{"id":2446637,"date":"2019-07-22T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/its-all-academic-with-administrative-state\/"},"modified":"2019-07-23T07:27:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T13:27:58","slug":"its-all-academic-with-administrative-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/its-all-academic-with-administrative-state\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s all academic with \u2018administrative state\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Why are academics politically progressive? Symbiosis with the \u201cadministrative state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The federal \u201cadministrative state\u201d has grown to 2.1 million full-time, civilian federal employees receiving $175 billion a year from taxpayers. Academics\u2019 raison d\u2019\u00eatre is to invent \u201cproblems\u201d real or imagined. The administrative state\u2019s raison d\u2019\u00eatre is to invent \u201csolutions\u201d whether or not effective. A match made in heaven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Academics proclaim a \u201cproblem\u201d and the administrative state declares a \u201csolution.\u201d The administrative state gets excuses for its existence and constant growth, and the academics get power and fame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">What do the citizens get? The bill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Maurice Emmer<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/its-all-academic-with-administrative-state\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are academics politically progressive? Symbiosis with the \u201cadministrative state.\u201d The federal \u201cadministrative state\u201d has grown to 2.1 million full-time, civilian federal employees receiving $175 billion a year from taxpayers. Academics\u2019 raison d\u2019\u00eatre is to invent \u201cproblems\u201d real or imagined. The administrative state\u2019s raison d\u2019\u00eatre is to invent \u201csolutions\u201d whether or not effective. A match [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 19:15:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2446653,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446637\/revisions\/2446653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}