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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, 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 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 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,<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." 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." 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.