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Revision as of 01:52, December 31, 2018
, 01:52, December 31, 2018→The Era of Big Government
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 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, encouraging private enterprise, the profit motive, individual initiative or accomplishment.
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 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, encouraging private enterprise, the profit motive, individual initiative or accomplishment.
So successful was [[Reaganomics]] at restoring the health of the American [[economy]] by restraining the growth of Civil Service, even [[Bill Clinton]] couldn't deny it when he said "The era of big government is over." Nonetheless, this didn't stop Clinton from traditional Democrat Civil Service cronyism and expanding Civil Service into paid-volunteerism with Americorps, pushing middle-class welfare with homeownership ([[Fannie Mae]] and [[Freddie Mac]]) and the [[Community Redevelopment Act]], implementing massive bailout schemes of the Mexican Peso and [[Long-Term Capital Management]], or granting his girlfriends and [[sexual assault]] victims civil service positions to hush them.
===Statism and the totalitarian police state===
===Statism and the totalitarian police state===