Bureaucracy has been growing since the moment it was created in the United States and that is not

good. It is not good for the nation and it is not good for our ideals. The United States was founded on the ground of freedom, liberty, and the voice of the people. The bureaucracy is not helping those ideals; it is actually doing the opposite. Bureaucracy is taking away the essential idea the United States was found under: the voice of the people. Each day, each moment that passes bureaucracy is taking over another aspect in the citizen's life that further removes the people of United States from their central government. That is what our founding fathers feared when they created the United States. Their fears is coming true slowly so no one notices it, and stop the process and the ones that notices it, does not want to stand out. Bureaucracy is not only taking away the voice of the people and further removing people from the national government; it is also getting so big. People are so dependent on it that it will be next to impossible to remove it from our government when the time comes. Before the Constitution was ratified, there was a debate between the Antifederalist and the Federalist about whether they should have a Bill of Rights. Both side brought up some good points but as it can be seen the Antifederalist won the round. Even though this debate is done and over with, we still have the same problems. Both side agreed on creating a government controlled by the people but this is not the case today. People are not the one that the controls the government; it is the special interest groups and the bureaucracy that are controlling the government. People are so uninformed about the government that they are unaware of the basic events that are taking place. It is not the media's fault or the people's; it is the government's fault because the government has created so many bureaucracies that it is so big and complex, people do not have the mind or the time to understand all its processes and functions. So is bureaucracy aiding the people when there are too many? In his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln said, "This nation will have a new birth" So does that mean this nation never had a birth because when Lincoln said this quote there was a bureaucracy, maybe not as big as it is today but it was there, since bureaucracy is not of the people or helping the people? It might have been created for the people but it is not actually doing a lot for the people. People are getting more frustrated with it more than anything. It is slowing down the process of what the people want. It is also creating more problems and more controversies. James Madison, the father of our constitution, wrote in the Federalist Paper, "There are two methods of curing the mischiefsthe one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects." Bureaucracy is a mischief because all it does is "turns normal people, granted a smidgen of authority, into rule-bound technocrats and twists candid conversation about real issues into jargon-laden gobbledygook. In short, bureaucracy gums up the works." So should we remove it since the federal government cannot control the effects it has on the citizens of the United States? Well it seems like James Madison thought that was case but what he did not take into account is that a mischief could be so big and people dependent--the bureaucracy--that to destroy it would annihilate the country too. "Declaring war on bureaucracy is not unlike declaring war on, say, cancer or drugs. You know going in that total victory is impossible and that the battle will be never-ending." This quote says it all. Even though the bureaucracy is taking away the voice of the people from the government,

the people have no chance of total victory if they do decide to declare a war against it. The people "will never be able to eliminate every vestige of deadening bureaucracy" because it is not unconstitutional and the President and the Congress needs it to carry out their duties but that does not mean it has to be so vast. The Constitution's preamble begins with "we the people of the United States" which would mean people have a vast say in what the government says and do but that is not the case even though the House of Representative represents the people because one representative represents so many people.