So it's exactly like any political party or movement? If not what makes it different and why are you so feart?
No one ever elected them and they cannot be removed, you dumb fuck.
In your ideal scenario you'd want statutory regulators and Ombudsmen to be elected?
In my ideal scenario I’d want statutory regulators (aka petty tyrants who pass mini-laws via creative reading of actual laws) shot out of a cannon into a lake of burning napalm and ombudsman appointed by random number generator from a municipal phone book.
Neither of these would result in a system worse than what we have now and would probably be an improvement.
Ah, sorry I thought we were having a serious discussion. My mistake. Love the imagery though, very droll.
Who says I’m not serious?
Western governments are massively bloated with parasites who feed off the taxes of the working class while producing nothing of value; just useless regulations like setting the level of humidity you can have your air conditioner remove from the air in the name of protecting the environment or requiring county residents with more than adequate septic systems to hook into the city sewer lines because they’ve decided it’s better for the environment (and their budget because $120/month per household adds up).
Oh, and when you hook up to the sewer line you’re being forced to take… the fine print states that by taking this city service you didn’t want or need, you also waive all rights to oppose your annexation by the city.
So, because some unelected bureaucrats decided they wanted to pad their budgets and paychecks, they declared by fiat that we must take a service we didn’t need or want costing us $1500 a year extra (per each of the couple thousand homes added) and then annexed us so now we have to pay all the city taxes while cutting the funding to the county schools and giving us crappier fire and police service… and then they hold community meetings where the assclowns get up and tell us we should be grateful to them for forces us to pay thousands a year more for crappier service while they’ve gotten pay raises for increasing the city’s coffers.
No… fuck them all. Fire 100% of them and replace them with volunteer positions. Society would be better off if these greedy no talent hacks had to get jobs in the real world to support themselves (where they’d actually be underqualified to be a Walmart stock boy… you actually have to show up on time and do actual work; two things they’ve never done before) so they’d have some understanding of the economic hardships they’re putting people through while patting themselves on the back for their do-gooderism.
And as for Ombudsmen… I am also dead serious. As every “independent council” investigation of the past three decades has shown, government appointed investigators aren’t there to protect the interests of the people… they’re there to protect the government from scrutiny while presenting the illusion that something is being done. At least a random group pulled from the phone book has a chance of actually wanting to advance the people’s interests.
Once upon a time our grade schoolers could pass tests that the majority of today’s college grads would flunk on a budget that, even adjusted for inflation, was a pittance. The problem isn’t that we aren’t spending enough, it’s that the entire institution is no longer focused on teaching children what they actually need, but on padding the paychecks of a bloated unelected middle and upper management and shielding teachers from any accountability for their gross negligence.
That’s your professional bureaucratic class that you seem to think holds some type of value… we’d be better off being ruled by vampires; at they’re honest about wanting to suck you dry and won’t gaslight you that it’s for your own good while they’re doing it.