It’s so tragic, Obama is a leader with a fine liberal social agenda but simply too financially liberal and ambitious. I simply can’t agree with his solution and main agenda; health care, the economy, education and the environment.
1. Health care. So everyone has insurance or other access to health care? There is already a shortage of supply…that is doctors and other care providers. You simply can’t increase demand without increasing supply. And it’s the fault of the providers and politics like the AMA, ADA and others. Increase the supply of doctors and dentists and fees will go down allowing people to afford health care. It’s called free market capitalism.
2. The Economy. This is nothing but $800 billion of pork. And it’ll be just like the last infusion and another $800 billion in 6 months. Let’s let free market capitalism take over and discover the real prices of homes and etc.
And as far as the banks and other corporate greed, once we change the corporate laws to give the stakeholder back his rights we will have millions of shareholders riding herd on corporate America rather than a few corrupt government bureaucrats. See Fixing Wall Street and Washington DC: http://leezehrer.blogspot.com/2009/01/fixing-wall-street-washington-dc.html
3. Education. While education is a good thing the problem is not the lack of money. The problem is the bureaucratic, top heavy and Federally mandated agenda. Get the Feds out of education and turn it back to the states. Not only that, education only has a payoff 10, 20 and 30 years forward, this will do nothing to solve our current crisis.
4. The Environment. With most of the environmental issues were going off half cocked with only half the science and all the hype. This is going to be a very deep rat hole with tremendous waste until we have the definitive solutions.
For example: Global Warming Hubris: Carbon Credit Market is a "Feel-Good About Polluting" SCAM, Nothing More: http://thunderferret.blogspot.com/2008/05/global-warming-hubris-carbon-credit.html
The carbon offset market is FINALLY being shown to be a huge fraud that takes provides those with a guilty conscience (about contributing to the world's carbon emission problem) a "feel-good" solution that ultimately does nothing. This is really dumb. And now some in the media seem to be treating the carbon market with a bit of well-earned skepticism.
Friday, February 27, 2009
My Top 10 Films
1. Casablanca
2. Dr. Zhivago
3. Idiocracy
4. Caddyshack
5. Apocalypse Now
6. Forrest Gump
7. Full Metal Jacket
8. Platoon
9. Good Morning, Vietnam
10. Fourth of July
11. Easy Rider
I know, you can tell I’m a vet, I Vietnam vet that is. I was Navy with the First Marines in I Corps (Chu Lai to Da Nang and north) 1967-68 including TET in Hue City.
Someone once said all war stories are true stories. I think that’s true because it’s pretty much how we remember them. While no war story is absolutely true it doesn’t mean we’re lying because war stories are different. Nothing can match the highs, the lows, the excitement, the adrenaline, the fright and the aliveness of war. Some guys get addicted to it. There is no possible way to match the emotions of a fire fight or rocket barrage DURING and AFTER. NONE….ABSOLUTELY NONE, NADA. Although I’ve never been in a firefight I’ve had my share of rocket and artillery barrages.
While I was only a Dental Technician and First Aid Medic I spent most of my time in the field. Figure that one? It is said that no one really wins a war but one side just fucks up less than the other. In that case there is no question why we lost Vietnam.
2. Dr. Zhivago
3. Idiocracy
4. Caddyshack
5. Apocalypse Now
6. Forrest Gump
7. Full Metal Jacket
8. Platoon
9. Good Morning, Vietnam
10. Fourth of July
11. Easy Rider
I know, you can tell I’m a vet, I Vietnam vet that is. I was Navy with the First Marines in I Corps (Chu Lai to Da Nang and north) 1967-68 including TET in Hue City.
Someone once said all war stories are true stories. I think that’s true because it’s pretty much how we remember them. While no war story is absolutely true it doesn’t mean we’re lying because war stories are different. Nothing can match the highs, the lows, the excitement, the adrenaline, the fright and the aliveness of war. Some guys get addicted to it. There is no possible way to match the emotions of a fire fight or rocket barrage DURING and AFTER. NONE….ABSOLUTELY NONE, NADA. Although I’ve never been in a firefight I’ve had my share of rocket and artillery barrages.
While I was only a Dental Technician and First Aid Medic I spent most of my time in the field. Figure that one? It is said that no one really wins a war but one side just fucks up less than the other. In that case there is no question why we lost Vietnam.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
A Carfree Culture
The auto is great for intra city transportation at times but not for commuting, suburban sprawl and that trip to the convenience store and the shopping center.
In the long run we will need to live in sky scrapers in the city where we make the smallest footprint, where we can walk to work and wear off calories rather than sitting in traffic, where we can shop, where we can have parks where kids can play and puppies can run, where we can take the elevator and within walking distance have 100 restaurants and coffee shops and where we can again meet our neighbors and say hi rather than giving them the finger when they don’t yield the right of way.
Once we eliminate all the parking and parking lots, all the support services for the auto, all the six lane boulevards that spread out our cities we will again have pedestrian friendly cities as the “old towns” are in Europe. (Then we should take all this money were saving and resources and human resources we’re wasting and cure cancer, heart disease and others. Then we’d be talking quality of life.)
Pedestrians are so much more efficient at people flow than cars where one has to go single file (per lane) and at a safe distance. Many many more people can pass a certain point on a sidewalk than even a multilane highway.
I have been to Eastern Europe, China and India. Some of the fastest growing industries are the automobile and related. But it really doesn’t matter because everything is gridlock anyway in the cities. But the point is, another 5 billion people in the world cannot burn the resources for a car culture that we in America and Western Europe does now. It’s not just oil but all the other natural resources that we trash the earth to get at and for what? If you really think about it the automobile adds absolutely nothing the quality of life and actually takes away from it.
In another 25 years there will be 9 billion people in the world all wanting to drive cars. Whether it’s global warming or lack of resources the car culture is dead in the long run.
Whether we like it or not it’s the beginning of the end to the suburbs and Wall-Marts and suburban shopping centers. We can’t pave over the whole world. The country is for golf courses, cows and trees to use the CO2 we’re producing. I hear our American way of life needs to be protected but I cannot find one good thing about this car culture we have. Another thing I don’t understand are the traffic fatalities we put up with. We have some 43,000 traffic deaths in the US every year with another 500,000 serious injuries. Terrorism is not even an issue compared to this yet the idiots in the White House have spent $3.4 trillion on this “war”.
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And wouldn’t it be nice to stop funding these countries who hate us?
How about humans living in cities and leaving the country for cows, squirrels and golf courses? I’ve moved to a condo in downtown Seattle:
1.I no longer waste TIME and MONEY commuting. I just watch the commuters waste their time in that “parking lot” twice/day while I’m reading a good book or magazine.
2.I have a choice of about 100 restaurants with walking distance for lunch and dinner. Same goes for entertainment. Actually I have a lot of money left over for both since I no longer need a car.
3.When I do need a car less than once/month I just rent one.
4.My ecological footprint in a condo/apartment is a fraction of a single-family. There is at least a 75% reduction in energy consumption and a 90% decrease in smog causing pollutants.
5.Have I mentioned all the extra time I have since I don’t have to maintain that single-family house.
6.There are 4 decent parks within 1 mile to enjoy and walk the dogs. (Our cities need more parks though and we also need to get the vagrants out of the parks – both are solvable problems.)
7.If I had kids they would have a pool, sauna, recreation room and other benefits they would never have in a single-family.
8.I get lots of exercise walking to lunch, coffee shops and shopping every day. (You get ABSOLUTELY NO exercise going to the 7-11 in your SUV.)
9.I find it particularly entertaining walking the streets. In the suburbs the distances are forbidding and sidewalks are deserted.
10.I also save the time I would spend washing, gassing, fixing and all those other car maintenance jobs.
11.I feel good not sending money to the foreigners so they can use it to buy our assets and finance terrorism.
12.Almost all government services like police, fire, ambulance and utilities are more economical in the city.
Now I just have to refocus my assets since I’m convinced the outer suburbs will become the new American slums. But that’ll be a good thing since they can then go back to parks and nature for people to enjoy and also eliminate the CO2.
And this all just stands to reason. Nine billion people in this world cannot live in single-family homes with an hour commute every day.
James Kunstler:"There are many ways of describing the fiasco of suburbia, but these days I refer to it as the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.
I say this because American suburbia requires an infinite supply of cheap energy in order to function and we have now entered a permanent global energy crisis that will change the whole equation of daily life. Having poured a half-century of our national wealth into a living arrangement with no future — and linked our very identity with it — we have provoked a powerful psychology of previous investment that will make it difficult for us to let go, change our behavior, and make other arrangements.
Compounding the problem is the fact that we ditched our manufacturing economy for a suburban sprawl building economy (a.k.a. “the housing bubble”), meaning we came to base our economy on building even more stuff with no future."
In the long run we will need to live in sky scrapers in the city where we make the smallest footprint, where we can walk to work and wear off calories rather than sitting in traffic, where we can shop, where we can have parks where kids can play and puppies can run, where we can take the elevator and within walking distance have 100 restaurants and coffee shops and where we can again meet our neighbors and say hi rather than giving them the finger when they don’t yield the right of way.
Once we eliminate all the parking and parking lots, all the support services for the auto, all the six lane boulevards that spread out our cities we will again have pedestrian friendly cities as the “old towns” are in Europe. (Then we should take all this money were saving and resources and human resources we’re wasting and cure cancer, heart disease and others. Then we’d be talking quality of life.)
Pedestrians are so much more efficient at people flow than cars where one has to go single file (per lane) and at a safe distance. Many many more people can pass a certain point on a sidewalk than even a multilane highway.
I have been to Eastern Europe, China and India. Some of the fastest growing industries are the automobile and related. But it really doesn’t matter because everything is gridlock anyway in the cities. But the point is, another 5 billion people in the world cannot burn the resources for a car culture that we in America and Western Europe does now. It’s not just oil but all the other natural resources that we trash the earth to get at and for what? If you really think about it the automobile adds absolutely nothing the quality of life and actually takes away from it.
In another 25 years there will be 9 billion people in the world all wanting to drive cars. Whether it’s global warming or lack of resources the car culture is dead in the long run.
Whether we like it or not it’s the beginning of the end to the suburbs and Wall-Marts and suburban shopping centers. We can’t pave over the whole world. The country is for golf courses, cows and trees to use the CO2 we’re producing. I hear our American way of life needs to be protected but I cannot find one good thing about this car culture we have. Another thing I don’t understand are the traffic fatalities we put up with. We have some 43,000 traffic deaths in the US every year with another 500,000 serious injuries. Terrorism is not even an issue compared to this yet the idiots in the White House have spent $3.4 trillion on this “war”.
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And wouldn’t it be nice to stop funding these countries who hate us?
How about humans living in cities and leaving the country for cows, squirrels and golf courses? I’ve moved to a condo in downtown Seattle:
1.I no longer waste TIME and MONEY commuting. I just watch the commuters waste their time in that “parking lot” twice/day while I’m reading a good book or magazine.
2.I have a choice of about 100 restaurants with walking distance for lunch and dinner. Same goes for entertainment. Actually I have a lot of money left over for both since I no longer need a car.
3.When I do need a car less than once/month I just rent one.
4.My ecological footprint in a condo/apartment is a fraction of a single-family. There is at least a 75% reduction in energy consumption and a 90% decrease in smog causing pollutants.
5.Have I mentioned all the extra time I have since I don’t have to maintain that single-family house.
6.There are 4 decent parks within 1 mile to enjoy and walk the dogs. (Our cities need more parks though and we also need to get the vagrants out of the parks – both are solvable problems.)
7.If I had kids they would have a pool, sauna, recreation room and other benefits they would never have in a single-family.
8.I get lots of exercise walking to lunch, coffee shops and shopping every day. (You get ABSOLUTELY NO exercise going to the 7-11 in your SUV.)
9.I find it particularly entertaining walking the streets. In the suburbs the distances are forbidding and sidewalks are deserted.
10.I also save the time I would spend washing, gassing, fixing and all those other car maintenance jobs.
11.I feel good not sending money to the foreigners so they can use it to buy our assets and finance terrorism.
12.Almost all government services like police, fire, ambulance and utilities are more economical in the city.
Now I just have to refocus my assets since I’m convinced the outer suburbs will become the new American slums. But that’ll be a good thing since they can then go back to parks and nature for people to enjoy and also eliminate the CO2.
And this all just stands to reason. Nine billion people in this world cannot live in single-family homes with an hour commute every day.
James Kunstler:"There are many ways of describing the fiasco of suburbia, but these days I refer to it as the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.
I say this because American suburbia requires an infinite supply of cheap energy in order to function and we have now entered a permanent global energy crisis that will change the whole equation of daily life. Having poured a half-century of our national wealth into a living arrangement with no future — and linked our very identity with it — we have provoked a powerful psychology of previous investment that will make it difficult for us to let go, change our behavior, and make other arrangements.
Compounding the problem is the fact that we ditched our manufacturing economy for a suburban sprawl building economy (a.k.a. “the housing bubble”), meaning we came to base our economy on building even more stuff with no future."
Friday, January 9, 2009
Bullshit and Agnotology
So what if humans could eliminate all the bullshit listed below and spend the money, time and resources on the things that really mattered? Like eliminating disease and science.
If science doesn’t support it there is a 99% chance that it is bullshit. But I will agree there is about 1 chance out of 100 there may be something to it other than psychosomatic effect.
If you spend $100 million on food and shelter for the poor you benefit 1 million people by about $80 each (20% on administration) for a few days or months. If you spend $100 million on a cure for a disease you may benefit billions of people for many years. Here’s an example: www.alleninstitute.org/
Partial list of Bullshit that people in this 21st century actually believe: (Go here for a better list: http://www.skepdic.com/)
AA (Recent tests have proven that AA is no better than any other treatment)
Active investing in stocks and mutual funds rather than buying the index
Almost anything advertised by old washed up celebrities
Alien abductions
Aliens
Alternative diets
Alternative medicine
Angels
Any prophecy in the Bible, Koran or Talmud
Armageddon
Bigfoot
Bottled Water
Returnable Bottles
Advertised Business Opportunities
Channeling
Chupacabras
Complicated tax schemes and our income tax system
Creationism
Crop Circles
The Devil
Dream interpretation
Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) and Instrumental TransCommunication (ITC).
Environmental hysteria
ESP
Feng Shui
Food Supplements and especially those on radio and TV infomercials like Purity Products & Guthy-Renker
Ghosts
Big Government (The incompetency of government is directly related to its size.)
Homeopathy
Hypnosis
Hypnotherapy
Infomercials, Radio & TV (almost anything)
Loc Ness monster
Medicines and treatments without the science.
Mutilated animals in Montana (or where ever)
Near death experiences
Numerology
Organic, Fair Trade and Local Food/Produce
Paranormal
Past life regression
The Infallible Pope
Prayer
Psychics
Pyramid power
Reincarnation
Religion
Religion, organized
Remote viewing
Reptilian beings
Resurrections
Saints
Second hand smoke
Shadow people
Expensive Skin creams
Telepathy
The poltergeist
Tobacco
UFOs
United Nations
Vampires
Virgin births
Vitamins
War on drugs
Witches
World order
If science doesn’t support it there is a 99% chance that it is bullshit. But I will agree there is about 1 chance out of 100 there may be something to it other than psychosomatic effect.
If you spend $100 million on food and shelter for the poor you benefit 1 million people by about $80 each (20% on administration) for a few days or months. If you spend $100 million on a cure for a disease you may benefit billions of people for many years. Here’s an example: www.alleninstitute.org/
Partial list of Bullshit that people in this 21st century actually believe: (Go here for a better list: http://www.skepdic.com/)
AA (Recent tests have proven that AA is no better than any other treatment)
Active investing in stocks and mutual funds rather than buying the index
Almost anything advertised by old washed up celebrities
Alien abductions
Aliens
Alternative diets
Alternative medicine
Angels
Any prophecy in the Bible, Koran or Talmud
Armageddon
Bigfoot
Bottled Water
Returnable Bottles
Advertised Business Opportunities
Channeling
Chupacabras
Complicated tax schemes and our income tax system
Creationism
Crop Circles
The Devil
Dream interpretation
Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) and Instrumental TransCommunication (ITC).
Environmental hysteria
ESP
Feng Shui
Food Supplements and especially those on radio and TV infomercials like Purity Products & Guthy-Renker
Ghosts
Big Government (The incompetency of government is directly related to its size.)
Homeopathy
Hypnosis
Hypnotherapy
Infomercials, Radio & TV (almost anything)
Loc Ness monster
Medicines and treatments without the science.
Mutilated animals in Montana (or where ever)
Near death experiences
Numerology
Organic, Fair Trade and Local Food/Produce
Paranormal
Past life regression
The Infallible Pope
Prayer
Psychics
Pyramid power
Reincarnation
Religion
Religion, organized
Remote viewing
Reptilian beings
Resurrections
Saints
Second hand smoke
Shadow people
Expensive Skin creams
Telepathy
The poltergeist
Tobacco
UFOs
United Nations
Vampires
Virgin births
Vitamins
War on drugs
Witches
World order
10 Things or services I can’t live without
1. My Victorinox pen knife.
1. iPod or listening device with audible books.
2. Sonicare toothbrush.
3. Fast laptop computer (under 4 pounds) with a high speed Internet connection.
4. ETF’s (Exchange-Traded Funds) Index and broadbased and especially from Vanguard. You can’t beat them for their fees and you can’t beat the Market anyway.
5. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. This should be required reading for every American and for every human if I was king. Writings of Thomas Jefferson would not hurt either.
6. Gourmet coffee. Other than the gourmet coffee shops you still can’t get good coffee most places in America, even in many expensive restaurants and hotels.
7. Living in the central city where everything is available without the car. At the moment I live in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle. Driving is nothing but a waste of time. When I walk I not only get exercise buy can listen to my books on my iPod. Automobiles and the automobile culture is one of the most destructive technologies of mankind.
8. Vietnamese restaurants.
9. Science and reason as opposed to dogma and faith.
10. My Cocker Spaniels Lala & Diamond.
1. iPod or listening device with audible books.
2. Sonicare toothbrush.
3. Fast laptop computer (under 4 pounds) with a high speed Internet connection.
4. ETF’s (Exchange-Traded Funds) Index and broadbased and especially from Vanguard. You can’t beat them for their fees and you can’t beat the Market anyway.
5. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. This should be required reading for every American and for every human if I was king. Writings of Thomas Jefferson would not hurt either.
6. Gourmet coffee. Other than the gourmet coffee shops you still can’t get good coffee most places in America, even in many expensive restaurants and hotels.
7. Living in the central city where everything is available without the car. At the moment I live in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle. Driving is nothing but a waste of time. When I walk I not only get exercise buy can listen to my books on my iPod. Automobiles and the automobile culture is one of the most destructive technologies of mankind.
8. Vietnamese restaurants.
9. Science and reason as opposed to dogma and faith.
10. My Cocker Spaniels Lala & Diamond.
10 Things I Can Live Without.
1. A car. I live in the city and shop there thus saving time along with making the smallest footprint possible.
2. Suburbs. Man needs to live in the city and walk. Cities with skyscrapers, lots of parks, lakes and green. Walking for an hour or more a day is what most people (Americans) need instead of spewing pollution and sending money to the terrorists.
3. A private jet or expensive ocean going yacht. Next to the car private jets are nothing put a pollution and resource hungry device for people with over inflated egos and/or an inferiority complex. And both of these are extremely isolating.
4. Taxes. Regardless of the question, the answer is lower taxes. Ninety percent of the government budget is wasted.
5. Golf clubs. Goes without saying.
6. Designer clothes.
7. God (Religion).
8. "Help" from the government.
9. Hollywood Cinema. What crap!
10.
2. Suburbs. Man needs to live in the city and walk. Cities with skyscrapers, lots of parks, lakes and green. Walking for an hour or more a day is what most people (Americans) need instead of spewing pollution and sending money to the terrorists.
3. A private jet or expensive ocean going yacht. Next to the car private jets are nothing put a pollution and resource hungry device for people with over inflated egos and/or an inferiority complex. And both of these are extremely isolating.
4. Taxes. Regardless of the question, the answer is lower taxes. Ninety percent of the government budget is wasted.
5. Golf clubs. Goes without saying.
6. Designer clothes.
7. God (Religion).
8. "Help" from the government.
9. Hollywood Cinema. What crap!
10.
Fixing Wall Street & Washington, D.C.
A whole lot of problems on Wall Street and Washington DC could be taken care of by changes in our corporate laws. For example, there is lots of talk about excessive CEO pay but that is only a symptom of a more systemic problem.
Generally neglected by both politics and social reform-the corporation is a potential engine of progress. The extraordinary fallacies and failures of corporate law has caused this last crisis in our nation and the world today.
Public corporations need to get back into the business of promoting the public interest. Public corporations can be managed to promote the interests of all stakeholders, including shareholders, workers, creditors, and the communities in which corporations operate, while promoting both profits and social welfare. We need new principles for corporate law designed to serve the interests of society as a whole, while promoting both efficiency and justice.
Fixing Wall Street:
1. More democracy and empowered shareholders. If this was the case we wouldn't need caps on CEO salaries. Corporate law was developed around 400 years ago when there was a much more limited media and no Internet.
2. No reciprocal board seats. That is management and boards can’t serve on each other’s boards. The corporate veil needs to be much more permeable. When management screws up they can be fined and punished rather than the shareholders who have had nothing to do with it. As it is, management screws up and the corporation gets fined resulting in the shareholders paying.
3. Management paid bonuses over 5 year periods. Stock options only vest after 10 years. This would eliminate the need for clawbacks, insure more long term management decisions rather than quarter to quarter and year to year and stop the short term manipulation of the stock.
Fixing Washington DC:
1. Lobbying is now completely out of control and Corporate America owns Congress. There are now 40,000 registered lobbyists in Washington with bags of money making whores of our legislatures. We should eliminate corporate lobbying except by real persons (as opposed to entities like corporations and governments). As long as we continue to accept 'corporate personhood' as a valid declaration, there is no recourse. It gives Wal-Mart, AT&T, GM, etc. the same rights as actual living, breathing human beings - all the privileges of citizenship without any of the responsibilities or consequences for their failure to act responsibly.
The federal government/bureaucrats are beholden to the lobbyists in Washington who are paid by foreign governments and local and foreign corporations and any other freeloading organization with an agenda not remotely aligned and often at odds with the taxpaying US public. And do you know who benefits from the corporate lobbyists? One would think the stakeholders but that’s not the case. Its top management. And that's a whole other issue.
Also see Carl Ichan's analysis: http://www.icahnreport.com/
Generally neglected by both politics and social reform-the corporation is a potential engine of progress. The extraordinary fallacies and failures of corporate law has caused this last crisis in our nation and the world today.
Public corporations need to get back into the business of promoting the public interest. Public corporations can be managed to promote the interests of all stakeholders, including shareholders, workers, creditors, and the communities in which corporations operate, while promoting both profits and social welfare. We need new principles for corporate law designed to serve the interests of society as a whole, while promoting both efficiency and justice.
Fixing Wall Street:
1. More democracy and empowered shareholders. If this was the case we wouldn't need caps on CEO salaries. Corporate law was developed around 400 years ago when there was a much more limited media and no Internet.
2. No reciprocal board seats. That is management and boards can’t serve on each other’s boards. The corporate veil needs to be much more permeable. When management screws up they can be fined and punished rather than the shareholders who have had nothing to do with it. As it is, management screws up and the corporation gets fined resulting in the shareholders paying.
3. Management paid bonuses over 5 year periods. Stock options only vest after 10 years. This would eliminate the need for clawbacks, insure more long term management decisions rather than quarter to quarter and year to year and stop the short term manipulation of the stock.
Fixing Washington DC:
1. Lobbying is now completely out of control and Corporate America owns Congress. There are now 40,000 registered lobbyists in Washington with bags of money making whores of our legislatures. We should eliminate corporate lobbying except by real persons (as opposed to entities like corporations and governments). As long as we continue to accept 'corporate personhood' as a valid declaration, there is no recourse. It gives Wal-Mart, AT&T, GM, etc. the same rights as actual living, breathing human beings - all the privileges of citizenship without any of the responsibilities or consequences for their failure to act responsibly.
The federal government/bureaucrats are beholden to the lobbyists in Washington who are paid by foreign governments and local and foreign corporations and any other freeloading organization with an agenda not remotely aligned and often at odds with the taxpaying US public. And do you know who benefits from the corporate lobbyists? One would think the stakeholders but that’s not the case. Its top management. And that's a whole other issue.
Also see Carl Ichan's analysis: http://www.icahnreport.com/
436 Ratholes for Government Waste
List of 436 U.S. Federal Government Departments and Agencies.
There should be a Constitutional Amendment that every agency created has a life of 10 years and needs a separate act of Congress to recreate that agency again at the end of every 10 year period if that agency is to continue with whatever it does.
Ninety percent of these could probably be eliminated.
1. Administration on Aging (AOA)
2. Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
3. Administrative Committee of the Federal Register
4. Administrative Office of the U.S. Court
5. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
6. African Development Foundation
7. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
8. Agency for International Development
9. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
10. Agricultural Marketing Service
11. Agricultural Research Service
12. Agriculture Department (USDA)
13. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (Treasury)
14. Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Bureau (DOJ)
15. American Battle Monuments Commission
16. American Samoa
17. AMTRAK (National Railroad Passenger Corporation)
18. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
19. Appalachian Regional Commission
20. Architect of the Capitol
21. Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board)
22. Arctic Research Commission
23. Armed Forces Retirement Home
24. Arms Control and International Security
25. Army Corps of Engineers
26. Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Interagency Coordinating Committee
27. Bankruptcy Courts
28. Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation
29. Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs Office
30. Botanic Garden
31. Broadcasting Board of Governors (Voice of America, Radio/TV Marti and more)
32. Bureau of Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade (Treasury)
33. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (Justice)
34. Bureau of the Census
35. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
36. Bureau of Engraving and Printing
37. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
38. Bureau of Industry and Security (formerly the Bureau of Export Administration)
39. Bureau of International Labor Affairs
40. Bureau of Justice Statistics
41. Bureau of Labor Statistics
42. Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
43. Bureau of Prisons
44. Bureau of Public Debt
45. Bureau of Reclamation
46. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
47. Census Bureau
48. Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
49. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
50. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (formerly the Health Care Financing Administration)
51. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
52. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigations Board
53. Chief Financial Officers Council
54. Chief Information Officers Council
55. Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee
56. Citizenship and Immigration Services Bureau (formerly Immigration and Naturalization Service)
57. Civilian Radioactive Waste Management
58. Coalition Provisional Authority (in Iraq)
59. Coalition Provisional Authority Inspector General
60. Commerce Department
61. Commission of Fine Arts
62. Commission on Civil Rights
63. Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
64. Commission on International Religious Freedom
65. Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements
66. Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
67. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
68. Community Development Office (Agriculture Department)
69. Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)
70. Community Planning and Development
71. Comptroller of the Currency Office
72. Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
73. Constitution Center
74. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
75. Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service
76. Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
77. Corporation for National and Community Service
78. Council of Economic Advisers
79. Council on Environmental Quality
80. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
81. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
82. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
83. Court of Federal Claims
84. Court of International Trade
85. Customs and Border Protection
86. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
87. Defense Commissary Agency
88. Defense Contract Audit Agency
89. Defense Contract Management Agency
90. Defense Department (DOD)
91. Defense Field Activities
92. Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS)
93. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
94. Defense Intelligence Agency
95. Defense Legal Services Agency
96. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)
97. Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
98. Defense Security Cooperation Agency
99. Defense Security Service
100. Defense Threat Reduction Agency
101. Delaware River Basin Commission
102. Denali Commission
103. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
104. Department of Commerce (DOC)
105. Department of Defense (DOD)
106. Department of Defense Inspector General
107. Department of Education (ED)
108. Department of Energy (DOE)
109. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
110. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
111. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
112. Department of the Interior (DOI)
113. Department of Justice (DOJ)
114. Department of Labor (DOL)
115. Department of State (DOS)
116. Department of Transportation (DOT)
117. Department of the Treasury
118. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
119. Disability Employment Policy Office
120. Domestic Policy Council
121. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
122. Economic Analysis, Bureau of
123. Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs (State Department)
124. Economic and Statistics Administration
125. Economic Development Administration
126. Economic Research Service
127. Education Department (ED)
128. Election Assistance Commission
129. Elementary and Secondary Education
130. Employee Benefits Security Administration (formerly the Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration)
131. Employment and Training Administration (Labor Department)
132. Employment Standards Administration
133. Endangered Species Committee
134. Energy Department (DOE)
135. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
136. Energy Information Administration
137. Enforcement (Treasury Department)
138. Engraving and Printing, Bureau of
139. Environment, Safety and Health
140. Environmental Management (Energy Department)
141. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
142. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
143. Executive Office for Immigration Review
144. Export Administration (now the Bureau of Industry and Security)
145. Export-Import Bank of the United States
146. Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
147. Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Office
148. Farm Credit Administration
149. Farm Service Agency
150. Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
151. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
152. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
153. Federal Bureau of Prisons
154. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
155. Federal Citizen Information Center (FCIC)
156. Federal Consulting Group
157. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
158. Federal Election Commission
159. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
160. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
161. Federal Executive Boards
162. Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
163. Federal Financing Bank
164. Federal Highway Administration
165. Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight
166. Federal Housing Finance Board
167. Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds
168. Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy
169. Federal Judicial Center
170. Federal Labor Relations Authority
171. Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer
172. Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
173. Federal Library and Information Center Committee
174. Federal Maritime Commission
175. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
176. Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
177. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
178. Federal Railroad Administration
179. Federal Reserve System
180. Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
181. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
182. Federal Transit Administration
183. Federated States of Micronesia
184. Financial Management Service (Treasury Department)
185. Fish and Wildlife Service
186. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
187. Food and Nutrition Service
188. Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services
189. Food Safety and Inspection Service
190. Foreign Agricultural Service
191. Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
192. Forest Service
193. Fossil Energy
194. Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
195. General Accounting Office (GAO)
196. General Services Administration (GSA)
197. Geological Survey (USGS)
198. Global Affairs (State Department)
199. Global Communications Office (White House)
200. Government Printing Office (GPO)
201. Government National Mortgage Association
202. Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
203. Guam
204. Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation
205. Health and Human Services Department (HHS)
206. Health Resources and Services Administration
207. Holocaust Memorial Museum
208. Homeland Security Department (DHS)
209. House of Representatives
210. House Leadership Offices
211. House Office of Inspector General
212. House Office of the Clerk
213. House of Representatives Committees
214. House Organizations, Commissions and Task Forces
215. House Representatives on the Web
216. Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD)
217. Housing
218. Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor Commission
219. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Bureau of
220. Immigration and Naturalization Service (Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services)
221. Indian Affairs, Bureau of
222. Indian Arts and Crafts Board
223. Indian Health Service
224. Industrial College of the Armed Forces
225. Industry and Security, Bureau of (formerly the Bureau of Export Administration)
226. Information Resource Management College
227. Institute of Education Sciences
228. Institute of Museum and Library Services
229. Institute of Peace
230. Interagency Alternative Dispute Resolution Working Group
231. Interagency Council on Homelessness
232. Interagency Electronic Grants Committee
233. Inter-American Foundation
234. Interior Department
235. Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
236. International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB)
237. International Labor Affairs, Bureau of
238. International Trade Administration (ITA)
239. James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation
240. Japan-United States Friendship Commission
241. John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
242. Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries
243. Joint Chiefs of Staff
244. Joint Forces Staff College
245. Judicial Circuit Courts of Appeal, by Geographic Location and Circuit
246. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
247. Justice Department
248. Justice Programs Office (Juvenile Justice, Victims of Crime, Violence Against Women and more)
249. Justice Statistics, Bureau of
250. Labor Department (DOL)
251. Labor Statistics, Bureau of
252. Land Management, Bureau of
253. Lead Hazard Control (Housing and Urban Development Department)
254. Legal Services Corporation
255. Library of Congress
256. Marine Mammal Commission
257. Maritime Administration
258. Marketing and Regulatory Programs (Agriculture Department)
259. Marshall Islands
260. Marshals Service
261. Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (formerly the Physician Payment Review
Commission and the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission)
262. Merit Systems Protection Board
263. Midway Islands
264. Migratory Bird Conservation Commission
265. Mine Safety and Health Administration
266. Mineral Management Service
267. Minority Business Development Agency
268. Mint
269. Missile Defense Agency
270. Mississippi River Commission
271. Morris K. Udall Foundation: Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy
272. Multifamily Housing Office
273. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
274. National Agricultural Statistics Service
275. National AIDS Policy Office
276. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
277. National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare
278. National Capital Planning Commission
279. National Cemetery Administration (Veterans Affairs Department)
280. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
281. National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9-11 Commission)
282. National Communications System (Homeland Security)
283. National Constitution Center
284. National Council on Disability
285. National Credit Union Administration
286. National Defense University
287. National Drug Intelligence Center
288. National Economic Council
289. National Endowment for the Arts
290. National Endowment for the Humanities
291. National Gallery of Art
292. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
293. National Imagery and Mapping Agency
294. National Indian Gaming Commission
295. National Institute of Justice
296. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
297. National Institutes of Health (NIH)
298. National Interagency Fire Center
299. National Labor Relations Board
300. National Laboratories (Energy Department)
301. National Marine Fisheries
302. National Mediation Board
303. National Nuclear Security Administration
304. National Ocean Service
305. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
306. National Park Foundation
307. National Park Service
308. National Railroad Passenger Corporation (AMTRAK)
309. National Reconnaissance Organization
310. National Science Foundation
311. National Security Agency/Central Security Service
312. National Security Council
313. National Technical Information Service
314. National Telecommunications and Information Administration
315. National Transportation Safety Board
316. National War College
317. National Weather Service
318. Natural Resources Conservation Service
319. Navajo and Hopi Relocation Commission
320. Northern Mariana Islands
321. Northwest Power Planning Council
322. Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology
323. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
324. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
325. Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
326. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
327. Office of Compliance
328. Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight
329. Office of Government Ethics
330. Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
331. Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)
332. Office of Personnel Management
333. Office of Science and Technology Policy
334. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
335. Office of Special Counsel
336. Office of Thrift Supervision
337. Overseas Private Investment Corporation
338. Pardon Attorney Office
339. Parole Commission (Justice Department)
340. Patent and Trademark Office
341. Peace Corps
342. Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (now the Employee Benefits Security
Administration)
343. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
344. Policy Development and Research (Housing and Urban Development Department)
345. Political Affairs (State Department)
346. Postal Rate Commission
347. Postal Service (USPS)
348. Postsecondary Education
349. Power Administrations
350. President's Commission on Moon, Mars and Beyond
351. President’s Commission on the U.S. Postal Service
352. President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency
353. President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
354. Presidio Trust
355. Public Debt, Bureau of
356. Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs (State Department)
357. Public Health Preparedness Office
358. Public and Indian Housing
359. Radio and TV Marti (Español)
360. Radio Free Asia (RFA)
361. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
362. Railroad Retirement Board
363. Reclamation, Bureau of
364. Regulatory Information Service Center
365. Rehabilitation Services Administration (Education Department)
366. Research, Education and Economics (Agriculture Department)
367. Research and Special Programs Administration (Transportation Department)
368. Risk Management Agency (Agriculture Department)
369. Rural Business-Cooperative Service
370. Rural Development
371. Rural Housing Service
372. Rural Utilities Service
373. Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
374. Science Office (Energy Department)
375. Secret Service
376. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
377. Selective Service System
378. Senate Committees
379. Senate Leadership
380. Senators on the Web
381. Small Business Administration (SBA)
382. Smithsonian Institution
383. Social Security Administration (SSA)
384. Social Security Advisory Board
385. Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
386. State Department
387. State Justice Institute
388. Stennis Center for Public Service
389. Student Financial Assistance Programs
390. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
391. Superfund Basic Research Program
392. Supreme Court of the United States
393. Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement
394. Surface Transportation Board
395. Susquehanna River Basin Commission
396. Tax Court
397. Taxpayer Advocacy Panel (TAP)
398. Technology Administration
399. Tennessee Valley Authority
400. Trade and Development Agency
401. Trade Policy Staff Committee (House of Representatives)
402. Transportation Department (DOT)
403. Transportation Security Administration
404. Transportation Statistics, Bureau of
405. Treasury Department
406. Trustee Program (Justice Department)
407. U.S. Border Patrol (now Customs and Border Protection)
408. U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission
409. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
410. U.S. Customs and Border Protection
411. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
412. U.S. International Trade Commission
413. U.S. Mission to the United Nations
414. U.S. National Central Bureau - Interpol (Justice Department)
415. U.S. Postal Service
416. U.S. Sentencing Commission
417. U.S. Trade Representative
418. U.S. Virgin Islands
419. Unified Combatant Commands (Defense Department)
420. Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
421. Veterans Affairs Department (VA)
422. Veterans Benefits Administration
423. Veterans Day National Committee
424. Veterans' Employment and Training Service
425. Veterans Health Administration
426. Vietnam Educational Foundation
427. Vocational and Adult Education
428. Voice of America (VOA)
429. White House Commission on Presidential Scholars
430. White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance
431. White House Office of Administration
432. Women's Bureau (Labor Department)
433. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
434. Worldnet Television
Our government workers are not accountable to you but the bureaucracy. Our Federal Government is about 20 times bigger than it need be. Every government agency ought to have board of the governed/affected overseeing it. Next, every government agency/program ought to expire every 10 years and require an act of Congress to reinstate.
When a business fails it goes out of business. When a government agency/program fails it gets more funding.
There should be a Constitutional Amendment that every agency created has a life of 10 years and needs a separate act of Congress to recreate that agency again at the end of every 10 year period if that agency is to continue with whatever it does.
Ninety percent of these could probably be eliminated.
1. Administration on Aging (AOA)
2. Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
3. Administrative Committee of the Federal Register
4. Administrative Office of the U.S. Court
5. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
6. African Development Foundation
7. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
8. Agency for International Development
9. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
10. Agricultural Marketing Service
11. Agricultural Research Service
12. Agriculture Department (USDA)
13. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (Treasury)
14. Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Bureau (DOJ)
15. American Battle Monuments Commission
16. American Samoa
17. AMTRAK (National Railroad Passenger Corporation)
18. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
19. Appalachian Regional Commission
20. Architect of the Capitol
21. Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board)
22. Arctic Research Commission
23. Armed Forces Retirement Home
24. Arms Control and International Security
25. Army Corps of Engineers
26. Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Interagency Coordinating Committee
27. Bankruptcy Courts
28. Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation
29. Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs Office
30. Botanic Garden
31. Broadcasting Board of Governors (Voice of America, Radio/TV Marti and more)
32. Bureau of Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade (Treasury)
33. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (Justice)
34. Bureau of the Census
35. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
36. Bureau of Engraving and Printing
37. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
38. Bureau of Industry and Security (formerly the Bureau of Export Administration)
39. Bureau of International Labor Affairs
40. Bureau of Justice Statistics
41. Bureau of Labor Statistics
42. Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
43. Bureau of Prisons
44. Bureau of Public Debt
45. Bureau of Reclamation
46. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
47. Census Bureau
48. Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
49. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
50. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (formerly the Health Care Financing Administration)
51. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
52. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigations Board
53. Chief Financial Officers Council
54. Chief Information Officers Council
55. Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee
56. Citizenship and Immigration Services Bureau (formerly Immigration and Naturalization Service)
57. Civilian Radioactive Waste Management
58. Coalition Provisional Authority (in Iraq)
59. Coalition Provisional Authority Inspector General
60. Commerce Department
61. Commission of Fine Arts
62. Commission on Civil Rights
63. Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
64. Commission on International Religious Freedom
65. Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements
66. Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
67. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
68. Community Development Office (Agriculture Department)
69. Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)
70. Community Planning and Development
71. Comptroller of the Currency Office
72. Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
73. Constitution Center
74. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
75. Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service
76. Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
77. Corporation for National and Community Service
78. Council of Economic Advisers
79. Council on Environmental Quality
80. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
81. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
82. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
83. Court of Federal Claims
84. Court of International Trade
85. Customs and Border Protection
86. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
87. Defense Commissary Agency
88. Defense Contract Audit Agency
89. Defense Contract Management Agency
90. Defense Department (DOD)
91. Defense Field Activities
92. Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS)
93. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
94. Defense Intelligence Agency
95. Defense Legal Services Agency
96. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)
97. Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
98. Defense Security Cooperation Agency
99. Defense Security Service
100. Defense Threat Reduction Agency
101. Delaware River Basin Commission
102. Denali Commission
103. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
104. Department of Commerce (DOC)
105. Department of Defense (DOD)
106. Department of Defense Inspector General
107. Department of Education (ED)
108. Department of Energy (DOE)
109. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
110. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
111. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
112. Department of the Interior (DOI)
113. Department of Justice (DOJ)
114. Department of Labor (DOL)
115. Department of State (DOS)
116. Department of Transportation (DOT)
117. Department of the Treasury
118. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
119. Disability Employment Policy Office
120. Domestic Policy Council
121. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
122. Economic Analysis, Bureau of
123. Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs (State Department)
124. Economic and Statistics Administration
125. Economic Development Administration
126. Economic Research Service
127. Education Department (ED)
128. Election Assistance Commission
129. Elementary and Secondary Education
130. Employee Benefits Security Administration (formerly the Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration)
131. Employment and Training Administration (Labor Department)
132. Employment Standards Administration
133. Endangered Species Committee
134. Energy Department (DOE)
135. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
136. Energy Information Administration
137. Enforcement (Treasury Department)
138. Engraving and Printing, Bureau of
139. Environment, Safety and Health
140. Environmental Management (Energy Department)
141. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
142. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
143. Executive Office for Immigration Review
144. Export Administration (now the Bureau of Industry and Security)
145. Export-Import Bank of the United States
146. Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
147. Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Office
148. Farm Credit Administration
149. Farm Service Agency
150. Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
151. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
152. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
153. Federal Bureau of Prisons
154. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
155. Federal Citizen Information Center (FCIC)
156. Federal Consulting Group
157. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
158. Federal Election Commission
159. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
160. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
161. Federal Executive Boards
162. Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
163. Federal Financing Bank
164. Federal Highway Administration
165. Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight
166. Federal Housing Finance Board
167. Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds
168. Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy
169. Federal Judicial Center
170. Federal Labor Relations Authority
171. Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer
172. Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
173. Federal Library and Information Center Committee
174. Federal Maritime Commission
175. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
176. Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
177. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
178. Federal Railroad Administration
179. Federal Reserve System
180. Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
181. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
182. Federal Transit Administration
183. Federated States of Micronesia
184. Financial Management Service (Treasury Department)
185. Fish and Wildlife Service
186. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
187. Food and Nutrition Service
188. Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services
189. Food Safety and Inspection Service
190. Foreign Agricultural Service
191. Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
192. Forest Service
193. Fossil Energy
194. Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
195. General Accounting Office (GAO)
196. General Services Administration (GSA)
197. Geological Survey (USGS)
198. Global Affairs (State Department)
199. Global Communications Office (White House)
200. Government Printing Office (GPO)
201. Government National Mortgage Association
202. Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
203. Guam
204. Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation
205. Health and Human Services Department (HHS)
206. Health Resources and Services Administration
207. Holocaust Memorial Museum
208. Homeland Security Department (DHS)
209. House of Representatives
210. House Leadership Offices
211. House Office of Inspector General
212. House Office of the Clerk
213. House of Representatives Committees
214. House Organizations, Commissions and Task Forces
215. House Representatives on the Web
216. Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD)
217. Housing
218. Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor Commission
219. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Bureau of
220. Immigration and Naturalization Service (Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services)
221. Indian Affairs, Bureau of
222. Indian Arts and Crafts Board
223. Indian Health Service
224. Industrial College of the Armed Forces
225. Industry and Security, Bureau of (formerly the Bureau of Export Administration)
226. Information Resource Management College
227. Institute of Education Sciences
228. Institute of Museum and Library Services
229. Institute of Peace
230. Interagency Alternative Dispute Resolution Working Group
231. Interagency Council on Homelessness
232. Interagency Electronic Grants Committee
233. Inter-American Foundation
234. Interior Department
235. Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
236. International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB)
237. International Labor Affairs, Bureau of
238. International Trade Administration (ITA)
239. James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation
240. Japan-United States Friendship Commission
241. John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
242. Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries
243. Joint Chiefs of Staff
244. Joint Forces Staff College
245. Judicial Circuit Courts of Appeal, by Geographic Location and Circuit
246. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
247. Justice Department
248. Justice Programs Office (Juvenile Justice, Victims of Crime, Violence Against Women and more)
249. Justice Statistics, Bureau of
250. Labor Department (DOL)
251. Labor Statistics, Bureau of
252. Land Management, Bureau of
253. Lead Hazard Control (Housing and Urban Development Department)
254. Legal Services Corporation
255. Library of Congress
256. Marine Mammal Commission
257. Maritime Administration
258. Marketing and Regulatory Programs (Agriculture Department)
259. Marshall Islands
260. Marshals Service
261. Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (formerly the Physician Payment Review
Commission and the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission)
262. Merit Systems Protection Board
263. Midway Islands
264. Migratory Bird Conservation Commission
265. Mine Safety and Health Administration
266. Mineral Management Service
267. Minority Business Development Agency
268. Mint
269. Missile Defense Agency
270. Mississippi River Commission
271. Morris K. Udall Foundation: Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy
272. Multifamily Housing Office
273. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
274. National Agricultural Statistics Service
275. National AIDS Policy Office
276. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
277. National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare
278. National Capital Planning Commission
279. National Cemetery Administration (Veterans Affairs Department)
280. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
281. National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9-11 Commission)
282. National Communications System (Homeland Security)
283. National Constitution Center
284. National Council on Disability
285. National Credit Union Administration
286. National Defense University
287. National Drug Intelligence Center
288. National Economic Council
289. National Endowment for the Arts
290. National Endowment for the Humanities
291. National Gallery of Art
292. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
293. National Imagery and Mapping Agency
294. National Indian Gaming Commission
295. National Institute of Justice
296. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
297. National Institutes of Health (NIH)
298. National Interagency Fire Center
299. National Labor Relations Board
300. National Laboratories (Energy Department)
301. National Marine Fisheries
302. National Mediation Board
303. National Nuclear Security Administration
304. National Ocean Service
305. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
306. National Park Foundation
307. National Park Service
308. National Railroad Passenger Corporation (AMTRAK)
309. National Reconnaissance Organization
310. National Science Foundation
311. National Security Agency/Central Security Service
312. National Security Council
313. National Technical Information Service
314. National Telecommunications and Information Administration
315. National Transportation Safety Board
316. National War College
317. National Weather Service
318. Natural Resources Conservation Service
319. Navajo and Hopi Relocation Commission
320. Northern Mariana Islands
321. Northwest Power Planning Council
322. Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology
323. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
324. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
325. Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
326. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
327. Office of Compliance
328. Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight
329. Office of Government Ethics
330. Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
331. Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)
332. Office of Personnel Management
333. Office of Science and Technology Policy
334. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
335. Office of Special Counsel
336. Office of Thrift Supervision
337. Overseas Private Investment Corporation
338. Pardon Attorney Office
339. Parole Commission (Justice Department)
340. Patent and Trademark Office
341. Peace Corps
342. Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (now the Employee Benefits Security
Administration)
343. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
344. Policy Development and Research (Housing and Urban Development Department)
345. Political Affairs (State Department)
346. Postal Rate Commission
347. Postal Service (USPS)
348. Postsecondary Education
349. Power Administrations
350. President's Commission on Moon, Mars and Beyond
351. President’s Commission on the U.S. Postal Service
352. President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency
353. President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
354. Presidio Trust
355. Public Debt, Bureau of
356. Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs (State Department)
357. Public Health Preparedness Office
358. Public and Indian Housing
359. Radio and TV Marti (Español)
360. Radio Free Asia (RFA)
361. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
362. Railroad Retirement Board
363. Reclamation, Bureau of
364. Regulatory Information Service Center
365. Rehabilitation Services Administration (Education Department)
366. Research, Education and Economics (Agriculture Department)
367. Research and Special Programs Administration (Transportation Department)
368. Risk Management Agency (Agriculture Department)
369. Rural Business-Cooperative Service
370. Rural Development
371. Rural Housing Service
372. Rural Utilities Service
373. Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
374. Science Office (Energy Department)
375. Secret Service
376. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
377. Selective Service System
378. Senate Committees
379. Senate Leadership
380. Senators on the Web
381. Small Business Administration (SBA)
382. Smithsonian Institution
383. Social Security Administration (SSA)
384. Social Security Advisory Board
385. Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
386. State Department
387. State Justice Institute
388. Stennis Center for Public Service
389. Student Financial Assistance Programs
390. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
391. Superfund Basic Research Program
392. Supreme Court of the United States
393. Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement
394. Surface Transportation Board
395. Susquehanna River Basin Commission
396. Tax Court
397. Taxpayer Advocacy Panel (TAP)
398. Technology Administration
399. Tennessee Valley Authority
400. Trade and Development Agency
401. Trade Policy Staff Committee (House of Representatives)
402. Transportation Department (DOT)
403. Transportation Security Administration
404. Transportation Statistics, Bureau of
405. Treasury Department
406. Trustee Program (Justice Department)
407. U.S. Border Patrol (now Customs and Border Protection)
408. U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission
409. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
410. U.S. Customs and Border Protection
411. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
412. U.S. International Trade Commission
413. U.S. Mission to the United Nations
414. U.S. National Central Bureau - Interpol (Justice Department)
415. U.S. Postal Service
416. U.S. Sentencing Commission
417. U.S. Trade Representative
418. U.S. Virgin Islands
419. Unified Combatant Commands (Defense Department)
420. Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
421. Veterans Affairs Department (VA)
422. Veterans Benefits Administration
423. Veterans Day National Committee
424. Veterans' Employment and Training Service
425. Veterans Health Administration
426. Vietnam Educational Foundation
427. Vocational and Adult Education
428. Voice of America (VOA)
429. White House Commission on Presidential Scholars
430. White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance
431. White House Office of Administration
432. Women's Bureau (Labor Department)
433. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
434. Worldnet Television
Our government workers are not accountable to you but the bureaucracy. Our Federal Government is about 20 times bigger than it need be. Every government agency ought to have board of the governed/affected overseeing it. Next, every government agency/program ought to expire every 10 years and require an act of Congress to reinstate.
When a business fails it goes out of business. When a government agency/program fails it gets more funding.
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