Can anyone say "Career Bureaucrat?" That's apparently the career path her experience and "expertise" led her down. Maybe even to the point of "overachieving!"
I was also thinking of the Peter Principle, then stumbled across this by Michael Smith this morning:
'F.A. Hayek's 1944 book, "The Road to Serfdom," notably discusses in one chapter why "the worst get on top." I would recommend this reading not just to the few rational individuals in California who already grasp this concept, but to those who continue to support what might be seen as incompetent leadership. Hayek explains:
John Adams said it very succinctly when he stated, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
And with the secularization of our society and our politics, those that hold an absolute moral conviction are not compelled to join in the revelry of decadence that has become "government service," or as my father was and is keen to say, blood sucking parasites!
Can anyone say "Career Bureaucrat?" That's apparently the career path her experience and "expertise" led her down. Maybe even to the point of "overachieving!"
I was also thinking of the Peter Principle, then stumbled across this by Michael Smith this morning:
'F.A. Hayek's 1944 book, "The Road to Serfdom," notably discusses in one chapter why "the worst get on top." I would recommend this reading not just to the few rational individuals in California who already grasp this concept, but to those who continue to support what might be seen as incompetent leadership. Hayek explains:
“𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑢𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑓𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑢𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑠, 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑠, 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑘, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙-𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑚𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦.”'
Food for thought, of course.
John Adams said it very succinctly when he stated, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
And with the secularization of our society and our politics, those that hold an absolute moral conviction are not compelled to join in the revelry of decadence that has become "government service," or as my father was and is keen to say, blood sucking parasites!
I am not religious and never have, and never WILL, think of working within government. No way, Jose!
Grift and pull, personified.