Slicef18 wrote:
This is very true, and a result of becoming too large. The larger an organization becomes, the more inefficient it's operation, and it's message reason to exist becomes muddied. Eventually it's mission is to not loose jobs .
That is very well put and with the part I've put in bold text you've just nailed what has happened to us, slice.
Our own Congressional district is a prime example. The primary definition of "federal government" for all the political and business leaders and all the media in our Congressional district is federal spending to give us local jobs.
The decisions to appropriate and allocate money for our district have only one goal and that's to maintain this artificial economy being kept alive with federal spending.
Whenever anyone even questions the wisdom or the need for the local military installations to receive more federal money, there is an automatic groundswell of local opposition thrown up to challenge that questioning. No matter the merits. The politicians and business leaders make speeches opposing any attempt to reduce federal spending. And the newspaper and Channel 3 run storys and editorials telling us how that will "hurt the national defense" (because the local media are really just mouthpieces for the same business leaders who buy advertising from them). It's always that it's "hurting the national defense". When we all know what it really is. It's jobs and protecting the economic base of our area which is now dependent for it's survival on federal spending.
But it's like this across the country. The economies of most Congressional districts now rely on the federal pork barrel in one way or another. It's become a giant parasite that without it all those local economies would suffer and many would collapse (including our own).
We've created this federal spending monster and frankly it's so big and out of control now that I don't see how it can ever be reigned in.
So now we have a situation in which our elected legislators (like Jeff Miller) in Congress have one main job description. And that's to get federal money spent in each's district. That's all Jeff Miller has to do to keep his job for as long as he wants. Nothing else is significant.
It all has so very little to do with the constant drivel we're being fed from the media that "it all boils down to democrats being commies and republicans being job creators". Or "democrats trying to protect the poor people from being run over by the rich people", or any of the rest of that inane claptrap we all want to hear.
Home
