Shutdown: The Audacity of Bureaucrats

American Thinker ^ | 10/7/2013 | C. Edmund Wright

[markomalley]

What the heck is on in the mind of someone who thinks the very oceans must be closed if they are not there to administer proper enjoyment of it? This week, it's a pertinent question.

Part of the answer is that many bureaucrats are people who, deep down inside, know they can't achieve anything and/or are afraid to try. This is why they become bureaucrats in the first place.  Why else would they agree to work in a cubicle each day, in a job with a very low ceiling, tasked with torturing the very businesses and taxpayers who support their pathetic vocation? Consider: bureaucrats -- and for this purpose I include the foot soldiers they dispatch to carry out their mischief -- are much like low level referees.  They are given authority over people who are actually more accomplished than they are in a certain endeavor simply because of that cubicle, a PC, and books of regulations -- or perhaps some absurd badge on a cheap blue shirt and a government-issued sedan or pickup truck. It's their equivalent of the striped shirt and whistle.

Yes, I know, if you have a bureaucratic mindset, or are related to someone who has, you are horrified that I am generalizing.

[Joe Boucher]

Hard not to look upon federal gub mint employees and institutions with contempt at this point.
Worthless bunch of scum.

[Truth29]

The Obama foot soldiers must choose. http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/what-i-saw-at-the-coup/

[napscoordinator]

Secretary of Defense has ordered all DOD personnel back to work. Only a small amount of people out of work in the government now. Apparently Judi monument security. This shut down is over.

[markomalley]

Secretary of Defense has ordered all DOD personnel back to work. Only a small amount of people out of work in the government now. Apparently Judi monument security. This shut down is over.

Nice that he can "deem" that there is money there to pay those civilians.

[DaveA37]

The Repubs will pass the bill to pay the DOD folks and nobody will even notice that they have been away.

Many of these people are just like anyone else who has a job to do and carrys that job out as instructed. Certainly there are also those (liberals no doubt) that do their job with “Gusto” and care not where the chips may fall as long as they get recognized by their employeer and are considered for higher lofts within the gubmint.

[HomeAtLast]

Is it possible that you can't remain a good person and become a thriving government drone? Ask Lois Lerner.

Mind your manners, Wright! That's Her Majesty Queen Lois the Fifth.

[GOPJ]

Carry this message everywhere. Spread it far and wide.

The people who were happy to expend hundreds of Mexican lives and several Americans’ in Fast & Furious to pump up phony gun crime statistics,

the people who left 40 Americans to fend for themselves and four to die in Benghazi to avoid political embarrassment,

the people who brought down the IRS on Americans merely exercising their rights to free speech,

the people who sold out Seal Team Six to keep them silent about the bin Laden raid,

the people who threatened to arrest 80 year old WWII veterans for merely looking at their own memorial, the people who put up a Berlin wall to keep Americans out of George Washington’s house(!)

- these people will not hesitate to use their control over your health care - that you gave them - to inflict pain when it suits their political purposes.

4 posted on Monday, October 07, 2013 8:50:47 AM by Paine in the Neck

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