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Revision as of 01:28, December 31, 2018
, 01:28, December 31, 2018→The Era of Big Government: if you wanna write about how the Square Deal failed and had to be replaced with the New Deal, fine
The immediate impetus for ending patronage and introducing civil service reform was the assassination of President [[James Garfield]] by a disgruntled low level campaign worker who was by-passed and felt Garfield owed him a job. The spoils system was rife with [[corruption]] and [[cronyism]]. Under the spoils system, when voters rebelled and elected the opposition, everyone in an incumbent political machine lost their government job. The see-saw wholesale turnover of government workers created instability in the institutions of government.
The immediate impetus for ending patronage and introducing civil service reform was the assassination of President [[James Garfield]] by a disgruntled low level campaign worker who was by-passed and felt Garfield owed him a job. The spoils system was rife with [[corruption]] and [[cronyism]]. Under the spoils system, when voters rebelled and elected the opposition, everyone in an incumbent political machine lost their government job. The see-saw wholesale turnover of government workers created instability in the institutions of government.
[[Teddy Roosevelt]]'s rise to national prominence as a "progressive" reformer began with implementing civil service reform and ending the patronage system in the New York City Police Department, and later as governor by implementing a state level civil service system.
[[Teddy Roosevelt]]'s rise to national prominence as a "progressive" reformer began with implementing civil service reform and ending the patronage system in the New York City Police Department, and later as governor by implementing a state level civil service system.
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===
:{{See also|New Deal|Agricultural Adjustment 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.
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.
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>
By the time the Supreme Court found the AAA illegal in 1935, these new professional career civil servants were simply reassigned to other agencies, the idea being it was impossible to fire "non-political" career civil servants once their foot was in the door.
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 Era of Big Government===
===The Era of Big Government===