Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Superfluous Agencies

I was reading the newspaper yesterday, and it talked about how the Obama administration wanted to start a spending freeze for parts of the budget for this next year to get the government's finances under control. It also talked about how he wanted to appoint a commission to investigate congressional spending. That got me thinking, "Isn't the House of Representatives our 'commission' on spending? Isn't that a part of their job. And for that matter, isn't there also the CBO and a myriad of committees that bills pass through in order to make sure they are sound?" I guess we've gotten to a point where elected officials are too busy doing things they weren't elected for that they don't have time to do their jobs the way they should.

For that matter, isn't one of the Presidency's major responsibilities homeland security? Why is it then that we need a whole new agency to deal with that? The list of redundant and unnecessary programs and agencies goes on and on. Why can't we streamline government just like you would a business to cut down on cost and waste? Oh, it's because the only thing some of these guys are good at is spending other people's money.

2 comments:

  1. The good thing, Tom, is that the President is already on this issue. He had the exact same thought so one of the first things he did was create a committee and hire a new administrative position to oversee that committee who's sole purpose was to make sure that the committees and administration didn't cause excess waste. Brilliant!

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  2. I think we are dealing with either malfeasance or misfeasance. There is an old rule of thumb that you should never ascribe to evil intent what could be simple stupity. However, I think 10% of Obama's people do want the US to fail so they can remake it. The others are just blinded. And they are falling a away, leaving the hardcore statists. Kingmen, if you prefer.

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