Counterweight

Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 4 months ago to Government
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The counterweight to the swamp, to the hidden Government holdovers and senior holders of Civil Service status is the new power structure of the U.S. Government -- and they are determined to get rid of Trump because for all the garbage spewing forth,Trump speaks and has instincts for the basic roots of America
before Soros' attempted revolution to produce a new society composed of legals and illegals most of non-European origin to remake the USA into the image of any European Union country where Christians and Jews are afraid to walk the streets.


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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    There is nothing that "bothers me most." Only that Soros is using Asians and polynesians for his purveyors. That is a fact and is stated as such, not as a personal problem of mine. Please do not infer. The words mean what they mean.Nothing I write "seems'" anything except what the words mean. I'm really not sure what has gotten your goat (I'm not anti-goat) but I see that for some unknown reason the little paragraph I put out under "Counterweight" has crawled under your skin and caused you to infer that I'm a racist and a Trump lover. Your inference is way off target, and all I can say about Trump so far is that he is struggling mightilly to keep his pledges, and if that turns him into a new Fascist of the Mussolini type in your eyes, so be it.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    My now ventured opinion based on my past Alabama Deportment Of Corrections officer training sessions, Soros was shocked due to a sociopath having an abnormal conscience~if any at all.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 4 months ago
    I voted for trump and he is actually doing what he said he would do when he campaigned. That pretty much NEVER happens in politics today. I hope he lasts for the 4 years and gets as much swamp draining done as possible.
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  • Posted by $ WilliamShipley 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The Civil Service act of 1883 removed most of the government jobs from being politically appointed and made them merit based. It also isolated them from control.

    It was put in after Garfield was assassinated in 1881 by a disappointed job seeker.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think that it was probably assumed by the founders that if the bureaucrats got out of line the executive branch could take them out to the woodshed. For some reason, possibly unions, the executive has failed to do that for a number of years, hence the growth of a bureauocracy that does damn well as it pleases as a 4th branch of government, wielding a power through income that it doesn't deserve and was never intended to.
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  • Posted by $ WilliamShipley 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I don't want to have every aspect of my financial and personal life controlled by bureaucrats who are responsive to no external control. Who only exist to increase the size of their departments and budgets.

    The current system was developed to keep the entire mechanism of government from being handed out as political spoils. It has evolved into a system that isolates government workers from control or oversight. What is the point of having elections if the government doesn't have to pay attention to the people who are elected?
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  • Posted by $ CBJ 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Re: “Bureaucracy has a bad name, but it is the foundation of a democratic republic. Unlike other societies where family, religion, and region matter, in a bureaucracy, each piece of paper moves from desk to desk on its own merits.” Bureaucracy is anything but the foundation of a democratic republic. It is, however, a foundational attribute of the worst dictatorships of the 20th Century as well as some that came earlier. Bureaucrats have wide latitude in interpreting laws through the filter of their own political convictions, and (as the public is beginning to realize) they frequently disregard those laws and even their own internal procedures with impunity to advance their political agendas. Civil service “reforms” and public employee unions have led to entrenched bureaucracies that are forever attempting to expand their scope, size and power. They make up most of today’s “swamp”, and our only recourse is to drain it by instituting procedures that provide a healthy turnover for those who administer our laws. Bureaucratic term limits, perhaps.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Mike, I find your remarks insulting.
    You are taking sentences out of context. I am pointing out facts. Soros has found that fodder for his evil intents are best and easiest when they are not Europeans.That's merely the truth. If you are afraid of the truth because you might be called a racist, you're the one without a place here. I suppose you never heard of a bureaucrat with a political agenda? One that was so loyal to Obama that he/she was willing to work in such a way as to subvert any agenda that doesn't jibe with Obama's?. As to Trump, "Of two evils pick the lesser" may not be A.R.'s ideal, but it works as good as can be worked in today's world. If a John Galt type politician somehow did arise out of the muck, and into politics, (Unlikely) how long would he last? Definitely not as long as to be nominated. Your choice was between Clinton and Trump, your choice was one or the other or abstention.Other than Trump the other alternatives were way worse. .Mike, I do find your posts to be insightful and intelligent, but if you have an axe to grind, you're grinding it on the wrong person. For now, I'll attribute your post to a bad breakfast.
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    Posted by $ MikeMarotta 7 years, 4 months ago
    Clearly you do not realize that trusting the President's "instincts" is what the bad guys in Atlas Shrugged would have said. Time and again, it is revealed that President Trump is a post-modernist whose policies do not extend beyond the range of the moment. Time and again, people who in the past were small government conservatives join the big government bandwagon repeating the Big Lie that the President will "drain the swamp."

    Just what do you think a "senior civil service" person is? They are not poilitical appointees. They take tests to get those jobs. They hold them regardless of the Administration specifically because we want the bureaucracy to be independent of the administratiion. Bureaucracy has a bad name, but it is the foundation of a democratic republic. Unlike other societies where family, religion, and region matter, in a bureaucracy, each piece of paper moves from desk to desk on its own merits.

    Your racism has no place here: "... legals and illegals most of non-European origin..." As you seem not to care whether they are legal or illegal, what seems to bother you most is that they are not Europeans. Mysefl, all I care about is that they work hard, whoever they are. And I met a lot of illegals who do work two jobs.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It was said by Soros that Soros collaberated with the NAZI'S in WWII.
    Yes, in 1945, when real Nazis were perpetrating the real Holocaust, George Soros, as a teenager, was actually helping real Nazis confiscate the real property of real, about-to-be-“exterminated” Jews in his native Budapest, Hungary.

    And no, this actual Nazi collaboration by a young George Soros was not an obscure tidbit dug up by opposition researchers. George Soros freely admitted his actions in the now-infamous Steve Kroft interview of 1998. Soros was shocked that the interview was so upsetting to so many and endeavored greatly to put the controversy to rest.
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