The USA Has More Czars Than Russia and Now Will Have a Pay Czar?
Think I’m kidding?
International Advisor and Carnegie Scholar, David Rothkopf reported on April 16, 2009 that Obama has now appointed more czars for America than the Romanov family of Russia at the turn of the last century.
“While it is harder to exactly count the number of Obama administration czars, with yesterday’s appointment it seems fair to say it is now certainly in excess of 18.”
“In addition to Bersin, we have energy czar Carol Browner, urban czar Adolfo Carrion, Jr., infotech czar Vivek Kundra, faith-based czar Joshua DuBois, health reform czar Nancy-Ann DeParle, new TARP czar Herb Allison, stimulus accountability czar Earl Devaney, non-proliferation czar Gary Samore, terrorism czar John Brennan, regulatory czar Cass Sunstein, drug czar Gil Kerlikowske, and Guantanamo closure czar Daniel Fried. We also have a host of special envoys that fall into the czar category including AfPak special envoy Richard Holbrooke, Mideast peace envoy George Mitchell, special advisor for the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia Dennis Ross, Sudan special envoy J. Scott Gration and climate special envoy Todd Stern. That’s 18.”
Today, the Wall Street Journal reports that Obama’s appointing a PAY CZAR. Oh goody:
“The Obama administration plans to appoint a “Special Master for Compensation” to ensure that companies receiving federal bailout funds are abiding by executive-pay guidelines, according to people familiar with the matter.”
“The administration is expected to name Kenneth Feinberg, who oversaw the federal government’s compensation fund for victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, to act as a pay czar for the Treasury Department, these people said.”
A “Special Master for Compensation?” A Pay Czar?
Really?
Obama supporters like to attack anyone who says Obama is a Socialist or a Communist. Think Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity.
I think it’s worse than Beck and Hannity even realize. When did the role of “Czar” become an acceptable title in American Government? When did the idea of a Special Master for Compensation become an acceptable idea?
An America with more czars than Mother Russia is not an America headed towards Socialism, it’s an America already embracing Communism.
God help us all.
