Bureaucracy Overwhelms Democracy

There are several major issues facing America on which the disagreement between the current handling by the government bureaucracy and the growing voter demand for alternatives now dominates all political debate. The disagreement or gap between the government’s policies and the wishes of the people has accelerated considerably since the November 2010 election. At that time, the people completely changed control of the only arm of government over which they had the opportunity to change control: the house of representatives. But, alas, there has been no change in all the remaining elected, appointed and hired government segments. Unless and until the house of representatives defunds the bureaucracy, there will be no consequence of the November 2010 election on any major issue including:

1. Military engagements (defense spending)
2. Government spending and resulting deficits (discretionary spending)
3. Reductions in government medical care programs (Medicare and Medicaid)
4. Government interference in commerce resulting in loss of economic strength and good jobs (regulatory, legal, bureaucratic, special interests, protected classes and an endless list of laws and their unaccountable consequences)
5. Government financing of incredibly overpriced higher education activities

The winners like to say, “Elections have consequences.” But that is patent silliness. If the military and all the other government bureaucracies and all the protected classes and special interest groups and all the laws on the books and all the courts in the land go unchanged after an election, there are no consequences. There is no change. Democracy fails. The bureaucrats; the millions of hired minions show up the next day and keep doing what they did the day before the election. Just look at the real change six months following the November 2010 election? NIL. Nothing. Nada.

Shutting the government down is not a ploy; it is not a tactic; it has become a survival necessity.

For America to survive the government must go. It matters nary a twit if the cause is an election or a bankruptcy or some other form of dynamic event. This government must be defunded and the freedoms of our founding ideals must be rejuvenated even at the cost of pain and suffering.

A bureaucratic America will not survive. But the bureaucrats will.

A majority of the electorate know it and they did their part in November 2010. But nothing happened.

So we are left with the stark reality of a nation burdened by too much government and an inability to unburden it. That is a depressing situation. Depressing situations bring about hopelessness. All we need to do is observe the Arab spring to see what hopelessness breeds.

America was founded 235 years ago by a group of bold individuals who had had it with bureaucracy.  The kings men, in all their forms - governors, tax collectors, administrators, soldiers and court jesters had a strangle hold on the colonists.  What were they to do?  Vote them out?  The colonists despised the bureaucrats.  They pledged their lives, their fortunes and their honor to dispelling those who sucked the lifeblood from the young nation.  They succeeded against all odds.  And they formed a government and never foresaw that the very tyranny they overcame would rise again as a cancerous growth on their new "limited government" political body.

There is no compatibility between democracy and bureaucracy. Grasp that point and you will have grasped a very basic fundamental. If you believe in democracy you will control bureaucracy with an iron fist. All bureaucracy must be responsive to the voter or democracy ceases.