Comments on: What's an essential government service? http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/06/05/whats-an-essential-government-service/ Protect yourself from government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pat http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/06/05/whats-an-essential-government-service/#comment-9285 Pat Tue, 29 May 2007 13:43:28 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/06/05/whats-an-essential-government-service/#comment-9285 The idea of creating government pensions is absurd except for the few government employees required to work in the offices that provide services for public documents, etc., or secretaries who perform those services. Public officials who are elected should not be living from public funds after retirement because it encourages less democracy, and the ability to consider political appointments as careers as if they were jobs in the private sector. The government is, and has never been, the private sector. Converting the private sector into a government employment scheme is as much a dictator-like infrastructure as having a real dictator decide how the nation will work. Government is not an entity in democracy; it is a loosely affiliated segment of individuals appointed or elected for oversight purposes, and to facilitate essential services deemed important for the American people. It is not an end in itself, but a means of distributing those services - and a job, not a career. Public service was never meant to be a way to riches. That it has become so is the greatest undoing of democracy as conceived that ever managed to creep into America. It is more and more difficult to be able to distinguish America from any other nation, replete with dictatorships who abuse their privileges of election. The idea of creating government pensions is absurd except for the few government employees required to work in the offices that provide services for public documents, etc., or secretaries who perform those services.

Public officials who are elected should not be living from public funds after retirement because it encourages less democracy, and the ability to consider political appointments as careers as if they were jobs in the private sector. The government is, and has never been, the private sector. Converting the private sector into a government employment scheme is as much a dictator-like infrastructure as having a real dictator decide how the nation will work.

Government is not an entity in democracy; it is a loosely affiliated segment of individuals appointed or elected for oversight purposes, and to facilitate essential services deemed important for the American people. It is not an end in itself, but a means of distributing those services – and a job, not a career. Public service was never meant to be a way to riches. That it has become so is the greatest undoing of democracy as conceived that ever managed to creep into America. It is more and more difficult to be able to distinguish America from any other nation, replete with dictatorships who abuse their privileges of election.

]]> By: Bush takes control of continuity planning - Homeland Stupidity http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/06/05/whats-an-essential-government-service/#comment-9284 Bush takes control of continuity planning - Homeland Stupidity Sun, 13 May 2007 22:25:31 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/06/05/whats-an-essential-government-service/#comment-9284 [...] The federal government’s continuity of government planning has come under fire in recent years for inadequate facilities and supply planning (PDF) and trying to include too many services as essential. [...] [...] The federal government’s continuity of government planning has come under fire in recent years for inadequate facilities and supply planning (PDF) and trying to include too many services as essential. [...]

]]> By: Q http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/06/05/whats-an-essential-government-service/#comment-9282 Q Mon, 12 Jun 2006 22:00:56 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/06/05/whats-an-essential-government-service/#comment-9282 more on the 13th amendment: http://www.amendment-13.org/index.html more on the 13th amendment:

http://www.amendment-13.org/index.html

]]> By: Q http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/06/05/whats-an-essential-government-service/#comment-9281 Q Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:56:53 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/06/05/whats-an-essential-government-service/#comment-9281 again this crap with bush and cheeney being protected in is direct violation of the original 13th amendment, a ratified amendment, which mysteriously disappeared. i give it to you here: "If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office, or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them." http://www.barefootsworld.net/13essay.html again this crap with bush and cheeney being protected in is direct violation of the original 13th amendment, a ratified amendment, which mysteriously disappeared. i give it to you here:

“If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office, or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them.”

http://www.barefootsworld.net/13essay.html

]]> By: AT&T disaster recovery awes Homeland Security - Homeland Stupidity http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/06/05/whats-an-essential-government-service/#comment-9280 AT&T disaster recovery awes Homeland Security - Homeland Stupidity Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:15:47 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/06/05/whats-an-essential-government-service/#comment-9280 [...] And none too soon. The government is woefully unprepared and poorly coordinated for the next disaster. Invariably it will be ordinary people, and companies like AT&T and Wal-Mart, who pick up the slack. [...] [...] And none too soon. The government is woefully unprepared and poorly coordinated for the next disaster. Invariably it will be ordinary people, and companies like AT&T and Wal-Mart, who pick up the slack. [...]

]]> By: Eric Heins http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/06/05/whats-an-essential-government-service/#comment-9279 Eric Heins Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:07:40 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/06/05/whats-an-essential-government-service/#comment-9279 This is the teachable moment and political opportunity produced by the hurricane catastrophes on the Golf Coast last year. Did anyone actually capitalize on the chance? I heard a small weak voice for about 2 days, about 3 weeks after 'Katrina'. This is the teachable moment and political opportunity produced by the hurricane catastrophes on the Golf Coast last year. Did anyone actually capitalize on the chance? I heard a small weak voice for about 2 days, about 3 weeks after ‘Katrina’.

]]> By: Scott Christman http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/06/05/whats-an-essential-government-service/#comment-9278 Scott Christman Tue, 06 Jun 2006 07:19:44 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/06/05/whats-an-essential-government-service/#comment-9278 I don’t think there is such a thing as essential government services, in terms of them being available in a time of need. As you have pointed out, at the end of the day when you really would need them they wouldn’t be there anyway. I personally think that essential services should be in the hands of the business sector, as they are the ones who would be more effective in handling any needed services, because they have a vested interest to be able to provide to their customers, otherwise they would lose their business. But when left in the hands of the government, they don’t really care, because at the end of the day they are still going to get our money through taxes. I don’t think there is such a thing as essential government services, in terms of them being available in a time of need. As you have pointed out, at the end of the day when you really would need them they wouldn’t be there anyway. I personally think that essential services should be in the hands of the business sector, as they are the ones who would be more effective in handling any needed services, because they have a vested interest to be able to provide to their customers, otherwise they would lose their business. But when left in the hands of the government, they don’t really care, because at the end of the day they are still going to get our money through taxes.

]]> By: Jason http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/06/05/whats-an-essential-government-service/#comment-9277 Jason Mon, 05 Jun 2006 18:03:23 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/06/05/whats-an-essential-government-service/#comment-9277 <em>Give up your addiction to government.</em> One would ask how anyone ('cept unemployed or federal aid individuals) could. Then again, ...that's sorta the group of people I thought of when reading through this whole thing :P. Give up your addiction to government.
One would ask how anyone (‘cept unemployed or federal aid individuals) could.
Then again, …that’s sorta the group of people I thought of when reading through this whole thing :P .

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