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Just What Government Agencies Would YOU Shut Down?
January 20, 2018, 09:58 AM
ridewvJust What Government Agencies Would YOU Shut Down?
Not critical ones like defense, transportation, SS, Border Security, National Parks
. But other than the employees themselves who would miss the Department of Ed or Energy? Name some more. This might be an opportunity to temporarily shut down the ones that really won't be missed, then make them permanently gone?
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January 20, 2018, 10:03 AM
kz1000HUD.
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January 20, 2018, 10:07 AM
Elk HunterI would start with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, then the EPA Not necessarily in that order, though.
The EPA has screwed more Americans than perhaps any other single gubbermint department.
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January 20, 2018, 10:08 AM
Z06Heard we (actual taxpayers... the 47%) are paying $1M/minute for non-essential government agency employees.
Why?
Good place to start.
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January 20, 2018, 10:08 AM
JALLENA noble idea, certainly, but not likely to be implemented, because every dime the government spends has a constituency that lives off the government cheese, and protection from a squad of Congressmen who receive adequate support from and owes them support in return.
There are agencies and bureaus hardly anyone has ever heard of doing “God’s Work”.
It seems to come with the territory. There is supposedly a family in England who have the right to watch the coastline at Dover, and warn the Crown of any invasion. This family has been doing this vital service for hundreds of years and draws a stipend from the Crown therefor.
No one can remember when the last invasion was, but they are on the job just in case.
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
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darthfusterI'd start with the BATF for constitutional reasons. Leave a skeletal few, roll them into the FBI an with NO interpretive powers. Education department next. EPA. BLM. And finally, I'd suspend all benefits to congress except for an hourly wage for time actually working. No perks. No pension. I'd privatize NASA. I'd make the IRS disappear with a 20% tax on income after a base level.
You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier January 20, 2018, 10:27 AM
ridewvquote:
Originally posted by JALLEN:
A noble idea, certainly, but not likely to be implemented, because every dime the government spends has a constituency that lives off the government cheese, and protection from a squad of Congressmen who receive adequate support from and owes them support in return...
I really think some need completely eliminated and any real audit of their achievement will reveal there has been very, very, little. Others cut 15% each year for three years.
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January 20, 2018, 11:24 AM
2AdefenderEducation
IRS
BATFE
EPA
NLRB
I’m sure there are a few other worthless ones that need to go.
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January 20, 2018, 11:28 AM
nhtagmemberI would not shut down but eliminate entirely:
EPA
Education
HUD
VA
BATFE
Department of Agriculture
that would be a small start
also the Department of Energy (after transferring the nuke side)
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January 20, 2018, 12:01 PM
BBMWFor all those busting on the EPA, I'll point out that I'd rather not see the air I breath, and have god know what crud in the water I drink. I fully admit they've gone off the reservation lately, especially in terms of try regulate things carbon output. So they need to be pinned back, but they need to be around.
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Originally posted by Elk Hunter:
I would start with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, then the EPA Not necessarily in that order, though.
The EPA has screwed more Americans than perhaps any other single gubbermint department.
January 20, 2018, 12:28 PM
EdmondTSA. They are the Totally Stupid Assholes afterall...
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January 20, 2018, 12:38 PM
12131DHS
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January 20, 2018, 12:39 PM
flesheatingvirusBATFE and DEA for sure.
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January 20, 2018, 12:39 PM
V-TailHard to believe that it actually took eight posts to get to the IRS, and eleven to get to TSA.
הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים January 20, 2018, 12:40 PM
12131quote:
Originally posted by V-Tail:
Hard to believe that it actually took eight posts to get to the IRS, and eleven to get to TSA.
And 12 to get to DHS.
Q
January 20, 2018, 12:42 PM
zipridersonDoes Congress count?
January 20, 2018, 12:48 PM
Scoutmasterquote:
Originally posted by JALLEN:
A noble idea, certainly, but not likely to be implemented, because every dime the government spends has a constituency that lives off the government cheese, and protection from a squad of Congressmen who receive adequate support from and owes them support in return....
Such is the reality of much of the fed gov't, prob all of CA gov't.
I would prob shutdown the Dept of Education first. Their primary goal is to brainwash the rising generations with the parasite of socialism.
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ensigmaticGeez... name one.
Put all their acronyms on a roulette wheel, spin, drop the ball. Wherever it lands: That one first. Keep going until the budget is balanced.
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Scoutmasterquote:
Originally posted by BBMW:
For all those busting on the EPA, I'll point out that I'd rather not see the air I breath, and have god know what crud in the water I drink. I fully admit they've gone off the reservation lately, especially in terms of try regulate things carbon output. So they need to be pinned back, but they need to be around.
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Originally posted by Elk Hunter:
I would start with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, then the EPA Not necessarily in that order, though.
The EPA has screwed more Americans than perhaps any other single gubbermint department.
So the environment would now be unlivable except for the intervention of the EPA?
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it"
- Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 January 20, 2018, 01:01 PM
ensigmaticNote: Jeopardy quoting style corrected.
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Originally posted by Scoutmaster:
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Originally posted by BBMW:
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Originally posted by Elk Hunter:
I would start with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, then the EPA Not necessarily in that order, though.
The EPA has screwed more Americans than perhaps any other single gubbermint department.
For all those busting on the EPA, I'll point out that I'd rather not see the air I breath, and have god know what crud in the water I drink. I fully admit they've gone off the reservation lately, especially in terms of try regulate things carbon output. So they need to be pinned back, but they need to be around.
So the environment would now be unlivable except for the intervention of the EPA?
*Hmph*
I don't know about "unliveable," but the evidence conclusively shows that, left to itself, industry will pollute indiscriminately.
You develop a whole new appreciation for pollution when you start pumping your own water, trust me
That being said: The EPA, just like every other you-pick-the-acronym agency in the US government, has been off the reservation for years.
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe
"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher