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2010-04-12 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-04-12 01:51|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 gotta love how Soc Sec, Medicare, Obamacare, et al will always be made solvent by "eliminating waste and fraud", but it never happens...

Posted by Frank G 2010-04-12 10:51|| 2010-04-12 10:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Eliminating waste and fraud...is hard!

Posted by Eliminating Waste and Fraud Barbie 2010-04-12 11:51|| 2010-04-12 11:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually, eliminating waste and fraud is easy. All thats needed is to remove the government from healthcare.

Posted by phil_b 2010-04-12 12:33|| 2010-04-12 12:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Every administration since John Adams has been promising to eliminate the waste and fraud found in the preceding administrations. With all this emphasis on eliminating waste and fraud you have to wonder why any is still around.

Posted by Steve White 2010-04-12 13:26|| 2010-04-12 13:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Have we ever, in the modern history of the US, dismantled a bureaucratic entity?

I don't know that we have a mechanism to do it.
A constitutional convention may be the only way to make any meaningful reduction of the govt.

Unfortunately, that would probably require a civil war at this point, and I don't know if it would be worth destroying the village to save it.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-04-12 13:47|| 2010-04-12 13:47|| Front Page Top

#6 OTOH (and not to advocate it at this point):

Some cancers just have to be cut out.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-04-12 14:26|| 2010-04-12 14:26|| Front Page Top

#7 The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands was created by Congress in March 1865 to assist for one year in the transition from slavery to freedom in the South. It was renewed for a few years, then terminated by Congress in 1872, the year the federal government washed its hands of freedmen's problems for a few decades.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-04-12 15:08|| 2010-04-12 15:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Have we ever, in the modern history of the US, dismantled a bureaucratic entity?

Yes. The Interstate Commerce Commission.

(1887 1995) First regulatory agency established in the U.S. and a prototype for independent government regulatory bodies. An agency of the U.S. Department of Transportation, it was responsible for the economic regulation of interstate surface transportation, including railroads, trucking companies, and buslines. It certified carriers, regulated rates, oversaw mergers, and approved railroad construction. The ICC was dissolved in 1995.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-04-12 16:00|| 2010-04-12 16:00|| Front Page Top

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