THE REAL ENEMY ISN’T IN CONGRESS—IT’S IN THE CUBICLE: How Bureaucrats Hijacked America and Turned It into a Permanent Power Machine

EDITOR'S NOTES

The article “Public Enemies: Government Bureaucrats as Societal Parasites,” published on Mises.org, is a must-read—but let’s be real. Mises Wire articles are brilliant, but they often employ a language that is not commonly used in everyday American life. The truths are powerful. The ideas are essential. But they’re buried in economic theory and academic jargon.

So I’m breaking it down for you. Plain and simple. No footnotes. No ivory tower fluff. Just the raw truth about the bloated army of bureaucrats who’ve turned your freedom into a paper trail and your paycheck into their piggy bank.

Let’s get into it.

Sam Clemons Oct 6, 25

📢 THE BUREAUCRATIC CANCER: THEY DON’T PRODUCE—THEY LEECH

Every time you clock in, the bureaucrats clock out. You work. They scheme. You hustle to make ends meet. They shuffle papers, write rules, and make your life harder.

They don't create wealth. They don’t build anything. They regulate, tax, and punish. These aren’t public servants. They’re government parasites—leeching off your labor while hiding behind six-figure pensions and lifetime job security.

And they never pay the price for failure. When they screw up? They get more money. When you screw up? You get audited, fined, or arrested. That’s not freedom. That’s a rigged system.

💥 FAILURE IS REWARDED—IF YOU’RE A BUREAUCRAT

Schools fail? More money for the district.
Welfare doesn't end poverty? Expand the program.
Feds bungle everything from Afghanistan to FEMA? They get promotions.

In the private sector, if you fail, you’re fired. In D.C., failure means a bigger budget and a fancier title. This is by design. Bureaucracies don’t solve problems—they milk them.

That’s why the Department of Education still exists. That’s why the CDC still has funding. That’s why the IRS still has a job.

🏛️ THE CIVIL SERVICE SCAM: LIFETIME POWER WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY

Once upon a time, when a new president came in, he cleaned house. Fired the old cronies. Hired new ones. It wasn’t perfect, but it kept power rotating.

Then came the so-called “Civil Service Reform”—and with it, permanent power for unelected elites. Bureaucrats got lifetime tenure. Couldn’t be fired. Couldn’t be challenged. They became a permanent ruling class.

You didn’t vote for them. You can’t remove them. But they write the rules you live by.

That’s not democracy. That’s tyranny with a smiley face and a pension.

👁️ WHO’S REALLY RUNNING THE SHOW?

Let me be clear: the people you see on TV aren’t running this country. The real power lives in the shadows of federal agencies:

The EPA shuts down your farm.
The ATF raids your home.
The IRS bleeds your bank account.
The CDC locks your kids inside.
The Fed manipulates your dollar.

They don’t answer to voters. They answer to other bureaucrats, to special interests, and worst of all, to the banking elite that controls it all from behind the scenes.

The same elite who inflate your dollar and devalue your labor. The same elite who bail out Wall Street and bankrupt Main Street.

🇺🇸 THE FOUNDERS WARNED US

The Founders didn’t fight a war so bureaucrats could rule from behind desks. They gave us a Constitution to limit government, not to create a Leviathan of agencies and regulations.

John C. Calhoun was right: the true class war in America isn’t between rich and poor. It’s between taxpayers and tax-consumers. And the tax-consumers—the bureaucrats—are winning.

⚠️ WAKE UP OR LOSE IT ALL

You’re being distracted. While you're watching Netflix or arguing over TikTok trends, your freedoms are evaporating—regulated out of existence by some unelected desk jockey in D.C.

It’s time to stop pretending we live in a constitutional republic.

This is administrative rule—a new kind of soft dictatorship. Quiet. Paper-pushing. Deadly.

🔥 CALL TO ACTION: FIGHT BACK BEFORE THEY OWN EVERYTHING

There are still ways to protect yourself. But time is running out. The system is rigged to collapse—and when it does, you don’t want to be caught holding the bag.

Start by arming yourself with knowledge they don’t want you to have:

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