Bureaucrat Bluster

Once again we hear bluster from the federal bureaucrats: 

Bring them to justice…

...follow them to the ends of the earth...

...leave no rock (stone) unturned…

...let us go about our business…

...evildoers…

...terrorists…

...work around the clock.

Television loves it.  The bureaucrats love it.  All lined up.  All with something to say.  Tough.  Focused.    The big shots have a speech – get in front of the cameras – about what they will do now that the attack is over.  No one, not one of them said a thing about what they were doing the minute or the seconds before the bombs were detonated.  We don’t know where they were – what they were doing – but now we do – they’ve told us – we can count of them.  They’re on the job.  Now, but, in case you missed it - they knew about the older bomber brother.

 

How much do you think these bureaucrats cost the American people?  Well, we decided to do a little research and a little calculation and add it up – in numbers we can all relate to - billions and trillions of dollars.  We figured that we would cover the time period from 2001 (World Trade Center attacks) to 2013 (Boston marathon bombs.)   A thirteen year period of time.  No analysis, just the cost numbers (please focus on the bold numbers) from that impeccable of all sources:  www.whitehouse.gov

 

For each of their departments/agencies/programs/offices:

Department of Justice:   $340 Billion                                                              $ 133 Billion

Department of Homeland Security:  $529 Billion                                           $ 120 Billion

Department of Veteran Affairs:  $1.103 Trillion                                             $ 472 Billion

Department of State:  $ 222 Billion                                                                  $   74 Billion

Department of Defense – Military Programs:  $6.810 Trillion                    $3.531 Trillion

Other Defense Civil Programs:  $635 Billion                                                  $ 345 Billion

Judicial Branch:  $79 Billion                                                                             $   35 Billion

National Aeronautic and Space Administration:  $213 Billion                        $ 171 Billion

Executive Office of the President:  $24 Billion                                               $     3 Billion

 

Bureaucrats and their bluster.  Whoever said, “Talk is Cheap?”   They never encountered the blustering bureaucrats of Washington DC.  Remember, this is just the fed bureaucrats.  What would we do without them?  More pertinent - what would they do without us?  In case you’re wondering, about that other set of numbers; after the first set; on the  right; in italics?  That’s what these same outfits cost US taxpayers in the thirteen years preceding the attacks on the World Trade Center.   

Osama said he would bankrupt the US of A the same way he and his ilk took down the Soviet Union.   The bureaucrats are fulfilling Osama's prophecy - Osama's boys spend peanuts; Obama's bureaucrats spend billions and trillions.  Bernanke runs the printing presses to finance it.  No one will say - STOP.  Big winners besides the bureaucrats?   Their union masters:  AFGE, SEIU, AFSCME and AFL-CIO.  The bureaucrats and politicians tell us that the entitlement costs drive the federal budget deficit.  Baloney.  Look at the numbers above - bureaucrats are a big cost component  - running into each other - always on the job after the fact.  We are spending trillions of dollars on bureaucrats and we can't afford it.  No one can.