Quote Originally Posted by rick3117:
I would love to hear your take on what the CIA has protected us from, but that is another discussion.
I am not so sure I understand why a single transparent Government entity that has an investigations, and Intelligence wing would be a bad idea. What is the benefit of having dozens of departments that are doing the same thing. The redundancy is mind boggling.
I am not sure why the alternative energy companies need an entire department to hand out grants? I think that a single congressman could earmark funds to get this company to set up shop in their district. That is what earmarks are for. The Dept of energy is guilty of giving out 80% of government "green energy" loans to Obama contributors. That does not sit well with me, and again the subsidies to big oil are asinine, as are the ethanol subsidies. If these things had to come up in earmarks, and politicians were forced to atone for their earmarks for big oil or wasteful ethanol, I think there would be more discretion.
IF the government did not regulate the TSA and FAA how would that change the law that makes it illegal to smoke on a plane or tamper with smoke detectors?
If the DEA was abolished, Drugs would still be illegal unless legislation was passed in addition to the disbanding of the DEA.
Most of the regulations that help you sleep at night would still be law.
Any business has a right to say that they do not want firearms, or weapons in their place of business. I am not for allowing people to fly armed.
Why would an airline hire non-qualified pilots to fly their multi-million dollar investment?
Standards would still exist. Just as they do in industry regulated environments.
I agree Americans are terrified of everything. They do not realize that they have a better chance of being eaten by a great white shark than they do of being in a terrorist attack. Or a greater chance of dying in a car crash on the way to the airport than actually falling out of the sky in a plane crash.
The CIA disaster that led to 9/11 was catastrophic under georgie w. And on top of that the family members of bin laden were escorted out of the country but to give the CIA the benefit of the doubt that they are organization that keeps us safe I think is fair unless you delve in to torture and what KOAJ said.
Why do you think the redundancy is a problem within the various security departments. I'm not going to come up with an argument for each department but it's a lot easier said than done to say that we can just combine all of these departments into 1. I'm sure you could with certain ones. But definitely not a large number of them.
My argument for energy is very simple the feds have more money than state and local govt therefore they should fund the research for alternative sources. I don't understand what your problem with that is? The feds should generate more funding to scientific research. And they're the only entity that has that kind of money to do so; that is not interested in a profit.
The law to smoke on an airplane is a federal aviation regulation. If the TSA and FAA were privatized and the discretion was up to the airlines why wouldn't these airlines then allow smoking on the plane if it would generate more profit. That law is due to the fact that the FAA and TSA are govt run departments.
Yeah most of the departments would not be removed however there is also a very slim chance that RP wins the primaries.
Sure standards would exist but they have to be regulated imo. Americans feel safer. Which puts you in the minority.
Are you in the military. Why not make one giant military branch. Get rid of the marines, air force, navy, army, seals, rangers, coast guard. And just have a do it all military that would learn to do everything.
Now I would not support that and I doubt anyone would. But it's a lot easier to come up with arguments against creating one military branch. And its a lot easier for you to criticize certain departments and say that their job is useless and could be combined with other departments.
You have to regulate entities that our out to do one thing, make a profit. That's the simplest way to put it.
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