| | ::::[[Elizabeth Warren]]'s rise began as the first chairwoman of the CFPB, born out of the [[Crash of 2008]]. All born out of [[new spending]] to deal with a crisis. Prior to that, her qualifications and experience amounted to delivering anti-corporate socialist rants to students as an [[Ivy League]] college professor for 30 years. [http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/07/exclusive-gravy-train-flows-wide-and-deep-at-elizabeth-warrens-consumer-agency/ The money flowed]. 8 years later she's the DNC frontrunner for president. | | ::::[[Elizabeth Warren]]'s rise began as the first chairwoman of the CFPB, born out of the [[Crash of 2008]]. All born out of [[new spending]] to deal with a crisis. Prior to that, her qualifications and experience amounted to delivering anti-corporate socialist rants to students as an [[Ivy League]] college professor for 30 years. [http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/07/exclusive-gravy-train-flows-wide-and-deep-at-elizabeth-warrens-consumer-agency/ The money flowed]. 8 years later she's the DNC frontrunner for president. |
| − | ::::Like the CFPB, the TSA was created out of a crisis in the aftermath of 9/11, and a massive reorganization of the government, including creation of the $40 billion Dept. of Homeland Security [[Direct_spending#Permanent_spending|permanent spending]]. Odd thing is, it was created at a time [[privatization]] was accepted by both state and federal governments as necessary cause governments could not meet the commitments, nor carry the costs, of public sector union medical benefits and pensions. But the national Democratic party demanded the massive expansion of security guards at airports be federal jobs, not outsourced to the private, in exchange for votes to expand federal spending for the governments reorganization and the war on terror. Fast forward 16 years: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2017/02/13/tsa-and-airport-workers-indicted-for-allegedly-smuggling-20-tons-of-cocaine-through-puerto-rico-airport/?utm_term=.978032e31f0f it took Jeff Sessions 2 weeks to drain the swamp on an operation that was common knowledge in Washington for 16 years]. | + | ::::Like the CFPB, the TSA was created out of a crisis in the aftermath of 9/11, and a massive reorganization of the government, including creation of the $40 billion Dept. of Homeland Security [[Direct_spending#Permanent_spending|permanent spending]]. Odd thing is, it was created at a time [[privatization]] was accepted by both state and federal governments as necessary cause governments could not meet the commitments, nor carry the costs, of public sector union medical benefits and pensions. But the national Democratic party demanded the massive expansion of security guards at airports be federal jobs, not outsourced to the private sector, in exchange for votes to expand federal spending for the governments reorganization and the war on terror. Fast forward 16 years: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2017/02/13/tsa-and-airport-workers-indicted-for-allegedly-smuggling-20-tons-of-cocaine-through-puerto-rico-airport/?utm_term=.978032e31f0f it took Jeff Sessions 2 weeks to drain the swamp on an operation that was common knowledge in Washington for 16 years]. |
| | + | ::::But you can't fire any of these people, because their non-political jobs. But they are available to tap your phone, or audit and leak your tax return, or deny you non-ptofit status if you organize to demsnd accountability. |
| | ::::What do we learn from any of this? You never want to let a perfectly good crisis go to waste. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''CIA v Trump updated score'':CIA 3, Trump 2]]</sup> 16:18, 4 April 2017 (EDT) | | ::::What do we learn from any of this? You never want to let a perfectly good crisis go to waste. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''CIA v Trump updated score'':CIA 3, Trump 2]]</sup> 16:18, 4 April 2017 (EDT) |