Comment by Clubber
2 years ago
Are they though? How about the FDA getting most of its funding by the companies they are supposed to regulate? It's comforting to just trust that bureaucracies are doing what's good for the country, but also naive.
https://aspe.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/e4a791060...
How about the NSA spying on congress?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/04/nsa-spying-ber...
How about the ATF making up laws?
https://nclalegal.org/2019/09/atf-admits-it-lacked-authority...
The only teeth congress has with these bureaucracies is the power of the purse.
> The only teeth congress has with these bureaucracies is the power of the purse.
Not true. Congress can make laws defining what those agencies are and are not allowed to do.
And if the agencies go outside the bounds of those laws like some currently do?
Then those who are victimized take it to court. If the agency committed an actual crime, then there's a path for that to be prosecuted as well.
It's certainly not a perfect system, but it's successfully done all the time.
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Congress created these agencies, they can write laws that fundamentally change how they work, what they do, and what they focus on. They can even just disband these agencies. Congress has all of the power it needs. If they don't use it, maybe what you think should happen doesn't align with the majority of Congress.
You're assuming that the shadow government can't or won't institute regime change when it's threatened. The US Government killed a president, why wouldn't it blackmail congress as well?
With this belief, does anything really matter?
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