–well, the whole political-police notion is likely well wide of whatever Obama meant, but while we’re at it ( & wondering if internet blogs could’ve prevented WW2) let’s remember that “Mein Kampf” was written by an imprisoned dissident many years before the Nazis overran Europe, and so exposed the author’s moral insanity that it should’ve ended his political career and probably would’ve had it not seemed at the time and among ordinary people so insignificant and –if noticed at all –easily-dismissed as some silly extremist rant.

But as if to a dog whistle a small scattered pack had pricked up its ears –and a mad rant, mortally vulnerable to ridicule, began to parlay a cynically correct zeitgeist appraisal into a powerful act of leadership –among the precise selected few at whom it had been aimed.

Oh, wait — stupid me — that is just the scenario to make “emergency spending and emergency methods” “justifiable.”

Startling statistics!

You know, Al Gore tried to fix the problem and only made it much worse. His Reinventing Government Initiative mandated a 30% reduction in the Federal civilian workforce. And after a Democratic Congress passed the bill, implementation was handled in an approach known in DC as the “Peanut Butter Spread.” Everybody got cut by the 30% – except Congress. No one knows just what the Commerce Dept does but it was not cut more than anyone else. Ditto with Education. No one decided that the Agriculture Dept’s ratio of 1 employee per farmer was too much and cut them appropriately.

The DoD (one of the few legitimate things Fed Govt does) had already been cut by over 40% but it was not exempted from the additional 30% cut. Neither were the people at NASA that inspected the Space Shuttle, and so forth.

Al Gore’s initiative not only cut both the excess and essential equally but led the whole rest of the Fed Govt to go into permanent job-protection mode.

As a rule, the Fed Govt MAY, and with GREAT difficulty, on OCCASION be able to do something for ITSELF in a reasonably successful fashion (note: For example, WWII was fought BY the Fed Govt FOR the Fed Govt) It demonstrably cannot do things for other people, and certainly not for The People.