The Puppeteers Quotes

“bleachers,”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“In a May 2016 report, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found the database contained images of over 411 million people, only about 30 million of whom were “criminal and civil mugshots.”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“Daily Signal. “If an individual is dealing with government—whether for Social Security, Medicaid, or veterans’ benefits—when a government clerk tells them to register to vote, the typical reaction for someone getting government benefits is: ‘I better vote for the party in power, or my benefits will be denied.”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“taxpayer-funded ‘get out the vote’ effort designed to benefit the president’s political party.”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“affiliation.”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“fashion, to protect federal employees from political coercion in the workplace, and to ensure that federal employees are advanced based on merit and not based on political”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“Elections are administered by states. Federal employees are hired to administer federal programs, not to help the ruling party get out the vote to specific groups that tend to vote for the ruling party.”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“information,” and to “combat misinformation.”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“Instead, she embraced equity, saying, “Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place.”7 This idea completely rejects the very American premise of meritocracy.”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“structure unconstitutional.60 But that ruling merely enabled a president to appoint the director. It didn’t remove any of the troubling antidemocratic structural barriers that let the agency run unchecked.”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“landmark Dodd-Frank Act, the agency was inherently political—not focused so much on consumers as on politics. The agency even writes its own budget.59 Only a filibuster-proof majority could rein it in. It had a fully autonomous CFPB director. That changed with a 2020 Supreme Court ruling finding the agency’s”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“As implemented by President Obama in his”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“Campaign finance data later confirmed that 100 percent of campaign donations by employees of the bureau had gone to Democrats or left-leaning independents, making it the most partisan agency in the federal government.57”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“agency with Democrats “top to bottom.”56”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“Democrat who could not be easily removed by a subsequent president. Second, they funded the agency through the profits of the Federal Reserve rather than through congressional appropriations, ensuring there would be no oversight, accountability, or budgetary constraints. Finally, according to Rubin, they staffed the”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“create a regulatory agency independent from politics, just an agency independent from Republicans.”55 From his firsthand experience, Rubin identified three ways Democrats weaponized the agency against their political opponents from the start. First, they made sure the director was a partisan”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“and losers, tilting the field to the left, unhindered by interference from the public or their elected representatives. Congress can’t touch it. Former CFPB enforcement attorney Ronald Rubin explained, “In 2010, the Democratic House of Representatives, filibuster-proof Senate, and president did not intend to”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“The new bureaucracy, launched in 2011, was considered by many on the left to be one of the Obama administration’s signature accomplishments, and was supposed to even the playing field between consumers and financial institutions.54 What it did instead was allow the left to pick winners”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“anthropologist Jason Hickel observed, “No energy is innocent. The only truly clean energy is less energy.”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“the federal government is broke. Anything more that Congress spends must be borrowed. And interest rates on that borrowed money increased steadily following COVID-related government spending sprees written by Nancy Pelosi’s Democratic House leadership under both President Trump and President Biden.”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“American Rescue Plan, and a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.3 All of that is above and beyond the $30 trillion the United States currently owes and the $160 trillion–plus in unfunded liabilities (promises we’ve made, but haven’t funded).4 Given that tax revenues are projected to be just over $4 trillion a year, it’s safe to say that”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“spend $73 trillion over ten years.1 He kept his promise to raise taxes, signing the ironically named Inflation Reduction Act in August 2022. Though the bill does nothing to reduce inflation, according to the Congressional Budget Office, it sucks $737 billion out of the U.S. economy.2 That came on the heels of a $1.9 trillion”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“In early 2022, calling for “the highest sustained tax burden in the nation’s history,” President Joe Biden released an eye-popping budget proposal that would”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“What they really drive companies toward is a market that looks more like China’s than America’s—with a uniform progressive agenda.”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“calling the move “small but meaningful.”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, not meeting the demand for its product. The new five-year plan released in 2020, which included “input from shareholders,” was a step toward a fundamental rethinking of the company’s business model. Exxon agreed to cut future capital spending by billions of dollars, but activists still weren’t happy,”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“or at least courtesy of their proxies. Three of the company’s twelve board seats were now occupied by activist environmentalists determined to refocus the company on the long-term investment into renewable energy.12 It was no coincidence that the company subsequently announced a plan focused”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“elections might not have been so acute. But by June 2021, all of that had changed. Powerful shareholders had listened to Biden’s rhetoric. Not only had the pandemic lockdowns of the previous year wreaked havoc on demand, but Exxon itself had undergone a transformation, courtesy of shareholders—”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico and invest $2 billion in terminal and transportation expansion, a move the company said was made possible by “changes in the U.S. corporate tax rate,” that is, the Trump tax cuts.11 Had they stuck to that plan, the pain Americans were experiencing at the pumps in the lead-up to the midterm”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America

“This is a question asked by Joe Biden, who in 2019 promised, “I guarantee you. We’re going to end fossil fuel,” and yet now seemed oblivious to the conditions created by his own words.10 Before Biden’s green regime came to power, ExxonMobil had announced in 2018 an aggressive plan to triple daily production in the”
― Jason Chaffetz, The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America