30 / July
30 / July
A West Point for Bureaucrats?

She calls them "public servants." We know them as bureaucrats. "I think just like our military academies, we need to give a totally all-paid education to young men and women who will serve their country in a public service position," Hillary Clinton told a South Carolina audience. Will they awake to taps at 5 a.m.? Will they have curfew? Will freshmen get the plebe treatment? I doubt that is what Hillary Clinton has in mind. We serve bureaucrats. They don't serve us. Why do people need further inducements to high-paid Washington jobs that facilitate higher-paid Washington jobs in think tanks and lobbying firms? We call soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines "servicemen" because they get paid less and sacrifice more. They serve. It's insulting, and indicative of a state-worshipping worldview, to equate military service with the "public servants" who act as if we are their servants.

posted at 12:11 AM
Comments

the woman is a commie.

Posted by: tagmnbagm on July 30, 2007 06:46 AM

Is there some sort of special skill that the folks at Social Security, IRS, or State cannot acquire on their own nickel like the rest of us? Is there a shortage of government workers? Is she just itching to tweak big government to smooth the skids into socialism? I'm not over fond of the repubs, but who else is there to vote for?

Posted by: Webster on July 30, 2007 10:00 AM

"I'm not over fond of the repubs, but who else is there to vote for?" Without questioning the premise underlying such a question, it seems pretty obvious that the Republicans know this all too well and count on it to win. We are not Gore. We are not Kerry. We are not Hillary.

Posted by: Dan Flynn on July 30, 2007 10:07 AM

The problem for the Dems is that they really don't have any serious candidates. High profile, you bet, but light on the issues and left leaning social engineers all.

This opens things up for a relatively weak field of GOPers.

Posted by: asdf on July 30, 2007 10:37 AM

We are not Gore. We are not Kerry. We are not Hillary.

Isn't this the worst aspect of the "two-party system?" Of course the system is a chimera fed by the big parties. The danger of many parties is that the would-be slaves to government would garner a plurality on election day. What is one to do? "I am not Obama" is a pretty compelling slogan.

Posted by: Webster on July 30, 2007 10:58 AM

I hate this "lesser of two evils" stuff but, there it is.

Posted by: asdf on July 30, 2007 11:12 AM

Why vote for the lesser of two evils? Cthulhu for President!

Posted by: obi juan on July 30, 2007 08:03 PM

OBAMAMANIA!!!

OBAMAMANIA!!!

OBAMAMANIA!!!

Posted by: NatureIsGod on July 31, 2007 12:09 AM

This idea by Ms. Rotten could be termed ‘stacking the deck’ as typically, government employee bureaucrats are liberal anyway. They leave liberal institutions to enter well paid no heavy lifting government jobs with their world view that bigger and more powerful government is the answer to everything. This is exactly what Hitlery believes. So now we need to make it easier for recruits? On our dime?! This woman has got to go.

Posted by: asdf on July 31, 2007 02:37 PM

Stump and vote for Ron Paul and make campaign contributions to him.

If we give him our full support and propel him along then maybe at least the terms of debate can be shifted in protest against the Republicrat political tyranny that rules us.

Posted by: Bruce Wayne on July 31, 2007 05:54 PM

That not dead which eternal lie...
And in strange aeons even death may die.

H.P. Lovecraft for Prez!
S.T. Joshi could be his campaign manager.

Thanks Obi Juan, you just made my day.

Posted by: Ancient Mariner on August 1, 2007 09:31 AM
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