The federal government of the United States currently employs over 2.1 million people.  The average salary of these federal employees is $90,510 annually, excluding benefits. While many of these positions are vital to the nation, others could be absorbed through consolidation, or simply eliminated, without the public ever noticing. Without exception, duplication and waste are hallmarks of every true Washington DC bureaucracy.  Meaningful conversation about reducing the size and scope of the civilian employee population within the federal government is considered bureaucratic blasphemy.

Today’s federal government is ever-expanding – fabricating needs and promising solutions to problems that hardly exist, or have already been solved. Annual budgets must be exhausted so next year they’ll be more.  Justification of purpose and the illusion of value means even broader mission statements followed by increased funding.  For example, when the U.S. Department of Education was established in 1979 for no obvious purpose other than more control over the states, supporters claimed it would require a relatively small budget and employ approximately 100 people. This year, President Biden’s 2021 Budget included $66.6 billion in new discretionary budget authority for the Department of Education.  Forty-two years after its formation, the U.S. Department of Education now employs approximately 5000 people.

Joe Biden promised to “unite” the nation – to close the divides and end the hatred and divisiveness he blames solely on his predecessor.  Nothing of the sort has yet occurred.  American politics are as raw, rough, and rambunctious as ever.

Rage between conservatives that favor personal liberty and freedom foremost, and liberals that desire even greater government control, “equity” through massive taxation and even confiscation of private property, makes the conversations of secession based on irreconcilable differences sound almost practical. When emotions run at a fever pitch, it doesn’t take much more heat for tempers to boil over. Once considered unfathomable, a second civil war would not surprise any person that pays even the slightest attention to current events.

The power pendulum swings so recklessly nowadays whenever control of the White House and Congress changes hands. Compromise is a sign of weakness. Rather than unite the nation, Biden has committed himself to enacting a Great Reset type agenda that is beyond unaffordable and purposely intrusive.  It grants greater power to the federal government to stifle state rights and stomp upon individual liberty and freedom.  Biden calls it the Build Back Better Plan.  It’s a gut punch and kick in the crotch to every American conservative – and that’s exactly how the socialist democrats intend it to feel. They want to push and provoke the conservative right to act out violently.  Extreme words indeed, but it’s time to wake up and fathom the unfathomable. Millions of conservative Americans are pissed off in the spring-loaded position and ready to strike at any moment.  Their hatred for the liberals runs as deep as the left’s hatred for Trump.

There is so much wrong in Biden’s Build Back Better budget.  The fact that the democrats are so urgently desperate to pass a staggering $3.5 trillion, enormous 2,465-page bill through reconciliation is unprecedented.  Requiring 60 senators to vote in favor of this spending package would require serious debate, deliberation, and compromise. The democrats must realize that such debate on the more troublesome parts of their plan would draw media attention and news coverage, followed by even greater pushback. This is further evidence that the democrats believe that they know what’s best for the American people and not the other way around. Socialism cannot prevail when we are a government of the people by the people., as our founders established for us 245 years ago.

The idea of establishing a Civilian Climate Corps is as wasteful as it is unnecessary. It appears to be nothing more than a guaranteed income scheme designed to overpay the practically unemployable and suspiciously lazy with something that they can call a job.  Sure, there will be tasks tailormade for this lack-of-talent pool – mostly work that is already being performed by current employees with the Department of Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of Health and Human Services.  And without a doubt, the tasks and assignments given to these new federal employees that will take them 8 hours to complete, would easily, and more proficiently be performed by a capitalist private company within 1 hour. But it’s now considered disrespectful and not honoring a person’s dignity if he or she or it is required to work harder or smarter, or faster…not like in the real world where profit remains a necessary and desirable outcome, and not a dirty word.

To get the CCC started, the Biden Build Back Better Boondoggle Budget calls for an initial $2,250,000,000 to be used for staffing, salaries, and other workforce needs to support the development of a Civilian Climate Corps.  Note that this is an initial $2.25 billion just to support the development of this completely unnecessary Biden brigade.  Lobbyist / Activist groups like the Sunshine Movement see this as an opportunity to add up to 1.5 million people to the federal government payroll at great expense to our country, while providing no real value – only more duplication, waste, and surely intrusion into our lives.  So, when the socialist senator, Bernie Sanders asked, “What would you cut from the plan?”, as if it’s all worthwhile, just tell him, “How about scratching the stunningly stupid and wasteful idea of the absolutely unnecessary Civilian Climate Corps, Bernie?”