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bucolic_frolic

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8. These people are paid to pass big bills they don't even read
Tue Dec 22, 2020, 10:40 AM
Dec 2020

It's a kind of 'I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine.' The staffs are running the show.

“In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless, we have a tyranny without a tyrant.”

----- Hannah Arendt

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8521299-in-a-fully-developed-bureaucracy-there-is-nobody-left-with

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