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WH asks for your input. Which agencies to eliminate?
April 15, 2017, 01:17 PM
jcsabolt2WH asks for your input. Which agencies to eliminate?
DOE, HUD, Bureau of Land Management, Homeland Security, ATF, reorganize the DOD...too many subagencies have redundant/overlapping missions. That's just off the top of my head.
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April 15, 2017, 01:25 PM
tatortoddSet up new streamlined non-union agenices and subagencies (only those required by the Constitution), close all existing agencies on a named date, and prior to that date let the gov't employees apply to the new non-union agency.
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DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. April 15, 2017, 01:49 PM
18DAII also requested that Lois Lerner and Hillary Clinton be prosecuted, James Comey fired and to withdraw from the United Nations.
Hey, a guy can hope cant he? Regards 18DAI
7+1 Rounds of hope and change
April 15, 2017, 02:04 PM
FN in MTDept of AG needs to be DOWNSIZED.
US Forest Service...Totally disband it. THE most worthless Agency going.
April 15, 2017, 02:25 PM
JALLENquote:
Originally posted by chellim1:
In the video on the website the OMB director says he wants to "fix" it but if you listen you will hear that by "fix" it he means making it more effective and more efficient, but not that there are things government should not do, no matter how efficient.
"....no matter how efficient." That's quite a concept isn't it?
In real life, I think we would not like a government that was efficient. We depend on incompetence, inefficiency, waste, corruption within bounds, to make life a bit more tolerable. Hard to cheat otherwise!
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RightwireHow about FEMA, the only agency that makes things worse when they arrive.
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There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. April 15, 2017, 03:43 PM
StramboThe fact that any of this is even a serious discussion and on the table at the highest levels...is a huge win on its own IMO. Things are moving the right way...
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Il Cattivo^^^ Oohhh, no. It's way too early to settle for that. Heads, my man, we want heads rolling down the sidewalk.
April 15, 2017, 03:54 PM
ulstermanquote:
Originally posted by Rightwire:
How about FEMA, the only agency that makes things worse when they arrive.
Walking, talking, cluster fuck.
April 15, 2017, 05:18 PM
mikeyspizzaThis could take a while
Might be easier to ID the ones we need, like DOD, Treasury, nuclear part of DOE, DOJ, Interior, State, VA, PTO, OMB, CIA, CDC, NIH, FAA, Customs and Border, ICE, etc.
List of federal agencies in the United StatesApril 15, 2017, 05:56 PM
zoom6zoomIt also needs to be made more difficult for these agencies to promulgate new regulations that have the weight of law without legislation or oversight.
I have my own style of humor. I call it Snarkasm. April 15, 2017, 06:03 PM
ZSMICHAELquote:
Might be easier to ID the ones we need, like DOD, Treasury, nuclear part of DOE, DOJ, Interior, State, VA, PTO, OMB, CIA, CDC, NIH, FAA, Customs and Border, ICE, etc.
What is the PTO?
April 16, 2017, 12:33 AM
zoom6zoomquote:
Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
quote:
Might be easier to ID the ones we need, like DOD, Treasury, nuclear part of DOE, DOJ, Interior, State, VA, PTO, OMB, CIA, CDC, NIH, FAA, Customs and Border, ICE, etc.
What is the PTO?
Patent Office
I have my own style of humor. I call it Snarkasm. April 16, 2017, 04:18 AM
XinTXquote:
Originally posted by zoom6zoom:
It also needs to be made more difficult for these agencies to promulgate new regulations that have the weight of law without legislation or oversight.
I'd like to make it FAR more difficult, as in impossible. Law making is supposed to reside with the legislative branch, not the executive. Giving law making authority to the executive is a gross bastardization of our Constitutional form of governance.
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April 16, 2017, 05:35 AM
mrapteam666Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Either completely liquidate it totally or gut it from the top down and start over.
It has been cancerous and corrupt since its inception in the 1800's and nothing has changed.
April 16, 2017, 09:19 AM
akcopnfbksDept. of Education, EPA, BATF, DEA, Homeland Security (and almost all of its included alphabet agencies.....Border Patrol & ICE can stick around, albeit in a strictly redefined & useful manner), IRS.
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April 16, 2017, 10:12 AM
rduckworATF first, Education, and EPA.
IRS? Well, yeah you can stay only as an address where I send my FLAT TAX PAYMENT!
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