Jul 29 2007
Just What We Need: More Bureaucrats
The Liberal mindset is truly a caricature of government. In a see of endless, useless red tape and overhead the liberal thinks nothing of increasing the size of the hangars-on who live of the overhead from those productive in society. And make no mistake, Hillary Clinton is a liberal and wants to expand and burnish the image of the bureaucrat, who lives to do be a cog in the vast and gumbersome machine of government:
Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton told college Democrats on Saturday she would create a national academy to train public servants.
“I’m going to be asking a new generation to serve,” she said. “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.”
It is stunning that it has only now occurred to Hillary that these people need training on be civil servants instead of “masters of society”, which is how way too many see themselves. I prefer we determine if we even need the overhead we have now, not plan on training an army of them to sit on their hands and become tenured complainers.
Update: While I may not be a big fan of more bureaucracy, making the one we have better is not something I would fight against. Chris Asch of the program mentioned has dropped us a note (in the comments section) to give the program a good look before we pass judgement. That is ALWAYS a good idea. Here is much of what Chris Asch had to say in the comments below:
This is not a Democratic idea, nor is it a Republican idea. It is an American idea. It promises to revitalize our public sector by developing stronger leadership. Why does this idea appeal to conservatives? For a number of reasons:
1) The Academy will make government better, not bigger.2) The Academy will focus on character, leadership development, and patriotic service.
3) The Academy will challenge American higher education to do more to encourage a sense of duty and civic obligation.
Ironically, our strongest opposition to date generally has come from liberals in higher education who think they already do a fine job of preparing our public leaders. Perhaps you agree with them. We think America deserves better.
I encourage you and your readers to find out more about the movement to build the Public Service Academy by visiting:
http://www.uspublicserviceacademy.org
I am not taking a position one way or the other on this program right now. So I suggest people take Chris up on the offer and check it out for yourselves. – AJStrata
Good Grief. Thanks for the link. As I mentioned on my blog this sounds like a American version of the BBC comedy YES MINISTER in the making
Why do I think Hillary recruiting kids to do her bidding and brain damaged mice are just a continuation of the same story?
AJStrata et al,
While I appreciate the publicity that you have brought to the U.S. Public Service Academy, I must disagree with your assessment of the idea. I understand that you may not trust Sen. Clinton and thus you are concerned about the Academy idea, but I urge you to keep an open mind about it until you can learn more.
There is a movement to build the Academy that extends far beyond Sen. Clinton or her campaign. Sen. Clinton has co-sponsored the Senate legislation, but we have bipartisan support — folks like Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Rep. Tom Davis, as well as many military leaders (including the last three superintendents of West Point) are also behind the bill. They certainly are not interested in building a school to perpetuate government bureaucracy, and neither are we.
This is not a Democratic idea, nor is it a Republican idea. It is an American idea. It promises to revitalize our public sector by developing stronger leadership. Why does this idea appeal to conservatives? For a number of reasons:
1) The Academy will make government better, not bigger.
2) The Academy will focus on character, leadership development, and patriotic service.
3) The Academy will challenge American higher education to do more to encourage a sense of duty and civic obligation.
Ironically, our strongest opposition to date generally has come from liberals in higher education who think they already do a fine job of preparing our public leaders. Perhaps you agree with them. We think America deserves better.
I encourage you and your readers to find out more about the movement to build the Public Service Academy by visiting:
http://www.uspublicserviceacademy.org.
Thanks,
Chris Myers Asch
Oh, America does deserve better. I served time in Hillary Clinton’s Gulag. Somewhere between Purgatory and the system of Soviet labor camps, Hillary spawned the US Public Service Academy, twelve years ago. The Duke lacrosse team fiasco shows that liberal educators have created a phony cultural paradigm that distorts reality. And, nobody exploits phony paradigms, obfuscates the truth, or games the system like the Clintons.
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