Dangers of Big Government
Townhall – Rich Tucker – 5/26/2013
Let us now praise David
Axelrod. “Part of being president is
there’s so much beneath you that you can’t know because the government is so
vast,” the president’s former right-hand-man explained
on MSNBC recently. He was attempting to defend Barack Obama, (IRS - Justice
Department - Associated Press – Benghazi
Axelrod’s defense, of
course, doesn’t apply to the real world.
Since 2002, the
federal government has required CEOs and CFOs to sign forms taking
responsibility for the company’s financial reports. No matter how large of an
empire they oversee, they could well be charged with a crime if an accountant
fails to carry the two somewhere along the line.
By this standard, Obama
would be responsible for the workings of his government because he’s the chief
executive.
The federal government is,
indeed, too large and unwieldy. Let’s
take the logical step: cut the federal government down to its proper size.
As Rep. Paul Ryan puts
it, “big government is bad in theory, but it’s much worse in practice. And
effective government, that is good government that’s limited, focuses in on our
core duties.”
It seems that nobody
is in charge. The president assures us he had no idea his Department of
Justice was seeking phone records from AP reporters. He insists he had no idea
the IRS was giving special scrutiny to Tea Party groups.
Even if we take him at his
word, that means accepting the fact that no elected official can control the
bureaucracy.
Joe
Postell writes that this is because the administrative state is an unelected fourth branch of government,
one which isn’t controlled by the executive or legislative branches. Presidents
come and go, at predictable intervals. Career civil servants, with permanent
job status, can survive most scandals.
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