It took us a long time to get here and we will not remedy our problem in one term or with one man. cutting off the heroin of government largess overnight will cause REAL social chaos and in the end will build support for an even more socialist, controlling government.
Start with eliminating support to NPR, National Endowment for the Arts and similar.
the charter for the Fed should be revoked and ALL currency/monetary policy returned to the Treasury.
EPA is at best redundant and IMO worthless and has no reason to exist. If there are legitimate functions, place in Dept of Interior.
A lot of initial steps could be made with minimal social unrest by consolidating functions before they can be cut later down the line. For example, the only program in Dept of Ag that needs to (short term) survive is food rations. Move that to HHS and shut down Ag.
Department of Energy includes the NNSA. It was placed there specifically to keep it out of DoD. Needs to find a new home. The rest are likely unnecessary but cutting management for critical infrastructure will be delicate. Industry will need time to gear up for a new paradigm.
There are some educational programs that should be supported for national security and competitiveness reasons, such as key and low density foreign languages and STEM programs. Return educational support to the original national DEFENSE Student Loan program and cut out support to worthless degrees. If there is critical training that is lacking in the market place eg precision manufacturing skills) that can be included. Move all to Labor (must retain short term as part of the gradual process) and strip Labor of the union advocacy role.
Elimination by consolidation, moving functions and not personnel, is a reasonable first step.
It took us a long time to get here and we will not remedy our problem in one term or with one man. cutting off the heroin of government largess overnight will cause REAL social chaos and in the end will build support for an even more socialist, controlling government.
Start with eliminating support to NPR, National Endowment for the Arts and similar.
the charter for the Fed should be revoked and ALL currency/monetary policy returned to the Treasury.
EPA is at best redundant and IMO worthless and has no reason to exist. If there are legitimate functions, place in Dept of Interior.
A lot of initial steps could be made with minimal social unrest by consolidating functions before they can be cut later down the line. For example, the only program in Dept of Ag that needs to (short term) survive is food rations. Move that to HHS and shut down Ag.
Department of Energy includes the NNSA. It was placed there specifically to keep it out of DoD. Needs to find a new home. The rest are likely unnecessary but cutting management for critical infrastructure will be delicate. Industry will need time to gear up for a new paradigm.
There are some educational programs that should be supported for national security and competitiveness reasons, such as key and low density foreign languages and STEM programs. Return educational support to the original national DEFENSE Student Loan program and cut out support to worthless degrees. If there is critical training that is lacking in the market place eg precision manufacturing skills) that can be included. Move all to Labor (must retain short term as part of the gradual process) and strip Labor of the union advocacy role.
Elimination by consolidation, moving functions and not personnel, is a reasonable first step.