Which Federal Dept. needs to be eliminated?

[Lawnboy13]

The following shows the Departments, year established, number of employees, & yearly budget. NOTE: employees and budgets are rounded up from last reported data.

 

Interior (1849) - 70,000 - 21 Billion

Agriculture (1862) - 106,000 - 140 Billion

Commerce (1903) - 44,000 - 8.6 Billion

Labor (1913) - 17,500 - 105 Billion

Health and Human Services (1953) - 80,000 - 1 Trillion

Housing and Urban Development (1965) - 8,500 - 33 Billion

Transportation (1966) - 59,000 - 77 Billion

Energy (1977) - 14,000 federal 93,000 contract - 31 Billion

Education (1980) - 5,000 - 70 Billion

[Lawnboy13]

Dept. of Education needs to go 1st.......we already have state departments of Education, we can save throwing money away to the Feds to pay salaries, insurance, & pensions for something we definitely don't need. The Federal budget for Education could be funneled back equally to the states.

[StickerMann]

The following shows the Departments, year established, number of employees, & yearly budget. NOTE: employees and budgets are rounded up from last reported data.

 

Interior (1849) - 70,000 - 21 Billion

Agriculture (1862) - 106,000 - 140 Billion

Commerce (1903) - 44,000 - 8.6 Billion

Labor (1913) - 17,500 - 105 Billion

Health and Human Services (1953) - 80,000 - 1 Trillion

Housing and Urban Development (1965) - 8,500 - 33 Billion

Transportation (1966) - 59,000 - 77 Billion

Energy (1977) - 14,000 federal 93,000 contract - 31 Billion

Education (1980) - 5,000 - 70 Billion

 

These are staggering numbers--$1 Trillion for H & HS--Insane! Guessing they must dole out most of Bernie's "Free Stuff"?? Education--5000 people with a budget of $70 billion to do what--Create lower & lower results??

 

Our government is totally out of control!!

[Bluegrasscard]

These are staggering numbers--$1 Trillion for H & HS--Insane! Guessing they must dole out most of Bernie's "Free Stuff"?? Education--5000 people with a budget of $70 billion to do what--Create lower & lower results??

 

Our government is totally out of control!!

 

Treasury (not on LBs list) will go up and up in the future. Not due to staffing but due to interest on the (ever growing) debt.

 

HHS and Treasury become the drivers to Federal spending in the near future. The projected numbers for almost all other departments actually go down according to the outlook. They have to - or at least have be projected to go down. Otherwide the outlooks would be disastrous.

 

To anyone under 40 out there - sorry. We left you a complete mess in this area that will last long after many of us are gone.

[bballfamily]

There is nothing in the Constitution about education, that is the job of the states. My second choice would be the Energy Dept. It produces no energy, it only uses energy and lots of money.

[Twotoplace]

Why is there a Department of the Interior but not a Department of the Exterior?

[OlDog75]

Why is there a Department of the Interior but not a Department of the Exterior?

 

Or Department of Posterior, 'cause they do a good job covering that.

[Lawnboy13]

Or Department of Posterior, 'cause they do a good job covering that.

 

:clap:

[TAC]

Post office. Sub it out to lawn boy and his competitor.

[capt278]

IRS, it's not on the list but needs to go bye bye or at least a major thinning of the herd.

[Bengal Maniac]

I don't think any need to be eliminated, however, better accountability and control would be nice.

[Hellcats]

I don't think any need to be eliminated, however, better accountability and control would be nice.

 

With you Bengal. I could only imagine Texas' education system without answering to the Feds.

[mcpapa]

With you Bengal. I could only imagine Texas' education system without answering to the Feds.

 

Yikes!

[LIPTON BASH]

With you Bengal. I could only imagine Texas' education system without answering to the Feds.

 

The Feds should have no power over education. They blackmail local governments with our tax dollars. Education should be a local issue.

[Jim Schue]

The Feds should have no power over education. They blackmail local governments with our tax dollars. Education should be a local issue.

 

So individual states should be able to allow their children to grow up in crummy schools, should they choose? That kind of thinking set certain parts of this state way behind the 8-ball, and they're still struggling to catch up. Tennessee too.

 

I get where your argument is coming from, philosophically, but history shows it doesn't work. Some states will invariably sacrifice education for roads (like Tennessee, historically) or other expenditures. Certain states are fine with the serfs being dumb and malleable.