The 108th Congress should:
- eliminate the Cabinet-level
Departments of Agriculture,
Interior, Transportation,
and Veterans Affairs;
- close down major
independent agencies such as the Tennessee Valley
Authority, the Small Business Administration, the Corporation
for National and Community Service,
the Legal Services Corporation,
and the Appalachian Regional Commission; and
- terminate obscure
independent agencies like the Advisory Council
on Historic Preservation, the Japan–United States Friendship
Commission, the Marine Mammal Commission, America’s
Education Goals Panel, the State Justice Institute, and the
United States Institute of Peace.
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Bureaucracy
Privatization in a
post 9-11 world
Pundits and policy-wonks seem to use the word
"privatization" in two different ways:
- Instead of Government workers building schools that
government wants, government hires private contractors to
build schools that the government wants.
- Instead of the Government building the schools it
wants, parents build the schools they want using
the miracle of the Free Market.
Members of The Christmas
Conspiracy oppose
"privatization" in the first sense, and defend only
privatization in the second sense. "Privatization" in
the first sense might save a few dollars, but locks out the
possibility of saving much more, and of more effectively meeting
the demands of consumers.
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