re: #87 Political Atheist

Featherbedding, rainmaking…. The careers that depend on the threat will not end or diminish with the threat itself easily.

Just so, and that is a fundamental part of sane conservative suspicion about the expansion of government: When government hires people to combat a threat or assist a group of people, then those people will find aspects of the threat to fight or people ‘in need of help’, even if their original purpose has been attended to. They will do so because their jobs depend on it.

Note: This problem can and does occur in the private sector as well, but the profit motive there tends to reduce its occurrence.