Fire the Bureaucracy

I recently saw a political survey asking which political party do I believe would do a better job governing and what issues should they address first.

I think that one issue they should have put on the survey is Firing the Bureaucracy. Just because the elected portion of the government gets changed out, does not mean that the over all course of the leviathan of the government will change. The appointed and more so, the bureaucratic part is doing more to drive this country into the ground than the elected ones are.

The two prongs of the problem at the surface, as I see it, are those who see government as a make-work-program, and the unions who see the government employees as a power base.

The make-workers apparently see the government as a place to employ people permanently, and where they do not have the performance pressure of actually creating something or adding value to the world. They are instead part of one of the largest money-laundering schemes in history, and with the sheen of government it is legitimate.

The union apparently sees the government employees as a pool of power to build a base upon, and expand.

A below-the-surface issue is that the bureaucracy maintains ideological inertia regardless of the elected officials.

Solution to these issues: in my opinion, fire the bureaucracy
Compel the make-workers by the fore of the market to actually become productive and actually contribute value to society, as opposed to just push paper around.
Break the unions and their power mongering, in process allow the individual to be rewarded by his merit, rather than reward the least productive for hooking up with an external bully.
Get rid of the professional ideologues steering this country away from its constitutional foundation of freedom and justice for all.

Yeah, right.

The news today was reporting Senate Majority Leader Reed as saying that a lot of legislation is being held up in the senate due to partisanship.

I got a solution: Senator Reed, Stop being partisan!

Is there a problem with rodents in Washington D.C.? Tax the Rat Farms.

First post of the year.

Christmas is always reduced in enjoyment, when somebody gives everyone else a cold. My brother-in-law gave it to my sister, gave it to everyone else. Add to that for me I ended up with a ear infection. fortunately it had cleared up.

So what does this new year hold? Will I get employed quickly, or just continue to muddle along?
I have been working through Tywacomb, the source story for my Caspian and Karen blog. I have also had several other ideas come, for projects that I might be able to quickly toss and post bones for.

I found the disks for Battle 360, by the History Channel, about the USS Enterprise CV-6. I had previously watched bits of this when I had cable, and it was running. Now I was able to watch the whole of it.
I found it interesting that in 1941, Enterprise and her sisters, Yorktown and Hornet, were the state of the art. Yorktown and Hornet were both lost by the end of 1942, though there is a slim possibility that had the Navy acted differently, they could have been saved and repaired. That is a moot point. Moving on, by 1945 Enterprise was 'relegated' to duties that the Essex Class carriers were not equipped to do: night raids. Also the Essex class had 10,000 tons of displacement on the Enterprise, were faster, had more volume, carried 20 more planes, and  were strong enough to transition to the jet fighters. I.E. Enterprise was obsolete by the end of the war, despite all the good she accomplished in her distinguished career.

Looking at the CGI in this show, I think I could build the models, but have some doubts of doing the textures by myself. Partly because textures and materials have always been a struggle for me, and partly because I have always had less interest in 'make it pretty' and more interest in 'how does it work.'
Form follows Function: if it does something cool, it will look cool; somebody else who is better skilled at it can apply the paint.

I found another disk that talked over The Egyptian Book of the Dead, also by the History Channel. I would quibble one point: the program posits that Christians looked to the Egyptians when filling out their theology. My quibble: that is exactly backwards. The Egyptians were trying to emulate the doctrines, known today as christian, in order to get themselves into God's heaven.
To further elaborate, Adam and Eve were the first Christians, with the fullness of the Christian gospel with its associated rituals and covenants, including the teaching ritual of animal sacrifice in similitude of the sacrifice of the Savior, taught them by God and his angels, and then taught to their children, who passed it to Noah and his three sons and their wives. As they repopulated after the flood they taught it again, but as people are want to do some drifted away, this leading to the earliest Egyptians, and their desire to get into the same gospel, then it being corrupted into what the Egyptian cults became.
Or again said slightly different: all existent uplifting religious principles if honestly traced through the full record of history to their sources, were that full and honest record of history to be had, would ultimately be shown to today be some form of apostate Christianity. The Egyptian Book of the Dead, is a prime example: they seek through it what Abraham sought from God - to live with their families in eternity, with god as the recognized father of all.
The Christians did not get it from the Egyptians, the first Egyptians got it from their Christian progenitors who got it from Noah.
Moses did not get the Law of Moses from the Egyptians: he was taught the christian gospel by his father-in-law Jethro, who like their common progenitor Abraham, had that gospel and taught it to those around him. When Moses brought the first tablets down from the mount, Israel rejected the fullness and more so its covenants, and in punishment got the Law of Moses. I needn't reiterate this last point further, as Paul belabors it several times.