"The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man...we forget who it is that pays. It is the forgotten man." -William Graham Sumner
Examples abound of the excesses of federal government officials and unelected bureaucrats virtue signaling at the expense of taxpaying citizens.
This week it was another unelected bureaucrat, the Secretary of Education, giving away the labor of the Forgotten Man to those he deemed cheated by certain institutions of higher learning (see "Biden Admin Cancels $55.6 Million in Student Loan Debt").
Readers may be forgiven for overlooking this story. After all, it was a mere $55.6 million.Yet, another $1 billion was taken from the Forgotten Man earlier in the year to give to those the bureaucracy deemed “cheated.”
And who knows, maybe those students were cheated. In saner times--living under the system our Founders created--those students would have pursued the schools to get their money back or taken the loss.
But today, with the not-so-newly found powers of the federal government, the Secretary transfers the debt from those who incurred it onto the back of the Forgotten Man--that is, the taxpayer--with the stroke of his pen.
The Founders didn’t forget the Forgotten Man. Instead, they provided the solution to the problem we see today: a corrupted federal government that will not correct itself. It is right there in Article V.
