Topic: Decline of the West
Why do we still call them public servants?
The question popped into my mind as I perused this story by Geoffrey Norman in the Weekly Standard. Over the first two years of the Obama Administration, I learned, the number of government limousines in service increased by an eye-popping 73%! Supposedly, this vast expansion of the federal limousine pool, mostly for the benefit of Hillary Clinton’s State Department, was justified by “security concerns.” imagine the reaction from Democrats and the media if such a thing had happened during the Bush years!
Norman is not impressed by the argument that “security concerns” required large sums of borrowed money to be spent on luxurious rides for senior bureaucrats:
When is the last time you heard of an attempt on the undersecretary for economic, energy, and agricultural affairs? Or the special envoy for climate change? Is there a cabal somewhere secretly plotting to knock off the coordinator of reconstruction and stabilization?
One suspects not. Suspects, in fact, that the fancy wheels are just one more manifestation of a truth that is becoming more and more apparent every day. Namely, that for the political class—especially in Washington—these are the best of times.
How true! Tell me, America, is this the change you’ve been waiting for?
