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Originally posted by jljones: Dept of Education is a good start
My first thought too. What a monumental waste of taxpayer $$.
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Posts: 6653 | Location: Chicago, IL | Registered: December 17, 2007
FBI, CIA, NSA, need to be all combined into one agency. If not that combo cool, but some agencies should be combined and at least try to make them more efficient. Our government is massive, and they aren't all on the hill.
Entire thing needs to shrink as it is not sustainable. That means cuts everywhere. Military, a butter knife cut, other agencies like the IRS, need a samurai sword. We need to be able to pay our own bills and not borrow billions and trillions. Only way that happens is if everything is on the table.
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Posts: 13477 | Location: Down South | Registered: January 16, 2010
Why stop with DOE? Let's close the public schools and start with another way of educating our children.
Let the state give vouchers for a sum it is willing spend, good at any organization providing instruction. Let parents decide.
Seldom has so much been spent for so little result. Nrarly anything would be more effective.
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Posts: 48369 | Location: Texas hill country | Registered: July 04, 2005
We do NOT need inspectors looking over our shoulder, nitpicking alleged infractions in order to justify their salaries which we shouldn't be paying in the first place.
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Posts: 32185 | Location: Central Florida, Orlando area | Registered: January 03, 2010
I'll add yet another in what I am sure would be a long line of +1's for DoEd. Read an article a while back that looked at the data, and the US has declined in where we stand vs the rest of the world in education every year since the formation of DoEd. It was founded by Carter as a sop to the teacher's unions that got him elected. Education is NOT a federal issue anyway. And all it ever was from the get go was a means of funneling money to DhimocRATS.
I'd put the Commerce Department right after it. As well as DoE. The entire reason given for starting DoE was to make the US more energy independent. It's done nothing of the sort. Labor Dept as well.
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This is like asking which quill of the porcupine needs to be pulled first. I will add to those already mentioned the Department of Agriculture.
We have to write them a check every year for a food handlers license even though we do not handle any food. They are supposed to inspect our warehouse annually but haven't seen anyone in years but we always receive notice to renew our license.
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