Posted on 03/30/2024 4:15:13 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Elected officials such as congressmen, governors, mayors, and even presidents are at the mercy of those who run and control these bureaus and agencies.
Bureaus and agencies administer the laws and regulations passed by Congress. They also administer executive orders issued by the President. They were created out of necessity. No one man or woman can effectively oversee the daily control necessary to ensure the laws and rules are carried out. The people that manage these departments are not elected. They have been hired based on experience or favoritism. They have been appointed based on nepotism or party affiliation. In most cases the actual controlling management have been on the job for a long period of time. They are skilled at managing and manipulating the established system as well as maintaining a protective shield against political climate change. They know which way the wind blows.
As a result of the embedded bureaucratic structure, elected officials such as congressmen, governors, mayors, and even presidents are at the mercy of those who run and control these bureaus and agencies. Presidential appointments, especially at the cabinet and department head levels are merely figureheads. They generally have no understanding of system processes or managerial requirements in the department they are appointed to. The departments are so large even someone with strong administrative skills will flounder in their attempt to control. They need to rely on those bureaucrats with well-established experience on the job, to tell them the truth and to push through the decisions made by the President. Congressmen pass laws, but few if any are involved in the administration of the laws and are generally oblivious to many bureaucratic regulations that are enacted to support a law. Good intentions of a law that is passed are many times thwarted by unforeseen regulations
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I would bet that 95% of bureaucRATs are democRATs.
This bill provides FY2024 appropriations for several federal departments and agencies. It also extends several expiring programs and authorities, including several public health programs.
Specifically, the bill includes 6 of the 12 regular FY2024 appropriations bills:
The bill also modifies the Compacts of Free Association that govern the relationship between the United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau.
Making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.
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It’s called Deep State for good reason.
Per the BLS from its monthly employmemt report for February that was released three weeks ago...
“Government employment rose by 52,000 in February, about the same as the prior 12-month
average gain (+53,000). Over the month, employment continued to trend up in local
government, excluding education (+26,000) and federal government (+9,000).”
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
When Biden says, “ We have to save Democracy.” Put on your Democrat decoder ring and you can see what he is really saying:
“We have to save the Bureaucracy.”
Deep State über alles.
“He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance” - Declaration of Independence
Thanks. BUMP!
You’re probably right.
Indeed.
That’s true.
A president needs Senate consent for not just cabinet secretaries, but also many layers of under-secretaries. Trump finished his term with only a fraction of his picks getting approved.
We need far fewer jobs needing approval, plus the ability to fire people.
The bureaucracy will not obey someone who cannot fire and replace them.
I’m getting old. We should break them on the wheel, disembowel them and hang them.
List of the 1400 positions needing Senate confirmation.
We need our republic restored.
And check out what gets exempted.
Truly Deep State über Alles.
The Republic is not a republic as long as thousands of little emperors can do as they please and cannot be fired.
We have the federal courts in real control, because the president cannot fire a disobedient bureaucrat, but a judge can put him in jail for defying a judge’s order.
Back in Andrew Jackson’s time, it was expected that an incoming president would fire much of the senior bureaucrats and replace them with his own people.
The Deep State depends on stability.
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