Barack Obama and I actually agree! Back in 2008, he stated plainloy and unequivically, that we needed to look at how we do things, and get rid of what doesn't work. Let's do that, shall we? maybe we can identify some areas of the government that aren't working that can be cut.
Department of Energy- in 1977, Jimmy Carter signed the law creating the Dept. of Energy. The idea was to create an agency to promote our own energy independence, and reduce reliance on foreign oil. Today THIRTY FIVE YEARS LATER, we are at LEAST as dependent upon foreign oil as we were in 1977. We've wasted billions of taxpayer dollars on a bloated bureaucracy that has accomplished zippola of what it was created for. Time to go! Saved $26.3 Billion
Department of Education- in 1979, Jimmy Carter signed the law creating the Department of Education. Since that time, our schools have gone from being some of the finest in the world to ranking... "Average"
HuffPost Education originally reported that the United States was ranked 14th by the OECD. That figure is the nation's ranking in reading skills, not the overall ranking of the country.
The United States has fallen to "average" in international education rankings released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, according to the AFP.
America has received scores around 500 on a scale that goes up to 1,000: 487 in math, 500 in reading and 502 in science.
Please note, this is NOT some Conservative Website that the lefties like to denigrate, this is the Huffington Post, and I only cite them, because it IS a leftist source. The DoED, ONLY provides about 10% of the budgets for schools, but the strings that go along with those Federal dollars often dictate how they spend 80% of their budget. maybe if they just cut the budgets by 10%, and cut the strings, they could spend the remaining 90% on what matters, STEM core curricula (Science, Tecnology, Engineering, and Math). MASSIVE Fail! I couldn't find a bottom line figure on what ED is budgeted (HA! As if any budget has been passed in the past three years) But I DID find this on their website: ED currently administers a budget of $68.1 billion in discretionary appropriations (including discretionary Pell Grant funding). Saved at LEAST $68 Billion PLUS
Environmental Protection Agency- in 1970, PROPOSED and signed into existance by the leftists FAVORITE President Richard Millhouse Nixon! It's task was to clean up and preserve our environment. And to be honest, they did a wonderful job identifying and cleaning up the "Superfund" sites many of the regulations they've put in place have improved our air and water quality. But lately, they have degenerated into nothing more than a favored vehicle to try to regulate policy that is so unsound that Congress could never get enough votes to legislate, such as the Cap and Trade global warming BS. (Think I'm a 'global warming denier', only of the anthropomorphic variety, you betcha!, I'll post a thread on the CERN Cloud Project in a separate thread). Further maintanence of the existing programs could be turned over to the Interior Department and do away with an entire bloated bureaucracy. Saved- $8.3 Billion I have things to do, but I can come up with MUCH more! Just so far this Monday Morning, we've identified $97.6 BILLION dollars that could be saved each and every year! Subtract the built in baseline spending increasews, and we've saved well OVER $1 TRILLION dollars over the next ten years, and haven't cut defense by a dime! (Can I have my $30/hr. job back now?)
