INTIMATION OF CIVIL SERVICE COLLAPSE

Sir,

On September 14, 1901, William McKinley, the 25th President of the USA lay dead, slain by an assassin. The man who would take up his mantle, Theodore Roosevelt, would go on to dominate American politics, that his face, alongside that of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, would be immortalised by Gutzon Borglum through the Mount Rushmore National Museum. Roosevelt, breaking precedent, would be the only one of the illustrious Mount Rushmore quartet not to win his renown through civil war or bloody revolution. Instead, he would usher in the 20th Century by fighting the twin scourges of industrial monopoly and civil service corruption.

Corruption

The sort of corruption that retards, perverts and constrains the goals and aims that drive civil services. His life provides a stark example of the parallel evils at the heart of monopoly driven industries and a civil service that has lost its way. The worst tendencies, of industrial monopolies, are the same that flourish just beneath the unassuming surface of the civil services, i.e the ridiculous and exorbitant billing, an unwillingness to engage with the public and an increasing lack of transparency. The emergence of these same traits in our own civil services should signal to everyone the dire straits we will soon be forced to navigate. The first real intimation of a civil service collapse, in our little own part of the world, is the extraordinary and unqualified injustice that has been inflicted upon ordinary people by the healthcare sector of this country. Like a dog, long used to the lash, the people have been beaten, so repeatedly, that when a blow is not forthcoming, they are surprised. These thrashings have been administered in the form of a continued and unreasonable lack of medication.

Responsible

A responsible citizen shudders to think what effect this must have on households reliant upon senior citizens, who themselves are dependent upon the miserly stipend provided to them by the State. It would be irresponsible, however, not to point out that the value of the work done by social welfare is dependent upon the stability of the other civil services, because if they do something as irresponsible as indiscriminately as the aforementioned lack of medication, the aid that the social welfare programme does provide, is greatly diminished.

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