This must be oversimplified. It can't actually be the truth, it must only be a cynical wisdom. Yet doesn't it seem that the best way for a government to make its populace dependent on it is to mistreat them? That way their their only relief is to petition another part of the government to make it stop. Wages, housing, civil liberties - each is now the government giving with one hand and taking with the other.
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Noting particularly, in the document linked below, the line:
"federal agencies are often responsive to congressional concern".
When I got a job in the USA, getting my foreign-born spouse permission to live in the USA was an iterative process, each form with a stiff fee, seemingly two steps back for each step forward, until I contacted my congressman's local office. Then the path was clear, the road was smooth, the process was efficient, and silence was replaced by regular updates of where our case was in the processing queue. https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R44726.pdf#page=5
I concluded at the time that the difficulty and opacity of the executive-branch process was intended by congress, so that they could get word-of-mouth credit for working such miracles.
This is kinda how abusive relationships work, isn't it?
Good pickup. It's a lot like an abusive relationship.
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