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Agreed, the fact that they have sprawled out to include all of these unchecked executive agencies with non-essential bureaucrats on payroll deciding the day-to-

• wwweston 8y ago
  Without any checks or oversight at all! Shameful! Well, OK... there's obviously one little check. Like, the staff of these organizations are literally not getting paid right now because of a funding impasse. So, obviously there's some regular oversight about who gets what kind of funding. And come to think of it, all these organizations and jobs were created by act of congress and/or executive prerogative, with scope prescribed by the relevant orders and law. But who are congress and the executive accountable to anyway? And who writes these so called "laws"? Who are the laws accountable to? Wait. They're written by members of congress? And carried out by the executive? Huh. OK, but other than that, totally unchecked! Again, who are "congress" and the so-called "president" accountable to? Who made them "officials"? Oh, yeah. Voters. So actually, there isn't any defensible sense in which one can say "unchecked" at all, actually. Now that we're here, it's almost as if the only way one could use the term "unchecked" is if they're not using language in an attempt to actually describe the world, but out of intent to characterize inaccurately without a supporting argument. Propagandize. Or, I suppose, if one had already had one's mind hijacked by such propaganda. But who would suspect that someone named "rattlesnakedave" might actually be engaging in that sort of commentary?