When you recognize the sheer numbers of government employees cashing paychecks across the board with zero qualifications you must acknowledge the iron boots being installed on us are reaching the millions as we speak, and though, presently, this is mostly figurative speech (kind of like Poetry), for waiving the actual physical torture we are paying an exorbitant price..in terms of liberty, property, and life’s savings, i.e., human dignity, –et cetera, et cetera; this is what we have grudgingly come to accept as the sort of SOFT TOTALITARIANISM lodged in our mists.