Posted on 05/15/2014 6:13:13 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Government agencies always consume wealth that was produced by taxpayers, often far in excess of any benefits the agencies create.
Many are worse than that – not only do they consume wealth, but they also get in the way of the efforts of productive people. Double whammy on society.
And some agencies that waste resources and inhibit production do still more reprehensible things, like terrorizing people or acting hypocritically.
It’s in the last group that, I submit, we have our contenders for the worst federal agency.
One of them is unquestionably the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, whose arrogance and hypocrisy recently led to a scalding rebuke from the Sixth Circuit in EEOC v. Kaplan.
But before going into that case, let’s take a look at this agency. It was established in 1965 to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s prohibition against discrimination in employment. That is the law that its famous sponsor, Senator Hubert Humphrey, denied would lead to employment quotas. Responding to criticism of the bill that it might require employers to hire by quotas to avoid running afoul of the law, Humphrey replied,
“If the Senator can find in Title VII any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or quota related to color, race, religion, or national origin, I will start eating the pages one after another, because it is not in there.”
Unfortunately, just as the words of the Constitution have been ignored by people intent upon promoting a big government agenda, so too with the words of the Civil Rights Act.
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Actually, any one of them that contains the word “Federal” in them.
I hope the author realizes the stiff competition the EEOC is up against.
How about the office of the pResident?
Coincidentally, I recently considered posting a vanity about which FedGov agency FReepers think is the worst. It really would be a tough choice, with so many deserving options: VA, IRS, EPA, Justice, ATF, BLM...seriously, is there even one that isn’t corrupt, incompetent or both?
in the words of Dune author, Frank Herbert:
“Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. This is the danger of entrenched bureaucracy to its subject population. Even the spoils systems are preferable because levels of tolerance are lower and the corrupt can be thrown out periodically. Entrenched bureaucracy seldom can be touched short of violence. Beware when Civil Service and Military join hands.”
A political philosopher (I don’t recall his name) formulated a theory of bureaucracies. He described their life cycle as having three stages:
1) The bureaucracy is created to serve an alleged need of the people. Its mission may be clear and its apparatus novel but streamlined.
2) It grows as it ostensibly meets its charter and comes to realize that its continued existence, which provides security for its employees, is dependent on an ongoing need for its services. So it begins to expand its scope far beyond its charter in an attempt to justify its existence.
3) By now it has grown so large that it is no longer concerned with producing results. It consumes so many resources and provides so many sinecures for incompetents that it becomes a force all its own. It then imposes its will on the populace, secure in the knowledge that it needn’t beg for resources any more; it is powerful enough to just take them.
Or, in short ...
1) Bureaucracies are created to serve the people.
2) Bureaucracies evolve to serve themselves.
3) Bureaucracies end up being served by the people.
Therefore, bureaucracies are the enemies of liberty and refuges for parasites.
Nope. BATF....always has been, always will be the bottom of the barrel for everyone. They get all the rejects in federal service.
So-called “Affirmative Action” is nothing more than STATE-SANCTIONED RACISM.
And it’s Racial Profiling.
Liberals never did understand ethics very well...
My nominee: Reid’s “US” Senate.
Bureaucracies have been around since the dawn of civilization. Archeologists long ago found the clay tablets in their excavations of Sumer and Ur. The clay tablets were written by the Scribes, who were the lawyers of those times.
The 1964 Civil Rights Act was challenged and found constitutional under the commerce clause. Racial segregation affected interstate commerce.
In 1942, Scotus found congress could enact statutes to regulate anything that remotely affected interstate commerce.
In the 1930s, Scotus came to the conclusion that it would not fill the void of protecting state interests under the 10th Amendment.
In 1913, the American people fell for progressive snake oil and ratified the 17th Amendment. It did away with the constitution's structural protection of state interests.
Article V.
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