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Let’s assume the President or even top aides had nothing to do with the IRS scrutinizing certain conservative groups who generally are opposed to big government and hence big bureaucracy.
But rather assume that government workers concerned with their jobs and their good package of pay and benefits had a strong vested interest in keeping both.
Is it too far fetched to ask if some bureaucrats would act on their own to preserve the status quo? Today it is the IRS, but tomorrow you have a whole new bureaucracy with a vested interest in Obamacare and all its complexity and soon with millions of Americans enjoying their new entitlement.
This is scary stuff. The story of bureaucrats using their considerable power in their best interest to suppress those who criticize is something I read about in the GDR museum in Berlin.
If banks can be too big to fail as is feared by many on the left, can’t government be too big to work and manage?
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Dick,
I agree with Jack B. Mistrust of government just took a major leap forward with the 3 issues facing the Obama administration currently. It will take and act of God to get them out of this unscathed. And, regardless of the outcome this administration will forever go down as one of lies and misdirection all to the detriment of the American public who are the recipients of their folly.
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Same, old same old. If you don’t agree with me, you are evil, the devil. You can tell what Americans believe, no regular people feign surprise like democratic politicians, or blurt stupid criticism like the republicans. We know. Ever get a letter from the IRS? Know the fear…
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This all goes back to a previous argument on this blog about mistrust of government. Just a little more grist for the mill.
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