. Allay your fears great citizens of Champaign, Illinois, there will be no lawsuits or fines today, only one less citizen, because our Fire Department followed the rules to a “T”. That sounds like a decent trade off, eh?
An Assault Weapon or Not An Assault Weapon…That is the Question
I’m no expert on firearms but do a fair job of knowing how government works and this “we need to do something” thing plays right into my wheelhouse.
That “something” is the desire of legislators to appear to be capable of managing our lives in every meaningful way, so when a nut plotted, planned and then literally executed his massacre, the people who always feel the need to act like what they do matters got to work.
Long story short, the professional left sees the Newtown killings as a way to re-enact the Clinton Assault weapons ban.
We here at the Grok have already thrown down a mountain of text on the event and the reaction, but we’ve not yet (to my knowledge) actually remarked on the ban itself, and more specifically, on how it would not have changed anything.