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Many countries have some kind of civil service system in place.  People become employed by their government to do the many jobs of the government.  An example is the administrative system giving stability to Chinese empires by using competitive exams to fill [[government]] offices.

Many countries have some kind of '''civil service system''' in place.  People become employed by their government to do the many jobs of the government.  An example is the administrative system giving stability to Chinese empires by using competitive exams to fill [[government]] offices.

==U.S. civil service==

==U.S. civil service==

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 ended with 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,<ref>"My dealings with the bureaucracy showed me their first priorities were maintaining the status quo in their agencies, and they were certainly not Republicans." - DONALD DEVINE, FORMER REAGAN HEAD OF THE OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT. [https://m.govexec.com/feature/gov-exec-deconstructing-deep-state/ ''Deconstructing the Deep State''], by Charles S. Cook. govexec.com </ref> his hiring freeze on the federal workforce and firing civil service air traffic controllers resulted in the standard issue Democratic attacks of calling him [[Hitler]] or a [[Nazi]]; however Nazi's were not known for controlling the proliferation of civil service jobs, or as Bible thumpers, or 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 ended with 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,<ref>"My dealings with the bureaucracy showed me their first priorities were maintaining the status quo in their agencies, and they were certainly not Republicans." - DONALD DEVINE, FORMER REAGAN HEAD OF THE OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT. [https://m.govexec.com/feature/gov-exec-deconstructing-deep-state/ ''Deconstructing the Deep State''], by Charles S. Cook. govexec.com</ref> his hiring freeze on the federal workforce and firing civil service air traffic controllers resulted in the standard issue Democratic attacks of calling him [[Hitler]] or a [[Nazi]]; however Nazi's were not known for controlling the proliferation of civil service jobs, or as Bible thumpers, or 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,<ref>[https://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/guo-jin-min-tui/ Guo jin min tui]</ref> even [[Bill Clinton]] couldn't deny it when he said "The era of big government is over."<ref>One drawback of the Reagan era [[privatization]] movement is the growth of outside contractors in the law enforcement, intelligence, and military spheres who are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.</ref> 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 Reinvestment 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.

So successful was [[Reaganomics]] at restoring the health of the American [[economy]] by restraining the growth of Civil Service,<ref>[https://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/guo-jin-min-tui/ Guo jin min tui]</ref> even [[Bill Clinton]] couldn't deny it when he said "The era of big government is over."<ref>One drawback of the Reagan era [[privatization]] movement is the growth of outside contractors in the law enforcement, intelligence, and military spheres who are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.</ref> 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 Reinvestment 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===

In a typical Marxist society, special schools are set up for the children of party members and students selected by teachers, ages four to fourteen. In Soviet Russia they were known as the Young Pioneers. Separated from the mass of their peers, they are  rigidly infused with socialist theory as tomorrow's leaders,<ref>[[Friedrich Hayek]] writes:<small>"It was not the [[Fascist]]s but the socialists who began to collect [[children]] at the tenderest age into political organizations to direct their thinking. It was not the Fascists but the socialists who first thought of organizing sports and [[game]]s, [[soccer|football]] and hiking, in party clubs where the members would not be infected by other views. It was the socialists who first insisted that the party member should distinguish himself from others by the modes of greeting and the forms of address [i.e. passwords like "Heil Hilter' or "Comrade," etc]. It was they who, by their organization of "cells" and devices for the permanent supervision of private life, created the prototype of the totalitarian party. By the time [[Hitler]] came to power, [[liberalism]] was dead in [[Germany]]. And it was socialism that had killed it."</small><br>See also: [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/17/books/review-why-liberalism-failed-patrick-deneen.html If Liberalism Is Dead, What Comes Next?, ''NYT'' Book Review];<br>[https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/553553/ Selfishness Is Killing Liberalism, The path to its revival lies in self-sacrifice, and in placing collective interests ahead of the narrowly personal. ''The Atlantic'', FEB 19, 2018]</ref> and as a [[Esoteric|privileged few]].

In a typical Marxist society, special schools are set up for the children of party members and students selected by teachers, ages four to fourteen. In Soviet Russia they were known as the Young Pioneers. Separated from the mass of their peers, they are  rigidly infused with socialist theory as tomorrow's leaders,<ref>[[Friedrich Hayek]] writes:<small>"It was not the [[Fascist]]s but the socialists who began to collect [[children]] at the tenderest age into political organizations to direct their thinking. It was not the Fascists but the socialists who first thought of organizing sports and [[game]]s, [[soccer|football]] and hiking, in party clubs where the members would not be infected by other views. It was the socialists who first insisted that the party member should distinguish himself from others by the modes of greeting and the forms of address [i.e. passwords like "Heil Hilter' or "Comrade," etc]. It was they who, by their organization of "cells" and devices for the permanent supervision of private life, created the prototype of the totalitarian party. By the time [[Hitler]] came to power, [[liberalism]] was dead in [[Germany]]. And it was socialism that had killed it."</small><br>See also: [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/17/books/review-why-liberalism-failed-patrick-deneen.html If Liberalism Is Dead, What Comes Next?, ''NYT'' Book Review];<br>[https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/553553/ Selfishness Is Killing Liberalism, The path to its revival lies in self-sacrifice, and in placing collective interests ahead of the narrowly personal. ''The Atlantic'', FEB 19, 2018]</ref> and as a [[Esoteric|privileged few]].

At fourteen, those who haven't washed out yet go on to join the party Youth Organization (or Kosomol as it was known in Soviet Russia) consisting of young people ages 14-28,<ref>https://y.dsausa.org</ref> where the hope is in meeting a spouse. By age 28, full party membership and a good government civil service job is granted, replete with all party privileges and voting rights denied to the masses.

At fourteen, those who haven't washed out yet go on to join the party Youth Organization (or Kosomol as it was known in Soviet Russia) consisting of young people ages 14–28,<ref>https://y.dsausa.org</ref> where the hope is in meeting a spouse. By age 28, full party membership and a good government civil service job is granted, replete with all party privileges and voting rights denied to the masses.

===Technocracy===

===Technocracy===