Often a new program or department does serve a useful purpose. Contrary to what our liberal friends would have us believe, conservatives do not want contaminated soil, dirty air, polluted water, or destruction of beauty, wildlife, forests, etc. And I am pretty sure every single one of us approved cleaning up toxic dump sites, polluted waterways, and controlling emissions from those smoking factories. Conservatives want the best possible schools for their children and they want clean, efficient, effective, affordable, and plentiful energy supplies.
But there comes a time when a government bureaucracy is no long doing just what it was created to do but begins to grow itself and develop a huge appetite for taxpayer money and for power. Sooner or later they begin to exist for their own sakes and they focus on looking for ways to make those who love big government think they are doing something constructive so that their budgets will be expanded and they will become ever more powerful and invasive into more and more that generates even bigger budgets.
And sooner or later they aren't doing their jobs any more but they are actually hurting the people they were created to serve.
That has happened to Energy, Education, Commerce, and the EPA. It is time to pull the plug on all of them and start over with small efficient effective programs that actually are serving the needs of the people.
But there comes a time when a government bureaucracy is no long doing just what it was created to do but begins to grow itself and develop a huge appetite for taxpayer money and for power. Sooner or later they begin to exist for their own sakes and they focus on looking for ways to make those who love big government think they are doing something constructive so that their budgets will be expanded and they will become ever more powerful and invasive into more and more that generates even bigger budgets.
And sooner or later they aren't doing their jobs any more but they are actually hurting the people they were created to serve.
That has happened to Energy, Education, Commerce, and the EPA. It is time to pull the plug on all of them and start over with small efficient effective programs that actually are serving the needs of the people.