Re:We mailed one hundred letters to test the postal service
by Kye on Monday May 03, 2021 @07:12PM
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I was trying to figure out how to reply, but I think you got it. They do this out in the open. They run on it. It's not a conspiracy when they say it with volume and pride to anyone who will listen. "Government so small you can drown it in a bathtub" was only a slight paraphrase.
Re:We mailed one hundred letters to test the postal service
by salawat on Monday May 03, 2021 @08:17PM
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The thing that kills me, is there's no seeming paarty for those who turn up their nose at "good enough fpr Government work".
You have one that'll do end runs around Constitutional restrictions to aggregate power, another working feverishly to dismantle it...
Where are the people who just like providing high quality, ubiqquitously accessible civil services supposed to fit in?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/08/13/fac...
Trump appointed Mick Mulvaney as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. "Mulvaney in a 2014 interview slammed the CFPB as a “sick, sad” joke; he also co-sponsored legislation that would have eliminated it."
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/27/16704796/...
"President-elect Donald Trump may nominate former Texas Gov. Rick Perry to lead the Department of Energy—the agency Perry wanted to abolish but infamously forgot to name during a 2011 presidential debate." [Perry went on to be Trump's Secretary of Energy, and it can out that prior to taking the job, he didn't even know what the department did.]
https://time.com/4598910/rick-perry-department-energy-oops-g...
Anti-government activists oppose measures to make filing taxes easier so you'll dislike them more: "Norquist has fought California’s ReadyReturn program, as well as the idea of free federal tax preparation." (Norquist is the one who famously said he wanted to shrink government "to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub," as quoted in this thread.)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/irs-tax-return-filing-diffi...
Those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. So yes, active sabatoge from within is happening, and its not even a secret.