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To: TBP

2) make government more efficient by making it more and more reliant on the expertise of disinterested professional bureaucrats.


You do not want an efficient government. Our Founding Fathers put in checks and balances, so things moved SLOWLY AND AND GREAT COST.


31 posted on 01/08/2023 8:40:04 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

“I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is “needed” before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.” ― Barry Goldwater


34 posted on 01/08/2023 12:48:46 PM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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