My, How We've Grown!

 The Constitution of the United States was signed into effect on September 17, 1787.  

Just eleven years after we declared our independence from King George, we'd progressed enough to update our Declaration of Independence into a final governing document.  Agreed upon by representatives of all our 13 original colonies.  Making us a Representative Republic.  One where we select those to vote in our stead.  Not a "plus-one" democracy, but a Republic.  

And on that fateful day we had exactly 3 employees; our President, our Vice President and our Secretary of the Treasury.  People to run things, and somebody to raise money on behalf of the 2,500,000 people who inhabited America.

Although our cabinets were fleshed out with secretaries and Directors, and their assistants and helpers, we were operating pretty lean back then.  Unlike today.  Where people are tripping over one another.  We have some 2,900,000 people employed in one form or another by You and Me.  The Taxpayers.  Paying for bloat.  

The State Department, as an example, just underwent its very first internal audit.  To determine how effeciently it's being run.  It was determined 50, count 'em, 50 layers of approval are required to change any Operating Policy.  The Secretary of State requested a list of employees in February and it only just arrived.  It took that long to count them...

The Department of Energy had life breathed into it back in Jimmy Carter's term.  He'd so screwed up our energy policy that the Arabs cut off our oil delivery.  Some will remember we could only buy gas every other day.  That Department had as its marching orders to figure out how to make us independent of Middle Eastern Oil.  Now, some 40-plus years later, it hasn't.  There are now more than 100,000 Department employees and contractors, costing us $161,500,000 a year.  People moving pieces of paper around on their desks, making an average of over $100,000 a year, and accomplishiing nothing.  Except how to prevent fracking.  And how to make people drive electric cars.  And how to make our solar output greater. 

The 2nd Amendment to our Bill of Rights says, "...the Right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."  And then our Gubmint decides to create the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.  Presuming, one would guess, that gun owners are drunken chainsmokers.  That one Bureau exists to "infringe" upon the 2nd Amendment.  It does so by writing laws to restrict our purchase, use, storage and ability to sell firearms.  

Oh yeah, and then they added "Explosives" to the Bureau.  So we firearm owners drink too much, smoke too much and blow sh*t up too much, I guess.

From an original 3 offices in our Gubmint, we now have more than 400.  Not counting all their 2nd, 3rd, and 4th level subordinate agencies, departments and bureaus.  Which totals, are you ready, 

More than 1,000 agencies supping at the Public Teat.

There are many more examples I could offer just off the top of my head.  That's why "DOGE" was created.  And you might have noticed the cacophanious uproar that resulted when useless drones discovered that our Gubmint was considering eliminating their useless drone asses.  It was fun to watch.  But it was, and is, a real shame.  A shame that the "Takers" might be defeating the "Makers."  They are the ones who create value in our Republic.  Who makes things.  And generate revenue.  Which we can tax.  Exorbitantly.  While the drones fight to maintain their priveleged lives.

That cabin in the woods sounds pretty good, now don't it?