It has taken President Barack Obama less than eight months to do what imperial Russia could not do in 400 years.
Taxpayers for Common Sense reports that Obama has appointed 31 “czars.” That’s more than ruled Russia during its entire imperial history.
Obama has appointed a California water czar, a Mideast peace czar and a Mideast policy czar, a pay czar (to determine how much the private sector should pay, not the government), a health care czar, an energy czar and a green jobs czar, a Sudan czar, a climate change czar and numerous others, with the promise of more to come. And, if you can’t keep track of all the czars, don’t worry. Obama has also appointed an information czar.
The president should feel right at home when he visits Russia this week.
Few of these czars require any congressional approval, but Obama has given many of them power over cabinet-level officials who are subject to confirmation.
Taxpayers for Common Sense says all these appointments don’t guarantee that the federal bureaucracy will work any better. If anything, the group notes, the appointments simply add another layer to that bureaucracy, something that rarely makes the government more responsive to taxpayers.
More worrisome is the clear trend towards the government, especially the federal government, getting involved in an increasing amount of our daily lives. Equally troubling is the idea that the solution to any problem that faces us is a stronger hand on the reins.
The czars did Russian no favors. We have no reason to expect they will do the United States any good.
The Daily Citizen
Opinion
July 8, 2009
Too many czars
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