Once you read the 3rd paragraph, as stated, the rest of the article makes perfect sense, as does the behavior of all of our elected officials.

Much like any outrageous spending (nearly all of it) and nearly all of the obscene psyops meant to have the American voters look the other way with an "ooooh, look over here", it all comes down to "avoiding accountability to maximize political return".

Unfortunately, most Americans have jobs, families, and kids, and stay quite busy. It's difficult to get accurate information.

Enjoy!

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Why the laws of government physics remain undefeated | Blaze Media

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Mitchell's First Theorem, which describes how Washington actually functions, could be carved above every federal agency door. Politics rewards the spending of other people's money for other people's benefit. The entire system is designed to avoid accountability and to maximize political reward. Once you accept that incentives drive outcomes, the rest of the theorems follow naturally.

The Second and Third Theorems make this point bluntly. Any new program will grow, metastasize, and waste money. Centralization magnifies inefficiency because bureaucracies face no competition, no profit-and-loss constraint, and no personal consequences for failure. When the private sector gets something wrong, it pays for its mistake. When government gets something wrong, it demands a larger budget

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Centralization magnifies inefficiency because bureaucracies face no competition, no profit-and-loss constraint, and no personal consequences for failure.

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Yet there is a lib on another thread arguing that there is as many, or even a larger percentage of, employees in the private sector who are barnacles, and it's not hard to get rid of deadwood in the government! It's so absurd, it doesn't deserve a response!

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Once you read the 3rd paragraph, as stated, the rest of the article makes perfect sense, as does the behavior of all of our elected officials.

Much like any outrageous spending (nearly all of it) and nearly all of the obscene psyops meant to have the American voters look the other way with an "ooooh, look over here", it all comes down to "avoiding accountability to maximize political return".

Unfortunately, most Americans have jobs, families, and kids, and stay quite busy. It's difficult to get accurate information.

Enjoy!

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Samuel Adams

• How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

Well this sounds familiar. In a centralized authoritarian government words are ill defined with no real opposition with a complicit corrupted MSM spreading propaganda. With strong state governments most states would not adhere to the insanity.

• It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

In a country with a strong state government, those states most successful will steer the rest towards success. Centralized government in the formation of the Dept. of Education destroyed our educational system which will take decades to rebuild.

Samual Adams was an Anti-Federalist and seems to have predicted what we see today in the Democratic Party leadership and leftist Federal Judges corrupting the Constitution's separation of powers of civil nation and rule of law relies on.

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases:

If it moves, tax it.
If it keeps moving, regulate it.
And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

- Ronald Reagan

Matches up with my thinking and observations . This is the reason why the fed powers are (should be) limited to those specifically enumerated in the Constitution. Fed Government agencies that operate outside of those powers should be eliminated .

One of the commentators had a good accurate observation:

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President Eisenhower warned us, a series of elected and unelected government officials that followed wiped themselves with that warning and the national press became propagandists for them rather than watch dogs for We the People.

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You load sixteen tons and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
St. Peter don't you call 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store.

Jerry Pournelle comes to mind:

"Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration. Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc. The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization"

The goal of bureaucracies will eventually morph into keeping the bureau alive, well funded, and increasing its scope and power.

Occurs in private and public sectors but much easier to root out and control, and is naturally limited by external forces in the private sector...

From an AI summary of power pyramids eventually corrupting from the unified initial goals...

The concept you're describing relates to organizational power dynamics and politics, where existing power structures (the main "pyramid") adapt ("morph") to preserve the influence and resources of established internal groups ("smaller pyramids"). This behavior is a core part of how organizational politics function, especially when faced with change or external threats.
Key aspects and related concepts include:
Preservation of Power Centers: In many organizations, power is not only formal (based on position) but also informal (based on expertise, relationships, or control over key resources). Established sub-groups or departments often use their accumulated influence to resist changes that might diminish their standing or access to resources, even if such changes would benefit the organization as a whole

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Samual Adams was an Anti-Federalist and seems to have predicted what we see today in the Democratic Party leadership and leftist Federal Judges corrupting the Constitution's separation of powers of civil nation and rule of law relies on.

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We have the government the Anit-Federalists feared. The one the Federalists said couldn't happen. To be fair to the Federalists, the 16th and 17th amendments were needed for it to happen.

All true but the real problem is we have less than half of all Americans getting free stuff and not paying income tax. They will never vote for anything else.