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Government Corruption
Robin Burk: Cleaning Out the Swamp
2024-08-04
[ChroniclesMagazine] Mucking Out the Beltway’s Augean Stables
Robin calmly moves between deep history, close examination of the current problem, and the big picture — always worth reading.
Posted by:Ulang Ulalet4662

#4  Anyone have a river or two handy?Government-created levees prevent those rivers from doing any good.... until they fail catastrophically, and then all bets are off...
Posted by: Glenmore   2024-08-04 15:39  

#3  The old republic was never set up to be a world power. The needs and ambitions of a world power require the concentration of authority, power and accumulation and expenditure of wealth that are inconsistent with a republican form of government. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Power becomes its own end.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-08-04 10:42  

#2  Nice, you are a master.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2024-08-04 10:34  

#1  Anyone have a river or two handy?
Posted by: Mercutio   2024-08-04 09:11  

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