Federal Agencies that should be completely eliminated

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Hell yeah. Let's get rid of the kennedy center, too. It's just a bunch libruls listening to fiddle playing.

And, while we're at it, let's get rid of those stupid monuments around dc like the washington monument, the lincoln memorial and the vietnam memorial among others. They're just wasteful, romantic expenses.
 

Moonbeam

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And so sit goes, the swarming wasps. locked up in a fallen log, buzzing and buzzing forever, looking for someone to sting.
 

JS80

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Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Originally posted by: SP33Demon
DHS, first and foremost. They are no longer necessary.

Ah, so let anyone get on a plane or enter our ports?


Please run for some sort of public office, so you can be humiliated.

"There is no terrorist threat."
 

venkman

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-Department of Education - Just more bureaucratic red tape wasting money
-Department of Homeland Security - It's redundant and inefficient
-DEA - End the War on Drugs
-Department of Bridges to Nowhere - you get the idea
 
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Originally posted by: RichardE
HAHA 10/10 for troll thread

I would cut DoD funding down considerably and restrict it to border defence. Save alot more money than choice #1.

yeah real smart. i would leave the defense agencies alone. DEA would be first - their budget is ~4 billion.
 

ebaycj

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Originally posted by: MovingTarget
How about the DEA? If you want to end the drug war, that would be the way to go. Just have the FDA regulate the safety/purity of the supply just like any other drug. Let the various other agencies handle the taxation issues...

Defense should be cut as we need to scale back foreign operations. Remember that MIC that Eisenhower warned us about? You needen't look too far to find examples of the excessive influence that they have held the past few years. (that being said, we need to treat our own soldiers better in terms of care and pay)

More will come as I think of it.

 

Hayabusa Rider

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Originally posted by: Dissipate
Originally posted by: palehorse
LOL... nevermind! I didn't realize that you were a fucking nutcase...

Trillions of dollars lost in an accounting black hole, thousands dead, hundreds of thousands displaced, and I'm the nutcase, gotcha.

What's really cool is that without government we can have slaves again, at least if you are wealthy. Nothing to prevent it.
 

Hayabusa Rider

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Anyway, this thread shows just why we won't have smaller government. Everyone wants cuts, except for their priorities. Conservative or Liberal, it ain't happening.
 

Dissipate

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Originally posted by: palehorse
Well, if you seriously just suggested that we do away with our entire military, then yes, you certainly qualify as a nutcase.

Is that not what you were suggesting?

It is what I am suggesting. I come from a strong military family. My grandfather was in World War II, one of my uncles was in Vietnam, one of my cousins had 3 tours in Iraq and one of my other cousins is currently in Army boot camp.

Of course, coming from such a family I used to be very pro-military. So, what caused me to change my mind? I started to discover why wars are fought. You can make this discovery as well, and in order to do so I suggest you look up the classic War Is a Racket by the most decorated combat veteran in U.S. history: Smedley D. Butler.
 

Dissipate

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Originally posted by: Hayabusa Rider
What's really cool is that without government we can have slaves again, at least if you are wealthy. Nothing to prevent it.

I guess you didn't get the memo, citizens are now commodities for bankers. Oops, I guess slavery has just been repackaged.
 

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National Endowment for the Arts
Drug Enforcement Administration
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms
National Bioethics Advisory Commission
Tennessee Valley Authority
United States Holocaust Memorial Council
Women's History Commission
Farm Credit Administration
AMTRAK
African Development Foundation
Agency for International Development
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

Could probably all go to the chopping block to help get the debt under control.

Consolidate the DHS, CIA, and NSA into one agency. Cut some of the defense budget by eliminating some of our overseas bases. Focus more on terrorism and border security.
 

NoStateofMind

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Originally posted by: Evan

Cue Paulbots telling us to cut out the Fed, IRS, and CIA without offering any proven alternatives for economic management, government funding, or intelligence gathering. :laugh:

Actually you're wrong, I would settle for Department of Homeland Security getting the axe and be quite happy with it.
 

miketheidiot

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Originally posted by: Evan
$128M is pocket change, but if I had to cut I'd start first with any subsidies for domestic farming. Our farm bills waste billions and distort market prices upwards in an extreme way, so I'd cut out that spending and any departments related to their continued existence. Family farm is dead, it's long-gone 19th century history.

Cue Paulbots telling us to cut out the Fed, IRS, and CIA without offering any proven alternatives for economic management, government funding, or intelligence gathering. :laugh:

farm subsidies could probably be quartered and be just as effective at doing what they are intended to do.
 

miketheidiot

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Originally posted by: Genx87
Originally posted by: eskimospy
Originally posted by: Genx87
Originally posted by: heyheybooboo
Originally posted by: Genx87

The military budget is within the % of most countries. The fact our economy is so much bigger than any other single country is the reason why it looks so large.

That would be a lie.

We run a military budget of 600 billion in an economy of 14 billion.
About 4.2% of our gdp goes to the military. Most western nations fall in the 2-4% range. We are in a time of war. Without a war our military expenditures would be less. Before the war we were sitting at about 3% of GDP.

Our military expenditures would not be less. That figure you just gave is the budget figure that completely ignores the development, upkeep, and maintainence of our nuclear weapons, veterans medical costs from the wars, supplementals for the 'global war on terror', etc... etc. With all those added in we are easily over $800 billion, probably well over $1 trillion.

A quick glance showed about 8 billion a year on upkeep of nuclear weapons
32 billion for veterens. Which is a seperate dept.
The budget I am looking at for FY2009 includes 70 billion allocation for the global wot. You may be right in that if you include all emergency funding they are sitting at close to 800 billion.

But that is during a time of war. We leave Iraq and Afghanistan and we about 600-650 billion a year which isnt an outrageous number as a % of GDP. Especially when you compare it to decades past since WWII. In the 50's we had a military that consumed 10-14% of our GDP.

in the middle of the cold war...
 

miketheidiot

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Originally posted by: compuwiz1
The Eye Are Ess. ;)

If we could come up with a simple cut and dried taxation system for personal income taxes it could be so automated that there would be no reason to have that bloated agency that is the IRS.

most of the bloat in the irs is looking for tax cheats.
 

Dissipate

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Originally posted by: miketheidiot
maybe your nightmare. :evil:

Pretty much everyone's nightmare. Text

The funny thing about this thread is that none of these government agencies will be cut officially, but they will end up going away nonetheless after the fed gov becomes completely insolvent.