Terminate This Federal Department With
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Posted By: RockyTCB,
6/27/2024 9:25:13 AM
Donald Trump said if he’s elected one of his first orders will be to eliminate the Department of Education. Not a bad start. But he should quickly move on to the other DOE, the Department of Energy. Please pull the plug.
The Cabinet-level department was created when Democratic President Jimmy Carter, whose energy policy was ruinous, signed the Department of Energy Organization Act, which he had asked Congress to pass. In “business” since 1977, the Energy Department has not generated, in any way that we can satisfactorily verify, a single watt of energy for consumers.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
franq 6/27/2024 9:40:59 AM (No. 1744406)
Most, if not all, federal agencies are failed attempts at central planning.
Energy, environment, education - you name it.
This is not democracy™ that leftists claim to love.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/27/2024 9:53:01 AM (No. 1744416)
The only product of a government agency is regulations. The government is so bloated that we have out of control inflation, half the government paid for by inflation, direct taxation accounting for only half. The solution of government in every detail of our life and inflation is to reduce the whole government by half, and some departments by 100%. That also would give the new President the opportunity to rid themselves of saboteurs of their administration.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 6/27/2024 10:09:20 AM (No. 1744427)
Jimmy Carter created the Dept. of Energy (and Education). Like every other idea he had, it was a bad one. If it wasn't for the federal government and all of its "Departments", gas would be $1.50 a gallon, kids would be able to read, food would be cheaper, doctors would be able to treat you effectively, and you wouldn't have to fill out a bunch of forms to buy a gun.
A number of federal agencies need to be defunded and disbanded. The Dept. of Energy would be a good start - then Education, Health, Agriculture, and of course the FBI and the ATF.
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slipstik 6/27/2024 10:17:28 AM (No. 1744433)
We don't have the federal government envisioned in the Constitution. The federal government was supposed to be small and not all powerful. States were supposed to be the seat of power vis a vis the people. States became vassals of the fed due to the civil war. States couldn't wipe their behind without the fed's approval. The administrative state arose after the 16th and 17th amendments were accepted. Unlimited access to all of our assets AND no more representation of the needs of the state(s). Then in the 30's came the crushing federal bureaucracy. Social Security, IRS, FBI, FDA, TVA, and a host of others all the way into the 70's and 80's. Our founders would vomit at what we have wrought from their brilliant creation. If they knew THIS was the end, they wouldn't have bothered.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jasonB 6/27/2024 10:35:14 AM (No. 1744448)
To pull stuff like this off, we will need rock ribbed conservatives in congress to back Trump up. Glad that guys like Bob Good are there to help.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rather Read 6/27/2024 11:15:46 AM (No. 1744483)
When I was in grade school, we had teachers and a principal. When I was in high school, we had teachers, guidance counselors, a principal, a vice principal and a head of pupil personnel. This was before the Department of Education. Now, the number of teachers is pretty much the same but the bureaucracy has grown HUGE and the teachers can't teach anymore.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 6/27/2024 11:28:16 AM (No. 1744499)
DoE, EPA, FBI and CIA need to be erased. Completely erased.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
red1066 6/27/2024 11:57:45 AM (No. 1744518)
There are about six departments that could be eliminated, and I doubt anyone would notice except those employed by them. Think of the amount of money that could be saved each fiscal year.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Venturer 6/27/2024 12:58:54 PM (No. 1744540)
Do away with Homeland Security, it's not doing anything to secure America
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
downnout 6/27/2024 1:01:13 PM (No. 1744543)
Is there any person with a functioning brain that can show us how the Bureau of Education has improved anything?
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