"I don’t know nuthin about nuthin, and I ain’t sayin nuthin
to nobody.” This sounds like it might be
a line from a 1930s gangster movie. But,
for all practical purposes, albeit in different words, it is the line spoken repeatedly,
in Congressional hearings, by supposed “public servants” who serve no one but
themselves.
More than one pundit has recently noted that the problem
with government scandal is not Obama.
It’s “the system.” And while
normally, we conservatives do not like using vague terms to describe a specific
problem, in this case, the pundits have a point.
“The system” is not a vague mystery. For, while there are certainly many good
public servants, the system itself is a vast, labyrinthine tangle of entrenched
bureaucrats who are rarely held accountable to the public they supposedly
serve. When asked about what they are
doing, the only replies are of the category, “I don’t know nuthin about nuthin,
and I ain’t sayin nuthin to nobody.”
For millions of law abiding, tax-paying Americans, it is
inconceivable that the system could possibly work this way.
Yes, we respect the Fifth Amendment, but that amendment was
intended to prevent abuse by the government against citizens. It is an amendment intended to shield the
public from government abuse, not to shield the government from its criminal
acts of abuse against the public.
IRS bureaucrats are unionized. Union rules protect IRS bureaucrats from
answering to us, their employers. Who
was it that signed our names to this outrageous agreement? Yes, IRS workers should be protected, but we
who pay their wages deserve equal protection from them, when they abuse us. What kind of “system” permits this?
Either we will change this system for the better, or else,
it will eventually destroy us. And it
will not change unless you, the citizen, change it.
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