From their earliest days in the government schools, children are carefully taught not to question teachers, the first people in the World-Wide Bureaucracy with whom they come in contact. Properly educating young people is important to the WWB. Those in charge of it remember well that, once in a while, there are revolutions that limit their powers.
In America and France, many who weren’t nobles were smart enough to realize they were being plundered by the European nobility, an earlier version of the World-Wide Bureaucracy. Since the WWB had not yet instituted systems to inculcate generations of young students with the idea that they had no basic rights, their revolutions attracted many supporters. Those revolutions, for a time, were successful.
Soon after those revolutions were over, the bureaucrats again took control. After any nation becomes somewhat stabilized, its bureaucracy begins to accumulate power. As leaders change, the bureaucrats’ permanent organizations keep on running things. Over time, they become the state. No one cares about stopping them, until their demands for special treatment culminate in making themselves into “virtual nobilities”.
When their automatic pay increases are totaled over decades, it is found that they automatically become a privileged class. The only thing they lack today that they had a couple of hundred years ago, when they were actual nobles, is the ability to pass on their privileged positions to their children.
That’s already happening, but it’s not obvious. When it becomes obvious that no one can get ahead but bureaucrats and their children, it’s too late for freedom to survive.
How powerful are bureaucrats?
There are, constitutionally, less than 600 people who determine levels of government spending in the United States. There are 435 Representatives and 100 Senators. Add to that the 9 members of the Supreme Court, the President, and Vice President. 546 people have the power to determine taxing and spending issues.
So, the tiniest majority of 218 Representatives, 51 Senators, the President, and 5 Justices vote or otherwise decide that the government should be reduced in size, it will be.
We see that our nation is trillions of dollars in debt. Why don’t those 275 people make the necessary decisions to reduce spending significantly, in even one country?
The World-Wide Bureaucracy won’t let them. It’s power is such that it is able to keep 275 people who will reduce spending from being put into office by the 150,000,000 voters among its 300,000,000 overtaxed citizens.
