[oramit]

Why this amorphous "the government" wording? The people elected Congress and Presidents, who did this over decades with popular support. Executive agencies are not unaccountable. They have specific charters and there is a huge volume of rules they have to follow. eg:(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_Procedure_Act). Congress writes their budgets every year and the heads of those agencies are reviewed at congressional and presidential levels.

[rayiner]

> unaccountable

Accountability means democratic accountability. The APA is not meaningful democratic accountability--it just means that lawyers like me end up running the country.