Just briefly....
The Washington Post newspaper did a three-part series on how the government-intelligence-military (etc etc) network conglomerate thing has gotten out of hand. Didn't read the series, but I'm sure it's probably mostly true.
But it seems to be whining about what was called the "industrial-military complex" in the 1960s. This was a knot of government and private interests, supposedly closely and diabolically interlinked, and all fomenting continuous war -- especially in Vietnam -- to keep themselves employed.
Apparently the Post berates the fact that the whole intelligence thing is made up dozens, if not hundreds, of tiny bureaus, accountable to no one, and all with some little bit of authority to make rules and regulations that bind on the population.
What I'd like to see is the Washington Post ponder the idea that with socialized medicine, a similar mess of unaccountable and even unintelligible bureaus are right now in the process of being established in the health care industry.
Similarly, finance and commerce in general are now going to be subject to the whims and fancies of a bunch of additional appointed bureaucrats -- most of which probably have never been in business -- who are accountable to who-knows, yet who can make decisions and write regulations that bind on the rest of the nation. Actually, this tangle of private and government interlocking interests has existed for quite some time -- this is where Tim Geithner has spent his entire career. And look at the wonders it has done for the economy so far. Expect more of the same.
We see this happening now -- this kudzu-like growth of government -- and I suspect the Washington Post, which at heart really loves the idea of Big Government, doesn't see the negativity it will spawn. However, nice to know that when the Post looks through its rear-view mirror, it recognizes a useless, expensive, and probably very dangerous rat's nest. They just can't look forward far enough to see a couple more of these briar-patch bureaucracies in the making.
Save the republic.
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