A friend lives in a long-established residential subdivision. He found out that the storm drainage in his back yard is regulated by the Corps of Engineers. To do landscaping he was required to obtain a permit backed up by a $10,000 engineering study. But he was told by the Corps that they rarely grant approval. All this for a ditch that is wet a few times of the year.
Fascism is when private resources remain under private ownership but government regulation are so onerous that the private owner loses control in favor of some government official.
Wake up America!
One of the main roots of such utter foolishness is the ease with which government can create almost unlimited amounts of money out of thin air. Near-infinite money buys near-infinite government, and a bureaucracy that is generously finded can entertain its fantasy dreams about how it can expand its power and control over its realm.
Every day more people are coming to the judgment that a carefully organized effort to repair the constitution via the States’ power to propose and ratify amendments has less risk to our liberty and prosperity than the present trajectory of the federal government and especially the federal bureaucracy.
The first order of business of an Article V Convention must be to limit government’s ability to spend and create near-infinite amounts of money.
Firing lots of Federal workers would in the long term increase the country’s productivity. All this lily-gilding (at best) doesn’t produce something truly good.
I could see some kind of ridiculously generous severance package, but ushering a truly tangible number off the taxpaid payroll will help, not hinder, America’s productivity.