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The Civil Service Reform Act restored the power that the Democratic party had prior to the Civil War, only this time with no accountability to the voters.

The Civil Service Reform Act restored the power that the Democratic party had prior to the Civil War, only this time with no accountability to the voters.

===New Deal===

===The Era of Big Government===

:{{See also|New Deal|Agricultural Adjustment Administration}}

:{{See also|Great Society|Clinton Administration}}

[[FDR]]'s New Deal began with, long before ever providing any direct relief to the public, an enormous expansion of the civil service bureaucracy. Agencies were created, and people hired, before there was even any idea or plan what they would do. These are the so-called Alphabet soup agencies.

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.

Among them was the [[AAA]], or the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, an organization later found unconstitutional by the [[Supreme Court]], which led to FDR's notorious court-packing scheme. However, when the AAA was founded, dozens of avowed [[Marxist]]s and [[communist]]s who had dedicated their lives to "social justice" and overthrowing the United States government, joined the U.S. Civil Service system.

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.<ref>See H.R. Haldeman, ''The Ends of Power'', Book V : ''The Hidden Story of Watergate'', pp. 221-249. With Nixon's massive and unsurpassed electoral mandate in the [[1972 Presidential election]], Nixon planned to fire all the New Deal and Great Society holdovers in the federal Civil Service bureaucracy, at all levels. When the Civil Service got wind of the scheme, they ran Nixon out of town first.</ref> [[Jimmy Carter]]'s efforts to revive [[big government]] spending funneled at and through the civil service resulted in [[stagflation]]. [[President Ronald Reagan]]'s efforts to curb the rate of growth of government spending, his hiring freeze and firing of of civil service air traffic controllers resulted in the usual Democratic attacks of calling him [[Hitler]] or a [[Nazi]]; however Nazi's were not known for controlling the proliferation of civil service jobs, as Bible thumpers, or encouraging individual initiative, incentive, or achievement.

 

These were the brilliant geniuses who came up with the solution to ending agricultural surpluses and low prices by paying farmers ''not'' to grow crops.<ref>Creating an artificial shortage created artificially higher prices to raise depressed wages for those lucky enough to still be employed. Today it's called "picking winners and loosers." The benefits went to those with [[white privilege]].</ref> The idea worked well for landowners, but not so well for Black [[sharecropper]]s who had jobs and were working when President Roosevelt took office, but were tossed out of work when the Democrat civil servants started paying their landlords not to allow crop production on their land. Having created Black [[unemployment]] in the depths of the [[Great Depression]],<ref>For more detail, see [[Rexford_Guy_Tugwell#Economic_planning_and_the_New_Deal]].</ref> these loyal civil servants than gave cause to create more civil service positions to handle the new crisis they created - a class of unemployed Black voters dependent on Democrat civil servants and elected officials who voted the funding for civil service agencies and salaries, and the handout of "relief."<ref>The situation repeated itself in 1957 with passage of the Interstate Highway Act. Large tracts of land were bought up in urban areas and inner cities for construction of the Interstate Highway system, creating a housing shortage among [[African American]]s. By 1964 the [[Department of Housing and Urban Development]] was founded to deal with the crisis in [[homelessness]] and minority housing that the federal government created.</ref>

 

 

It's no exaggeration to say, many of these New Deal economists and civil servants in the [[McCarthyism|McCarthy era]] of the 1950s fled to [[Maoist]] [[China]] to implement their real ambitions after they were suspected of attempting to subvert and overthrow the US [[Constitution]] and government.<ref>Unlike the landlords of sharecroppers, these former American civil servants turned Chinese Communist civil servants simply outlawed "landlordism," and exterminated the landlords, saving the state treasury billions in agricultural subsidies.</ref> Their time in China is memorialized in history as the [[Three Years of Disasters]].

===The Sixties===

===The Sixties===