After just one month Mick Mulvaney has begun transforming the CFPB. Here is the before and after mission statement. Pretty dang great.


https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/944237830104109057

It's too long.

Mission statements should be sound bites.

So cut the 21st century stuff (if it exists today, it's a 21st century agency).

Cut the market stuff (the agency name says it all).

Cut the enforce/regulate/deregulate stuff (it's the raisin d'etre of government).

That leaves something like:

"The CFPB helps businesses and individuals benefit from federal consumer financial laws."

or

"The CFPB helps businesses and individuals understand federal consumer financial laws."


Where is my cushy Schedule C job?

Another layer of Government being where it never should have been. Added Taxpayer expenses and the bloating of DC, which needs to be slashed dramatically!
These are a "States Rights" function like so many other Federal intrusions. ie Education, EPA, Healthcare, etc.

Very impressed w Mick Mulvaney

One of President Trump's best characteristics is finding the right people for the job and letting them loose to do their mission

Another good characteristic is recognizing when someone isn't doing well, and replacing them

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Originally posted by Sig2340:
It's too long.

Mission statements should be sound bites.

So cut the 21st century stuff (if it exists today, it's a 21st century agency).

Cut the market stuff (the agency name says it all).

Cut the enforce/regulate/deregulate stuff (it's the raisin d'etre of government).

That leaves something like:

"The CFPB helps businesses and individuals benefit from federal consumer financial laws."

or

"The CFPB helps businesses and individuals understand federal consumer financial laws."


Where is my cushy Schedule C job?

I disagree. Vision statements should be short. A mission statement needs the "who, what, when, where, why."

Why does it even still exist at all?

Shut it down, and move on.

Write its Obituary, not rewrite the Mission Statement.

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Originally posted by Strambo:

quote:

Originally posted by Sig2340:
It's too long.

Mission statements should be sound bites.

So cut the 21st century stuff (if it exists today, it's a 21st century agency).

Cut the market stuff (the agency name says it all).

Cut the enforce/regulate/deregulate stuff (it's the raisin d'etre of government).

That leaves something like:

"The CFPB helps businesses and individuals benefit from federal consumer financial laws."

or

"The CFPB helps businesses and individuals understand federal consumer financial laws."


Where is my cushy Schedule C job?

I disagree. Vision statements should be short. A mission statement needs the "who, what, when, where, why."

In the fed.gov world, more often than not, there is no vision statement, only a mission statement, and they either more visionary than mission related or are way too long.

DoD, for example, doesn't have a vision statement, only a mission statement. "The mission of the Department of Defense is to provide the military forces needed to deter war and to protect the security of our country." That is a vision statement masquerading as a mission statement. https://www.defense.gov/About/

EPA's is also a vision statement masquerading as a mission statement: The mission of EPA is to protect human health and the environment. https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/o...ssion-and-what-we-do

DoI Mission Statement is too long ad can loose all that I struck: The Department of the Interior protects and manages the Nation's natural resources and cultural heritage ; provides scientific and other information about those resources; and honors its trust responsibilities or special commitments to American Indians, Alaska Natives, and affiliated island communities. https://www.doi.gov/whoweare/Mission-Statement

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Originally posted by downtownv:
Another layer of Government being where it never should have been. Added Taxpayer expenses and the bloating of DC, which needs to be slashed dramatically!
These are a "States Rights" function like so many other Federal intrusions. ie Education, EPA, Healthcare, etc.

This, in spades!!!

Feds have multiplied to the point that they seem to believe that whatever they want to do to us is by definition the right thing.

My guestimate is that some 90% of the federal gubbermint needs to go. Turn everything but national defense and interstate commerce back to the states. Let them deal with it as the VOTERS in those states see fit.

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Originally posted by 46and2:
Why does it even still exist at all?

Shut it down, and move on.

Write its Obituary, not rewrite the Mission Statement.

That is certainly the preferred objective. It never should have been put in place to begin with, but unfortunately will take legislation to get rid of - which means 60 votes in the Senate. They would be under 50 at this point, so it's not an option.

At least it can be gutted and turned from a bureaucratic nightmare, churning out hundreds of new regulations per month into an agency looking to cut regulations.

"A government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth.”
-Ronald Reagan Link

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Originally posted by 46and2:
Why does it even still exist at all?...

So that politicians can serve themselves under the guise of serving the people.

Bama is right, of course.

Tis a shame but definitely better than nothing.

well, one way to kill it is to simply un-fund it