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Civil service system (view source)
Revision as of 00:15, December 31, 2018
, 00:15, December 31, 2018→The Era of Big Government
:{{See also|Great Society|Clinton Administration}}
:{{See also|Great Society|Clinton Administration}}
The generation that fought [[World War II]] were convinced [[Keynesian]]s - that government debt and spending was the key to prosperity. And the more of it, the better. President [[Lyndon Johnson]] and the Democratic Congress that rubber stamped his projects fully believed they could mount a major war effort by drafting the nation's teenage unemployed, pursue massive social programs in the War on Poverty, and fund ambitious scientific research in the space race to land a man-on-the-moon, all simultaneously. There were no shortages of government jobs, or civil servants to hand out money during the 1960s.
The generation that fought [[World War II]] were convinced [[Keynesian]]s - that government debt and spending was the key to prosperity. And the more of it, the better. President [[Lyndon Johnson]] and the Democratic Congress that rubber stamped his projects fully believed they could mount a major war effort by drafting the nation's teenage unemployed, pursue massive social programs in the War on Poverty, and fund ambitious scientific research in the space race to land a man-on-the-moon, all simultaneously. There were no shortages of government jobs, or civil servants to hand out money during the 1960s.
By the 1970s, the drunken spending boom resulted in a massive hangover. [[Nixon]]'s attempt to reform the Civil Service system resulted in him being railroaded out of town. [[Jimmy Carter]]'s efforts to revive [[big government]] spending funneled at and through the civil service resulted in [[stagflation]].
===Statism and the totalitarian police state===
===Statism and the totalitarian police state===