If you could eliminate cabinet departments, then which one would you eliminate first?

[hondo 50]

I'd start with the Dept of Ed. Schools are not only managed at the county level, but also at the state level. That is redundant. Why in the world would any sensible person have a national department.

Ag. Farmers don't know how to grow food?

DHS. More redundancy.

Interior. Some pretending that you're doing anything but harassing injuns and Bundy.

 

[blackhawk]

Education the states and local governments know better what their schools need than a department in DC.

 

[lg325]

All cabinets need a good going over to see if they can be improved. I am one who believes we need some sort of national Policy on education. We are falling way behind and to me it is a national security issue.

 

[IM2]

None. Maybe we need to learn why they were created because most people here are painfully lacking in the knowledge of our history.

 

[Mack The Finger]

I'd start with the Dept of Ed. Schools are not only managed at the county level, but also at the state level. That is redundant. Why in the world would any sensible person have a national department.

Ag. Farmers don't know how to grow food?

DHS. More redundancy.

Interior. Some pretending that you're doing anything but harassing injuns and Bundy.

NONE !

But if we could get the dept of ED to only do there J O B....things would be better !

 

[kyzr]

Here they all are:

The U.S. Cabinet consists of 15 executive departments, including Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, Veterans Affairs, and Justice (led by the Attorney General). Each department is headed by a secretary who advises the President on relevant issues.

HUD has always been the biggest rathole to keep wasting money on.

 

[Dragonlady]

I'd start with the Dept of Ed. Schools are not only managed at the county level, but also at the state level. That is redundant. Why in the world would any sensible person have a national department.

Ag. Farmers don't know how to grow food?

DHS. More redundancy.

Interior. Some pretending that you're doing anything but harassing injuns and Bundy.

National standards. When the Constitution was written, you had 13 states, spread out along the Atlantic coastline, from Maine to the Carolinas. The weather, farming conditions, flora and fauna, all differently greatly from state to state.

What you needed to learn to be a farmer in Maine, was quite different to what you needed to know to be a farmer in Georgia. Given that people were born, lived and died within a 50 mile radius, education needed to be local.

Today, the USA is no longer an agrarian economy, and EVERYONE needs to the same basic education = reading, writing and history, and you need national standards throughout the country. Your public school education system is under assault by the red states.

Why do Republicans support everything that makes Americans fatter, dumber, and less capable.

 

[ColonelAngus]

EPA is trash.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

National standards. When the Constitution was written, you had 13 states, spread out along the Atlantic coastline, from Maine to the Carolinas. The weather, farming conditions, flora and fauna, all differently greatly from state to state.

What you needed to learn to be a farmer in Maine, was quite different to what you needed to know to be a farmer in Georgia. Given that people were born, lived and died within a 50 mile radius, education needed to be local.

Today, the USA is no longer an agrarian economy, and EVERYONE needs to the same basic education = reading, writing and history, and you need national standards throughout the country. Your public school education system is under assault by the red states.

Why do Republicans support everything that makes Americans fatter, dumber, and less capable.

 

[kyzr]

EPA is trash.

They are there to deal with "superfund" sites. Real environmental disasters. Not to make ticky-tack regulations.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

I'd start with the Dept of Ed. Schools are not only managed at the county level, but also at the state level. That is redundant. Why in the world would any sensible person have a national department.

Ag. Farmers don't know how to grow food?

DHS. More redundancy.

Interior. Some pretending that you're doing anything but harassing injuns and Bundy.

Everything that is not mentioned in the Constitution.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

National standards. When the Constitution was written, you had 13 states, spread out along the Atlantic coastline, from Maine to the Carolinas. The weather, farming conditions, flora and fauna, all differently greatly from state to state.

What you needed to learn to be a farmer in Maine, was quite different to what you needed to know to be a farmer in Georgia. Given that people were born, lived and died within a 50 mile radius, education needed to be local.

Today, the USA is no longer an agrarian economy, and EVERYONE needs to the same basic education = reading, writing and history, and you need national standards throughout the country. Your public school education system is under assault by the red states.

Why do Republicans support everything that makes Americans fatter, dumber, and less capable.

Bottom of the list.

The 15 Countries With the Best Education: 2025 Ranking

This article ranks the 15 countries with the best education systems, which offer quality teaching, resources, and student success.

www.globalcitizensolutions.com

 

[gipper]

I'd start with the Dept of Ed. Schools are not only managed at the county level, but also at the state level. That is redundant. Why in the world would any sensible person have a national department.

Ag. Farmers don't know how to grow food?

DHS. More redundancy.

Interior. Some pretending that you're doing anything but harassing injuns and Bundy.

All of them. We need a new and different government or maybe eliminate government altogether.

 

[Dean F]

None. Maybe we need to learn why they were created because most people here are painfully lacking in the knowledge of our history.

Were the reasons for their creation good reasons? Were they successful? If they were successful, then have they outlived their usefulness.

 

[Dean F]

Today, the USA is no longer an agrarian economy, and EVERYONE needs to the same basic education = reading, writing and history,

But liberals I know are against basics. That's why homeschooling started.

 

[Dean F]

you need national standards throughout the country.

Gee, I guess all those people at the state level don't know a thing.

 

[ColonelAngus]

They are there to deal with "superfund" sites. Real environmental disasters. Not to make ticky-tack regulations.

Precisely.

Mission creep BIGLY.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I'd start with the Dept of Ed. Schools are not only managed at the county level, but also at the state level. That is redundant. Why in the world would any sensible person have a national department.

Ag. Farmers don't know how to grow food?

DHS. More redundancy.

Interior. Some pretending that you're doing anything but harassing injuns and Bundy.

All of the above plus

ATF

Tennessee Valley Authority "In 2023, Jeff Lyash, the CEO of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), was paid $10.5 million, making him the highest paid federal employee. This was an 8% increase from the previous year"

 

[Dragonlady]

Gee, I guess all those people at the state level don't know a thing.

They DO know what they're doing. They're cutting funds for poor kids in poor neighbourhoods, and degrading the public school education system. Red states are using the schools to distort history, and degrade the American education system.

An educated voter, doesn't vote for Republicans.

 

[Dragonlady]

All of the above plus

ATF

Tennessee Valley Authority "In 2023, Jeff Lyash, the CEO of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), was paid $10.5 million, making him the highest paid federal employee. This was an 8% increase from the previous year"

I will agree with you on the TVA - not that it should be eliminated, but that the President should be fired. But this guy was hired by the Trump Administration in 2019:

The $15.5 Million Federal Agency CEO — At The Tennessee Valley Authority

CEO Jeffrey Lyash’s compensation amounted to $8.2 million in 2019 and $7.3 million in 2020.

www.forbes.com