Ted Cruz Wants to Shutdown Five Federal Agencies

At the Fox Business Network presidential debate in Milwaukee on November 10, 2015,  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said he would shutdown five federal agencies. He named four: the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Cruz had a minor debate stumble during the debate when he named the same department twice when listing the federal agencies he would eliminate. "Five major agencies that I would eliminate: the IRS, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Energy, uh, the Department of Commerce, and HUD," Cruz said. Cruz was in good humor when Fox host Megyn Kelly asked the senator about the incident at the end of their interview after the debate. "I just think the Department of Commerce is such a base of cronyism, we need to eliminate it twice," Cruz joked. He added that he meant to say the Department of Education. "I have been campaigning for a long time on repealing Common Core, abolishing the Department of Education, and block-granting that money back to the states so education can be handled on the state and local level," Cruz said.

Ideally, 90 percent of federal departments should be eliminated.

What Federal Departments Should be Eliminated? 90% of Them

March 7, 2012

usa-wethepeople.com - One of the big myths out there believed by both the left and right is that we need the federal government to regulate profit-crazed maniacs who would sell our children morphine and poisoned milk. Little thought goes into this logic peddled on Main Street. It is accepted as gospel that capitalist are crazed lunatics willing to kill grandma to make a profit.

But if a company sold a harmful product wouldn’t they get sued if we had property rights enforced? Hush citizen!

The truth is the federal agencies are there to protect the elites by crushing Main Street. And Main Street supports the theft. We are held hostage by a privileged class and we enjoy it, often referred to as the Stockholm Syndrome.

It is a wonderful thing for the government thugs when they can steal your money and brainwash your children into believing the theft is justified by educating helpless children in government schools. 90% of Americans are brainwashed fools, and we don’t even realize it.

And, to top it off, the thieves get the people to play blue team/red team politics so the theft is concealed from the public. Like a magician the ignorant masses are fooled year after year. Go Red Team/Go Blue Team!!! Ra, ra, ra.

Below is a blog from Ludwig von Mises on 2-29-2012 by http://www.lewrockwell.com/.

The article briefly covers the regulatory history that should be taught in Universities and Colleges across America. Instead we get “government is good and fiscal policy and the Federal Reserve is good monetary policy” propaganda. Complete hogwash economics that is nothing but a smoke screen to hide the elites theft from the public. For every 100 students who take economics maybe one will see the malicious fairy tales for what they really are.


“Socialists want socialism for everyone else, but capitalism for themselves, while capitalists want capitalism for everyone else, but socialism for themselves.

Neither Ted Kennedy nor Jane Fonda practices a vow of poverty, nor are they taking any homeless into their mansions, while too many big companies try to short-circuit the market with government privileges. And one way they do it is through the regulatory agencies that acne Washington, DC.

If I may make a public confession (counting on the charity of Mises Daily readers): I used to work for the US Congress. I’ve since gone straight, of course, but the experience had its value, much as the future criminologist might benefit from serving with the James Gang.

For one thing, being on Capitol Hill showed me that, unlike the republic of the Founding Fathers’ vision, our DC Leviathan exists only to extract money and power from the people for itself and the special interests.

Ludwig von Mises called this an inevitable “caste conflict.” There can be no natural class conflict in society, Mises showed, since the free market harmonizes all economic interests, but in a system of government-granted privileges, there must be a struggle between those who live off the government and the rest of us. It is a disguised struggle, of course, since truth threatens the loot.

When I worked on Capitol Hill, Jimmy Carter was bleating about the energy crisis and promising to punish big oil with a “windfall profits tax.” But I saw that the lobbyists pushing for the tax were from the big oil companies. And, after a moment’s thought, it was easy to realize why. There was no windfall-profits tax in Saudi Arabia, but it did fall heavily on Oklahoma. And as intended, the tax aided the big companies that imported oil by punishing their competitors — smaller, independent firms.

In the ensuing restructuring of the industry, also brought about by the price and allocation regulations of the Department of Energy, the big firms bought up domestic capacity at fire-sale prices, and then the Reagan administration repealed the tax and the regulations. Meanwhile, the big companies received contracts from the Department of Energy to produce money-losing “alternative fuels.”

In every administration, the tools of inflation, borrowing, taxation, and regulation are used to transfer wealth from the people to the government and its cronies.

At times, one or another of these tools becomes politically dangerous, so the government alters the mix. That’s why the Reagan administration switched from taxes and inflation to borrowing, and it’s why the Bush administration, with the deficit a liability, calls for more taxes, inflation, and regulation.

Authors note: Here are the White House Tables, Table 1-3, that prove Reagan had no interest in reducing the size of government. Reagan set the then post WWII record for a budget deficit of 6% of GDP in 1983, a record that was not broken until the Obama Administration.

A tremendous amount is at stake in the re-regulation of the economy advocated by the Bush administration. Just one clause in the Federal Register can mean billions for a favored firm or industry, and disaster for its competitors, which is why lobbyists cluster around the Capitol like flies around a garbage can.

While claiming to need more money for — among other vital projects — a trip to Mars supervised by Dan Quayle, the president is boosting the budget of every regulatory agency in Washington [the liars' capital of the western hemisphere and a cesspool of devious people].

Here are just some of those agencies, and the way they function:

Founded by Richard Nixon, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is an antientrepreneur agency. Not only does OSHA target small- and medium-sized businesses, its regulatory cases are easily handled by Exxon’s squad of lawyers, while they can bankrupt a small firm.

Also founded by Nixon, the Consumer Product Safety Commission issues regulations drawn up in open consultation with big business — regulations that often conform exactly to what those firms are already doing. Small businesses, on the other hand, must spend heavily to comply.

Another Nixon creation is the Environmental Protection Agency, whose budget is larded with the influence of politically connected businesses, and whose regulations buttress established industries and discriminate against entrepreneurs — by, for example, legalizing pollution for existing companies but making new firms spend heavily. [EPA Secretary Lisa P. Jackson lives the good life on the taxpayers dime protecting special interest groups.]

The Department of Housing and Urban Development was founded by Lyndon B. Johnson, but its roots stretch back to the housing policy of the New Deal, whose explicit purpose was to subsidize builders of rental and single-family housing. Since LBJ’s Great Society, HUD has subsidized builders of public-housing projects, and of subsidized private housing. How can anyone be surprised that fat cats use HUD to line their pockets? That was its purpose.

The Securities and Exchange Commission was established by Franklin D. Roosevelt, with its legislation written by corporate lawyers to cartelize the market for big Wall Street firms. Over the years, the SEC has stopped many new stock issues by smaller companies, who might grow and compete with the industrial and commercial giants aligned with the big Wall Street firms. And right now, it is lessening competition in the futures and commodities markets.

The Interstate Commerce Commission was created in 1887 to stop “cut-throat” competition among railroads (i.e., competitive pricing) and to enforce high prices. Later amendments extended its power to trucking and other forms of transportation, where it also prevented competition. During the Carter administration, much of the ICC’s power was trimmed, but some of this was undone in the Reagan administration.

The Federal Communications Commission was established by Herbert Hoover to prevent private property in radio frequencies, and to place ownership in the hands of the government. The FCC set up the network system, whose licenses went to politically connected businessmen, and delayed technological breakthroughs that might have threatened the networks. There was some deregulation during the Reagan administration — although it was the development of cable TV that did the most good, by circumventing the networks.

The Department of Agriculture runs America’s farming on behalf of producers, keeping prices high, profits up, imports out, and new products off the shelves. We can’t know what food prices would be in the absence of the appropriately initialed DOA, only that food would be much cheaper. Now, for the first time since the farm program was established by Herbert Hoover, as a copy of the Federal Food Administration he ran during World War I, we are seeing widespread criticism of farm welfare.

The Federal Trade Commission — as shown by the fascist-deco statue in front of its headquarters — claims to “tame” the “wild horse of the market” on behalf of the public. Since its founding in 1914, however, it has restrained the market to the benefit of established firms. That’s why the chief lobbyists for the FTC were all from big business.

When then-Congressman Steve Symms (R-ID) tried to partially deregulate the Food and Drug Administration in the 1970s to allow more new drugs, he was stopped by the big drug companies and their trade association. Why? Because the FDA exists to protect them.

OSHA, CPSC, EPA, HUD, SEC, ICC, FCC, DOA, FTC, FDA — I could go on and on, through the entire alphabet from Hell. I have only scratched the villainous surface. But according to the average history or economics text, these agencies emerged in response to public demand. There is never a hint of the regulatory-industrial complex. We’re told that the public is being served. And it is: on a platter.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. is chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, editor of LewRockwell.com, and author of The Left, the Right, and the State. Send him e-mail, rockwell@mises.org.

Let Every Federal Department Justify Its Existence - Constitutionally

The 2011 federal budget for the following departments totals $1.5 trillion. Before cutting Social Security and Medicare, which are funded through dedicated payroll taxes (FICA) [not by the federal income tax], the U.S. government needs to trim the fat in each department and eliminate those functions that need only be performed at the state level (or not performed at all by the government).

July 20, 2010

Doug Patton - The executive departments of our federal government read like an alphabet soup of bureaucracies entwining and entangling themselves into every area of our lives. The litany of "on-the-books" divisions and subdivisions does not even count the unaccountable czars, advisors and otherwise nebulous bureaucrats whose only business it is to annoy the American people and to demand of us affiliation and information to which they have no constitutional authority.

Imagine if each cabinet secretary had to come before Congress and justify, on constitutional grounds, the existence of his or her department...

1. USDA -- Department of Agriculture (2011 Budget $25.7 Billion).
   
   Created under President Abraham Lincoln in 1862 to help farmers who needed good seeds and information to grow their crops. Farmers couldn't find this information any other way? And today's USDA is the only entity that can monitor the quality of our food?


2. DOC -- Department of Commerce (2011 Budget $9.1 Billion).
   
   Founded in 1903 as the Department of Commerce and Labor, which later became its own department in 1913. As with so much that sounded good at the time but is later found to be a public policy mutation in need of a justification, this department most likely would not have passed muster with the Founders.


3. DOD -- Department of Defense (2011 Budget $708.3 Billion).
   
   One of the few mandated and approved by the Founders. Originally created as the War Department, the name was changed after WWII. Today, we find ourselves with fewer troops under arms than many of our most dangerous enemies, including the Islamic Republic of Iran. This is one of the few departments we should not only continue funding but which should be beefed up.


4. ED -- Department of Education (2011 Budget $68.6 Billion).
   
   Originally created as part of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the Eisenhower fifties, Jimmy Carter carved out the federal Department of Education to make it a separate cabinet post in the late 1970s as a pay off to the teacher's unions for helping him win his one pathetic term.
   
   There is no constitutional justification for it, and it should be abolished.
    
5. DOE -- Department of Energy (2011 Budget $28.4 Billion).
   
   Another Carter boondoggle, this agency was created with one ostensible goal in mind: reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.
   
   Enough said?


6. HHS -- Department of Health and Human Services (2011 Budget $81.3 Billion).
   
   Again, this massive entitlement bureaucracy grew out of Ike's HEW and was given its own agency by Carter.
   
   The largest federal agency, it is now so huge that it would probably require a team of constitutional experts to determine whether any part of it can be justified.


7. DHS -- Department of Homeland Security (2011 Budget $43.6 Billion).
   
   Although the Constitution gives Congress the authority to create new agencies, it also puts limits on what government can do.
   
   Created during the George W. Bush administration after 9/11, the jury is still out on whether this agency is constitutional.


8. HUD -- Department of Housing and Urban Development (2011 Budget $43.5 Billion).
   
   Have you seen any of our inner cities lately?
   
   This department was created in 1965 and should be abolished yesterday.


9. DOJ -- Department of Justice (2011 Budget $29.2 Billion).
   
   Although the post of attorney general dates back to George Washington's first cabinet, Congress did not create the Department of Justice until 1970. Since a main responsibility of the executive branch is to enforce the laws, DOJ can stay.
    
10. DOL -- Department of Labor (2011 Budget $117.2 Billion).
    
    An excuse to promote labor unions, especially during Democrat administrations. 

Dismantle it.


11. DOS -- Department of State (2011 Budget $52 Billion).
    
    Foreign policy being the constitutional province of the executive branch, the Founders saw DOS as an important part of the Republic. Of course, it would be nice if more of the bureaucratic lifers who work there were patriotic Americans.


12. DOI -- Department of the Interior (2011 Budget $18 Billion).
    
    Created in 1849, I'm sure there was justification for it at the time.
    
    However, over the last century, it has overreached in the area of taking private property.


13. DOT -- Department of Transportation (2011 Budget $79 Billion).
    
    Established in 1966 during Lyndon Johnson's Great Society years.
    
    It would have been hard for the Founders to imagine jet air travel in the 21st Century; still, it is difficult to make the case that federal involvement with America's transportation issues has been a plus. [TSA anyone?]


14. VA -- Department of Veterans' Affairs (2011 Budget $125 Billion).
    
    One of the newer agencies, VA was created in 1989.
    
    If protecting the nation is job one for the federal government, then taking care of the veterans who sacrificed to preserve our freedoms should be a legitimate federal issue.


15. Finally, there is the Treasury Department (2010 Budget $13.4 Billion).
    
    Washington's first treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton, would frown on eliminating his job. Of course, he never knew Timothy Geithner.

2010 United States Federal Budget

Source: Wikipedia

Estimated Receipts

Estimated receipts for fiscal year 2010 are $2.381 trillion, an estimated decrease of 11% from 2009.

• $1.061 trillion – Individual income taxes
• $940 billion – Social Security and Medicare (FICA)
• $222 billion – Corporation income taxes
• $77 billion – Excise taxes
• $23 billion – Customs duties
• $20 billion – Estate and gift taxes
• $22 billion – Deposits of earnings
• $16 billion – Other

Total Spending

The President's budget for 2010 totals $3.55 trillion. Percentages in parentheses indicate percentage change compared to 2009. This budget request is broken down by the following expenditures:

• Mandatory spending: $2.184 trillion (+15.6%)
  • $677.95 billion (+4.9%) – Social Security
  • $571 billion (−15.2%) – Other mandatory programs (food stamps, unemployment, student loans, etc.)
  • $453 billion (+6.6%) – Medicare
  • $290 billion (+12.0%) – Medicaid
  • $164 billion (+18.0%) – Interest on National Debt (this figure is much lower than the actual interest)
  • $11 billion (+275%) – Potential disaster costs
  • $0 billion (−100%) – Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)
  • $0 billion (−100%) – Financial stabilization efforts (see Tracking the Bailout & Stimulus Programs)

• Discretionary spending: $1.368 trillion (+13.1%)
  • $663.7 billion (+12.7%) – Department of Defense (including Overseas Contingency Operations)
  • $78.7 billion (−1.7%) – Department of Health and Human Services
  • $72.5 billion (+2.8%) – Department of Transportation
  • $52.5 billion (+10.3%) – Department of Veterans Affairs
  • $51.7 billion (+40.9%) – Department of State and Other International Programs
  • $47.5 billion (+18.5%) – Department of Housing and Urban Development
  • $46.7 billion (+12.8%) – Department of Education
  • $42.7 billion (+1.2%) – Department of Homeland Security
  • $26.3 billion (−0.4%) – Department of Energy
  • $26.0 billion (+8.8%) – Department of Agriculture
  • $23.9 billion (−6.3%) – Department of Justice
  • $18.7 billion (+5.1%) – National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • $13.8 billion (+48.4%) – Department of Commerce
  • $13.3 billion (+4.7%) – Department of Labor (Discretionary Spending Only)
  • $13.3 billion (+4.7%) – Department of the Treasury
  • $12.0 billion (+6.2%) – Department of the Interior
  • $10.5 billion (+34.6%) – Environmental Protection Agency
  • $9.7 billion (+10.2%) – Social Security Administration
  • $7.0 billion (+1.4%) – National Science Foundation
  • $5.1 billion (−3.8%) – Corps of Engineers
  • $5.0 billion (+100%) – National Infrastructure Bank
  • $1.1 billion (+22.2%) – Corporation for National and Community Service
  • $0.7 billion (0.0%) – Small Business Administration
  • $0.6 billion (−14.3%) – General Services Administration
  • $19.8 billion (+3.7%) – Other Agencies
  • $105 billion – Other

Deficit

The total deficit for fiscal year 2009 was $1.42 trillion, a $960 billion increase from the 2008 deficit.

The 2009 deficit includes the cost of the Troubled Asset Relief Program ($154 billion in 2009), the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ($202 billion in 2009, $353 billion in 2010, and $232 billion in 2011 forward), and the 2009 Omnibus spending bill ($410 billion)—and changes due to President Obama's policy proposals.

The 2009 budget deficit would represent 12.3% of gross domestic product, the largest share since World War II.

Obama Appointed Deeply-entrenched Political Elites to His Cabinet and to Head the Departments of the U.S. Government

This list was compiled by Patrick Wood, The August Review, March 9, 2009.

For details on their affiliations with the American Security Project, Aspen Institute/Aspen Study Group, Atlantic Council of the United States, Bilderberg Group, Bretton Woods Committee, Brookings Institute, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Trilateral Commission, etc., click here.

- Vice President: Joe Biden
- Department of State: Hilary R. Clinton
- Deputy Secretary of State: James Steinberg
- Assistant Secretary of State, Asia and Pacific: Kurt M. Campbell
- State Department, Special Envoy: Richard Haass
- State Department, Special Envoy: Dennis Ross
- State Department, Special Envoy: Richard Holbrooke
- State Department, Special Envoy: George J. Mitchell
- Department of the Treasury: Timothy F. Geithner
- Department of Defense: Robert M. Gates
- Department of Energy: Steven Chu
- Department of the Interior: Ken Salazar
- Department of Education: Arne Duncan
- Department of Health and Human Services: Tom Daschle (see the note for this listing)
- Department of Agriculture: Tom Vilsack
- Department of Transportation: Ray LaHood
- Department of Labor: Hilda Solis
- Department of Housing and Urban Development: Shaun Donovan
- Department of Veterans Affairs: Eric K. Shinseki
- Department of Commerce: Judd Gregg
- Department of Homeland Security: Janet Napolitano
- Attorney General: Eric Holder
- National Security Advisory: General James L. Jones
- Deputy National Security Advisor: Tom Donilon
- Director of National Intelligence: Dennis Blair
- Director of the Central Intelligence Agency: Leon Panetta
- White House Chief of Staff: Rahm Emanuel
- White House Military Office: Louis Caldera
- Ambassador to the Untied Nations: Susan Rice
- Domestic Policy Council: Melody Barnes
- US Trade Representative: Ron Kirk
- National Economic Council: Lawrence Summers
- Council of Economic Advisors: Christina Romer
- Economic Recovery Committee: Paul Volker
- Office of Management and Budget: Peter Orszag
- Securities and Exchange Commission: Mary Schapiro
- Council on Environmental Quality: Nancy Sutley
- Environmental Protection Agency: Lisa P. Jackson
- Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change: Carol Browner
- Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnership: Joshua DuBois

Senator Ron Paul Introduces $500 Billion in Spending Cuts

January 27, 2011

blog.jabi.com - In the face of an ever-expanding national debt, newly elected Senator Rand Paul is taking a bold and proactive step in protecting our national security and lowering our deficit. By introducing $500 billion in spending cuts today – to be enacted over one year – Sen. Paul is starting an important conversation with his Senate colleagues about how to fix our nation’s current economic situation.

“I am proud to introduce my own solution to the mounting debt our spendthrift, oversized government has accrued. By rolling back to 2008 levels and eliminating the most wasteful programs, we can still keep 85 percent of our government funding in place,” Sen. Paul said today.

“By removing programs that are beyond the constitutional role of the federal government, such as education and housing, we are cutting nearly 40 percent of our projected deficit and removing the big-government bureaucrats who stand in the way of efficiency in our federal government,” he continued.

Rand Paul calls for total elimination of the following bureaucracies:

• Government Printing Office: Eliminated
  • The advancement in technology and innovation has brought about the electronic age, an era that includes very little reason for the government to continue printing large amounts of documents, most of which can be found and read on the internet.
• Agriculture Research Service: Eliminated
  • Per the CATO Institute: “Most American industries fund their own research and development programs. The agriculture industry is a notable exception. USDA spends about $3 billion annually on agricultural research, statistical information services, and economic studies.”
• National Institute of Food and Agriculture: Eliminated
  • National Institute of Food and Agriculture is the parent agency to the Agriculture Research Service. NIFA is essentially the communications arm to spread ARS information to the public.
• Natural Resources Conservation Service: Eliminated
  • This issue is best left up to the states to determine what the best way is to preserve and protect their environment. The balance of using the resources available for production, conservation, and recreation is best decided by from people in the region.
• Foreign Agricultural Services: Eliminated
  • Originally, this agency was created to manage our agricultural trade agreements and the daily/weekly prices of agriculture commodities across the globe. In a world of constant information, we do not need this program putting out daily reports regarding the fluctuations of commodity prices.
• Department of Energy: Eliminated
  • Created in 1977, the purpose and intent of the Department of Energy was to regulate oil prices. The DoE today
    reflects an agency that encompasses national security activities such as nuclear weapon production, maintenance,
    and cleanup which are better suited for the Department of Defense, and other activities that are nothing more than
    corporate handouts.
• Housing and Urban Development (HUD): Eliminated
  • Rather than providing a one-time stop for families on their way out of poverty, public housing has largely been a failure. Public housing projects have become havens of crime and dysfunction, driving away the very business investment and homeowners that would revitalize a city block.
• Bureau of Reclamation: Eliminate
  • Established in 1902, the Bureau of Reclamation has held a majority of the dams, hydroelectric power plants, and canals in the western most 17 states. They are the largest wholesaler of water in the country and provide water for farmers in those states.
  • Owning a majority block of energy and water resources is not the business of the federal government. Water rights should be controlled by the states and agreements can be made between the states to ensure water supply to all.
• Bureau of Indian Affairs: Eliminate
  • For far too long, the Bureau of Indian Affairs has swindled and mismanaged billions of dollars in Indian trust funds. Former Special Trustee Thomas Slonaker in 2004 testified that they Department of the Interior and the BIA were incapable of reform and were unwilling to hold people accountable for their actions. In addition, Paul Homan also has testified before Congress saying that a “vast majority of upper and middle management at the BIA were incompetent.
• Office of Justice Programs: Eliminated
  • The Office of Justice Programs does not directly carry out law enforcement or justice activities, rather OJP performs studies on the pressing crime-related challenges that confront the justice system and provides grants to try and help cities and counties reduce their crime rates. In effect, OJP has evolved into a multi-billion dollar subsidy to the budgets of local governments.
• Amtrak Subsidies: Eliminate
  • Created by an act of Congress in 1970 to provide passenger rail service, Amtrak has yet to turn a yearly profit.
• International Assistance Programs: Eliminate
  • The people of the United States are some of the most generous individuals anywhere in the world. When a tsunami
    hit Indonesia and an earthquake hit Haiti in recent years, Americans opened their wallets and hearts to help provide
    assistance to those in need. Taxpayer dollars spent on official development assistance (ODA) have been wasted
    through a failed assistance giving model.

Plenty of independent and efficient consumer groups exist throughout the United States, and Consumer Reports is just one example. It is time that the federal government retreats from such services, as its presence in this arena is unnecessary and was never intended in the first place.

The Founding Fathers did not envision a government that included funding for the arts. They understood that what one citizen may see as a favorable artistic expression may offend another. This is why the arts are better left to private support; it is not government’s role to pick and choose which artists should be subsidized.

No media outlet should exist which requires government support to survive; especially in the case of NPR, which makes no apologies for its often one-sided, government subsidized options. Further, PBS has produced many hit television shows that will be able to produce revenue for continued broadcasting; as it is, public dollars are subsidizing the creation and growth of lucrative brands that generate millions of dollars of merchandising revenues. The American taxpayer deserves better.

• Affordable Housing Program – Eliminated
• Commission on Fine Arts – Eliminated
• Consumer Product Safety Commission – Eliminated
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting – Eliminated
• National Endowment of Arts – Eliminated
• National Endowment for Humanities – Eliminated
• The Smithsonian Institution – Privatized
• State Justice Institute – Eliminated

The above are only the bureaucracies Senator Rand Paul’s bill would eliminate. To see additional reductions to other bureacracies:

• Read the entire overview
• Read the Bill

The Political Crisis – There is a political crisis right now. It is the result of governments becoming gorged with power and running amok with the undisciplined exercise of power.

178 Government Agencies We Should Get Rid Of Immediately

The DaleyGator
July 9, 2012

Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
Administration on Aging (AoA)
African Development Foundation
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Agricultural Marketing Service
Agricultural Research Service
Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (Treasury)
AMTRAK (National Railroad Passenger Corporation)
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Appalachian Regional Commission
Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board
Arctic Research Commission
Arms Control and International Security
Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Interagency Coordinating Committee
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation
Bonneville Power Administration
Botanic Garden
Broadcasting Board of Governors
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
Bureau of Industry and Security
Bureau of International Labor Affairs
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Bureau of Public Debt
Bureau of Reclamation
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
Chief Acquisition Officers Council
Chief Financial Officers Council
Chief Human Capital Officers Council
Chief Information Officers Council
Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee
Commission of Fine Arts
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission)
Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements
Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)
Community Planning and Development
Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Corporation for National and Community Service
Council of Economic Advisers
Council on Environmental Quality
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Denali Commission
Department of Commerce (DOC)
Department of Education (ED)
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Department of Labor (DOL)
Domestic Policy Council
Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs (State Department)
Economic Adjustment Office
Economic Development Administration
Economic Research Service
Economics & Statistics Administration
Election Assistance Commission
Elementary and Secondary Education
Endangered Species Committee
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Energy Information Administration
Environmental Management (Energy Department)
Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
Federal Citizen Information Center (FCIC)
Federal Consulting Group
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
Federal Geographic Data Committee
Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight
Federal Housing Finance Board
Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds
Federal Interagency Committee on Education
Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy
Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer
Federal Labor Relations Authority
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
Federal Transit Administration
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
Financial Management Service (Treasury Department)
Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, National Commission
Fish and Wildlife Service
Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services
Foreign Agricultural Service
Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
Fossil Energy
Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
Government National Mortgage Association
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
Health Resources and Services Administration
Helsinki Commission (Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe)
Indian Arts and Crafts Board
Information Resource Management College
Innovation and Improvement Office
Institute of Education Sciences
Institute of Peace
Interagency Alternative Dispute Resolution Working Group
Interagency Council on Homelessness
Inter-American Foundation
International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB)
Japan-United States Friendship Commission
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries
Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies
Joint Fire Science Program
Lead Hazard Control (Housing and Urban Development Department)
Legal Services Corporation
Marine Mammal Commission
Marketing and Regulatory Programs (Agriculture Department)
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
Merit Systems Protection Board
Migratory Bird Conservation Commission
Millennium Challenge Corporation
Minerals Management Service
Minority Business Development Agency
Mississippi River Commission
Multifamily Housing Office
National Agricultural Statistics Service
National AIDS Policy Office
National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare
National Capital Planning Commission
National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
National Drug Intelligence Center
National Economic Council
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Gallery of Art
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
National Institute for Literacy
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Labor Relations Board
National Science Foundation
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Northwest Power Planning Council
Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight
Office of Government Ethics
Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Office of Thrift Supervision
Open World Leadership Center
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Pardon Attorney Office
Peace Corps
Policy Development and Research (Housing and Urban Development Department)
Political Affairs (State Department)
Postsecondary Education
Presidio Trust
Public and Indian Housing
Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs (State Department)
Radio and TV Marti (Español)
Railroad Retirement Board
Regulatory Information Service Center
Rehabilitation Services Administration (Education Department)
Research, Education and Economics (Agriculture Department)
Research and Innovative Technology Administration (Transportation Department)
Risk Management Agency (Agriculture Department)
Rural Business and Cooperative Programs
Rural Development
Rural Housing Service
Rural Utilities Service
Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
Science Office (Energy Department)
Social Security Advisory Board
State Justice Institute
Stennis Center for Public Service
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Surface Transportation Board
Susquehanna River Basin Commission
Taxpayer Advocacy Panel
U.S. Mission to the United Nations
U.S. Trade and Development Agency
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Vocational and Adult Education
White House Commission on Presidential Scholars
White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance
Women’s Bureau (Labor Department)
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

"If we eliminated all of the Unconstitutional Federal Agencies it would be a great step. Reforming the Social Programs as well. Federal Agencies not only cost money, they screw with job creation and oppress the people. Just getting back to following the law, the Constitution, would be a great step in the right direction. That would bring us out of this. We need to get rid of the enemy within as well, the Federal Reserve Bank Owners who control our economy and won't be audited, because they are stealing us blind and manipulating our whole country. Tax increases don't increase revenue; in fact, right now they would seriously crush revenue and they would seriously crush what's left of the economy. It's all been statistically laid out by a series of actual results. Tax cuts raise more revenue because they kick up the economy. Tax increases decrease revenues because they kill the economy. Taking money out of the economy for the government to spread around just kills the economy, it doesn't help it. They can't create wealth, so the jobs are dead ends." [jeweljvh]

"SS and Medicare are self-sustaining. We pay special taxes to support 'entitlement' programs and if the programs were eliminated we'd expect those taxes to stop. What if we cut our defense budget by, say, half? The US has been on a constant war footing since WWII. We now spend more on defense than all the rest of the world combined, but no politician believes this is enough, and they all try to outdo each other with defense increases. If you take all the nations in the world who could possibly wish to harm us, we spend 16 times as much as they do combined. What if we only spent, say, 8 times as much?" [Mr. Smartypants]