Fifteen Cabinet members, six more at that level

We just keep adding new departments to our government and yet they actually have very little power to make any significant changes.
Other than State and Defense they never have.
Even FDR had his "kitchen Cabinet" just as Bush does.
These are specialized people who have the time to work daily with the President, therefore the cabinet secretaries can just shuffle papers unless asked to do something different.
The problem lately is that these leaches who hang around the White House never give the President non-biased information.
They are usually political hacks mainly from the President's state or have the same old ideas as the President.
They only have one job: "plausible denial" for the President!
We are getting pretty close to operating similar to third world countries--no matter what happens, the term must be served out and someone else must pay the price if one must be paid.

It's a matter of...

Submitted by yardman5508 on Sat, 12/22/2007 - 8:07pm.

civic duty, or lack thereof. Publibus (the REAL one, from Rome,not FayettePublius) talked all about his duty to Rome...not about what he would get from doing that duty. Today, there is this feeling of "what can I get for doing this". That sort of negates all that went into the basic assumptions upon which this government was formed. The Founding Fathers thought that people would serve their nation simply from the fact that it was a government of the people. (raucous laughter in the background here). Keep the faith

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

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