How To Tame a Bureaucracy? Get Rid of It

Perhaps someone can enlighten me on anything the Department of Education does that adds value to the education of our children, because I can't think of any.

#1, what it does id further the commie take-over of our Republic. The only good commie is a dead commie.

It won’t happen, if ever, until we run out of other people’s money. That won’t be for another 10 - 15 years.

The Bureaucratic State (BS) will not go silently into the night. Thorough analysis of job functionality of the BS is mandatory, eliminate redundancy of functionality. Each agency doesn't need it's own HR staff, etc. Thorough cutting of the BS workforce, 50% minimum, is necessary. Those that remain and the functions should be scattered across the 50 states and no Bureaucrats should be working in DC. In other words, slice and dice the BS, period, no Joke.

Blah blah blah, but then blabbity blah... The single biggest voting block in the country is the MILLIONS of minions in the national bureaucracy. Does ANYONE actually think that they will vote themselves out of a job?? Just sayin'

Let's face it! nothing will change until WTP rise up and take back our country. I use drag a lot on this site, and the reason I use that term is because of its militancy. We can vote in people that we believe will do what's right, but time after time, many of those people will fall to the temptation to enrich themselves monetarily or to gain power. The culture is so strong that they can't resist. They become a part of the unaccountable elite, and it becomes hard to believe they've betrayed us, and then it's hard to vote them out. They vote against us, commit crimes, and we seem unable do anything to stop them. They come after US before we can get to them. The problem is so deep, only a good dragging will turn things around. But, we're a divided nation, and government on all levels has become this behemoth. The powers have entrenched every agency with their minions, and they have access to our money and the nation's resources. Who does the dragging? I don't know. Once the dragging is done, then what? I don't know. One thing I know, we are not made of the stuff our founding fathers were made of.

The IRS couldn't be "tamed" in its current configiration, Double its size and armed to the teeth it will be even more abusive than can be imagined.

...with extreme prejudice.

Absolutely accurate. If you try to trim a bureaucracy they instantly go into protective retaliation mode, and figure out what the MOST popular thing that they control is, and they cut THAT in order to inflect the most possible pain, like a robber caught in the act taking a hostage. "If you try to arrest me, I'll kill this kid" is what they try to do, and a bureaucracy does exactly the same thing. Cut the National Park Service budget....and you can be certain that they would close Yellostone and the Grand Canyon to visitors to cause the MOST pain, rather than the rational thing of closing down tiny obscure parks with few visitors - that doesn't scare people into stopping the cutting. That's why the robbers take women or kids as hostages.....the people most innocent, most valuable, that will get them the most power. Erase the CDC. Erase the FBI. Erase the Department of Education. Those three cause HUGE harm all the time, just stop doing that harm, and let other state and private organizations take up any actual useful functions if any are discovered.

It isn't just the FBI which is beyond redemption. The author correct. It is the entire federal apparatus with which we are at war and by which we are becoming impoverished.

There should only be four cabinet departments - - State, Defense, Treasury, and Justice - - AND - - there should not be ANY federal land - - outside of the District Of Columbia. That would define the size and scope of the federal government. If the Pubbies were conscious - - I'd urge them to adopt that platform. But - - you can't reason with the comatose.

Word of the day: cruft. A jargon word for anything that is left over, redundant and getting in the way. It is used particularly for defective, superseded, useless, superfluous, or dysfunctional elements in computer software. Worked in the computer industry for more than 10 years and never heard this word. =8^)

Three strict rules: 1. Freeze numbers. Cannot hire unless equal number is reduced 2. Eliminate unions. The ‘owners’ here are taxpayers. You can’t negotiate with yourselves. 3. Introduce annual merit ranking. Bottom ten percent automatically terminated.

The Brownstone Institute should propose the end of brown-nosing bureaucrats to the Uni-party.

Governments main job is to make more government...no matter the 'entity' doesn't do anything, or has outlived its original intent (think REA)...just make more government...

"The solution has to be drastic and it has to work. " The author is right. It requires a wrecking ball not a scalpel. But that requires a political will we are unlikely to find in Washington, especially with the current so-called "leadership ". Many of the richest counties in America surround Washington, DC. Once the richest places in America were where people made things. Now they are where people make rules.

#11 - The Department of War - the original name, not "defense". Yes, our goal is to dump all the FDR "New Deal" cruft agencies and their illegitimate children added during and since the "Great Society". The ultimate goal of Ultra MAGA. The restoration of the United States Constitution...as written and duly amended, with the citizens running the country. In the meanwhile, as individuals we can limit our participation by paying off credit card debt and purchasing with cash or by check. I am an advocate of limiting engagement with the bureaucracy. Don't participate in their programs. Don't answer their letters. Slow walk requests. Stay at the back of the line. Remember the masks. Just say no. Don't depend on the RNC to run this election. These are our campaigns. Give directly to MAGA candidates; if not in your states, in other states. We have the power in our hands. Sends memes, make memes yourself. No one stops Donald J. Trump. We are all Donald J. Trump. Ultra MAGA

The author is correct. Halfway measures won’t do it. Take a wrecking ball to government. FBI, ATF, IRS, EPA, OSHA, CDC, HHS, Education, Energy, Agriculture - they gotta go, now. We’ll work on the others later.

How to tame a bureaucracy? Put every **** one of them before a firing squad.

I love the bluntness of this article. However, as stated, the government lacks any ability to measure success and therefore has no idea what to do to perform better. Business has it easy, follow the money. Keep the profitable parts of the business, cut away the least profitable. In line with that, keep the workers that contribute most successfully to the most successful products. How could you possibly evaluate a Department of Education? Most people would agree that, by almost all measures, the quality of education has been going steadily downhill for decades. Even if there was a turnaround, how could that be attributed to any effort by the DOE? The DOE consists of a bunch of "experts" who mostly lack any objective measure of their expertise. They become known as experts by the schools they go to, their academic interactions with previously recognized "experts", and the "positions" they have held. Is it possible to rigorously test such experts or their theories? Does anyone even try? No. Because none of the "experts" want to face the crucible for fear of their own failure. Remember this the next time someone tells you to follow the "science". Much of the "science" is actually just expert opinion or statistical analysis which has no grounding in objective reality. This type of "science" can be worthless and even damaging. So, what to do about such expertise in government? Have as little of it as possible. It will be mostly self serving and wasteful. As much as possible, define VERY specific goals and put strong review and reevaluation in place. If it can't be defined and reliably tested, you cannot actually "fix" anything through government meddling. If goals are not met, build in automatic, no excuses, shutdowns into the bureaucracy.

Civil Servants have been called Feather Merchants for decades for very good reason. Their main job is to feather their own nests and they'll use every method possible. Carter gave us the DOE and even then we knew nothing good could come from it. Time has proven that correct.