Do not confuse ambition with achievement. The one has nothing to do with the other. Ambition rewards ambitious government officials while achievers are sent off to the poorhouse. After ambition replaced achievement sloth became the most lavishly compensated personalty trait of all as personal political power and exorbitant incomes for doing nothing made a mockery out of public service.
About forty or so years ago the government embarked on a public relations campaign with the help of the Ministry of Propaganda. The Fourth & Fifth Estates (print journalism & television) told us that in order to attract the best people to government taxpayers must throw tons of money at them. The argument for gluttony at the public feed tub basically said that greedy people in government would improve government.
At the same time the best people began grabbing every tax dollar they could lay their hands on, military men and women, who actually defend this country, were told they already had it too good. You can see the culmination of the best people policy in the VA scandal. Every parasite, every illegal alien, is entitled to the best healthcare while veterans are left to die.
As the years rolled by, ambitious people grew the government like Topsy then called it achievement. Daniel Greenfield nails the topic pretty good:
I would add that selling the public something it does not want is achievement to liberals. They see selling as the greatest accomplishment of all. Every tax dollar they can steal is a fair sales commission in their eyes. Interestingly, they require the force of government to sell their products. In that sense they fail at their chosen profession, too. They achieve nothing for all of their ambition.
To be fair, super salesman Barack Taqiyya does have a dubious sale to his credit. Dubious because calling it a Peace Prize is a misnomer to begin with. The PP is often awarded for salesmanship rather than achievement, or to put it more succinctly it is based on selling the absence of war rather than predicated on preventing governments from engaging in institutional murder.
Finally, for all Barack Taqiyyas failures he still sees himself as is the super salesman that sold HillaryCare II. Never mind that Democrats in Congress rammed it down the publics throat:
About forty or so years ago the government embarked on a public relations campaign with the help of the Ministry of Propaganda. The Fourth & Fifth Estates (print journalism & television) told us that in order to attract the best people to government taxpayers must throw tons of money at them. The argument for gluttony at the public feed tub basically said that greedy people in government would improve government.
At the same time the best people began grabbing every tax dollar they could lay their hands on, military men and women, who actually defend this country, were told they already had it too good. You can see the culmination of the best people policy in the VA scandal. Every parasite, every illegal alien, is entitled to the best healthcare while veterans are left to die.
As the years rolled by, ambitious people grew the government like Topsy then called it achievement. Daniel Greenfield nails the topic pretty good:
I would add that selling the public something it does not want is achievement to liberals. They see selling as the greatest accomplishment of all. Every tax dollar they can steal is a fair sales commission in their eyes. Interestingly, they require the force of government to sell their products. In that sense they fail at their chosen profession, too. They achieve nothing for all of their ambition.
To be fair, super salesman Barack Taqiyya does have a dubious sale to his credit. Dubious because calling it a Peace Prize is a misnomer to begin with. The PP is often awarded for salesmanship rather than achievement, or to put it more succinctly it is based on selling the absence of war rather than predicated on preventing governments from engaging in institutional murder.
Finally, for all Barack Taqiyyas failures he still sees himself as is the super salesman that sold HillaryCare II. Never mind that Democrats in Congress rammed it down the publics throat:
