SPECIAL POST
Every single one of us has to be arriving at the same
conclusion: Our government has become
just too damned big for its britches.
One of the oldest political tricks in the world is to:
- find something that needs fixing
- create a law to address it
- create an agency to administer the law
- hire a bunch of friends to run the agency
- collect the political i.o.u.’s results at election time
We have more useless agencies in this country than we can
shake a stick at. Surely the country is
more populous, but it would seem to me we could address that with a few more employees
in existing agencies, not a whole slew of new agencies. Certainly we can see that with Congress
meeting year around, it doesn’t have enough to do and therefore spends its time
creating useless and intrusive laws; likewise, the result of too many agencies with
not enough work to do is too many regulations.
What we really need to do is to:
- put Congress on a six-month schedule
- slash the number of agencies to 2000 levels
- absorb the employees into the remaining agencies
- freeze hiring and let attrition reduce the number of employees to reasonable levels
- eliminate all government regulations enacted over the last 20 years, with the stipulation that they can only be reestablished if Congress agrees on a case-by-case basis
In so doing, we will kill many birds with one stone and will
cut the expense of our government immensely, thereby reducing or eliminating
our deficit and putting us on track to reduce our debt, while freeing up money
in the private sector to fuel the economy.
That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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