The right wants to get rid of:
The entire Department of Education, which includes but is not limited to:
Elimination of Pell Grants
Elimination of federally subsidized student loans
The entire Department of Energy, which includes but is not limited to:
Elimination of Nuclear weapons - these weapons, while its arguable we don't need so many, are crucial to our national security. Why the right would want to eliminate them is beside me.
Elimination of Nuclear weapons intelligence - also handled by the DOE, our knowledge of our enemies AND friends nuclear weapons arsenal - even today - are crucial.
Elimination of Marketing of hydroelectric power from existing hydroelectric structures to consumers. whatever you feel about developing future hydro-power, why wouldn't we want to use hydro-power that's already available?
Add to that list:
EPA
Obamacare
TSA
IRS
FTC
Amtrak
USPS
HLS
ATF
USDA
Thanks.
Why don't we just close down Washington and divest the union into the 50 states as entirely separate sovereign entities?
Tried that with the articles of confederation. Doesn't work.
She's not advocating that either, but with the exception of the USPS and IRS, none of those are constitutionally described powers of the US government but are 'found' powers through distorting the tax code, Interstate Commerce Clause and "Good n' Plenty" clause.
Why is it the left hyperventilates there is even a moderate or reasonable roll back of federal power?
The DoEd has been very problematic and has no constitutional basis for existing. Tax monies now not collected could easily find themselves into private scholarships based on merit or other criterion. Pell Grants are unnecessary. Secondly, the DoEd has done nothing to address the root reasons of the rising costs of education. They just bandage the wound by increasing the budget by increased taxes and keep paying.
As for the EPA, FTC, USDA as mentioned, They have ALL gone past their original scope after they had succeeded in an effort to keep their money flowing. Do-gooders and busybodies have been using the agencies to push social agendas for decades. Yes, there is a purpose to their existence, there were problems. 99% of those problems were fixed, and its time to stop tinkering, roll back their overinvolvement in the lives of this nation and be reasonable again.
Amtrak is worthless and unconstitutional because it socialized an entire dying industry and now we're stuck with it. Give passenger service back to the private companies and stay the **** out of it, save for passenger labor and industry safety and let the industry do what it's going to do. If it fails, let it. If it grows, great. Let it.
As for your whining bout the Dept. of Energy? Nuclear weapons can instantly be folded back into the DoD where they belong, along with Nest and any security jobs and intel. To falsely claim the GOP wants to get rid of nukes is facile and blatantly stupid. The express reason Carter gave when making this Dept was to lower gas costs and make our nation energy INDEPENDENT. Has it come close to this goal? Nope. We're even farther away today than we were then. It's completely failed. Time for it to go and farm out the important bits which are very limited in scope to their proper cabinets.