Everyone wants to make the government smaller, and cut taxes.
What agencies, departments, or programs do you think would be likely candidates to be eliminated?
2006-12-02 14:12:44 · 9 answers · asked by bettysdad 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
The states need to become much less dependent on the Feds for money. All pork barrel programs should be eliminated, i.e., studies to show if a rolling stone gathers moss or not (yes, there are asinine gov't funded projects like that out there!); the gov't should really NEGOTIATE contracts and not just award them to their friends (remember those $150 hammers a few years back?) Entitlement programs need to be revamped so only those in genuine need receive them...temporarily....so welfare isn't a way of life. The gov't needs to quit paying all of their employees for every b.s. holiday no one else in the real world gets a paid day off for (raise your hand if you stayed home last "Martin Luther King" or "Presidents'" Day), and they need to have qualified financial analysts and CPAs prepare the budget...overages unacceptable. The aforementioned would be a good STARTING point, me thinks.
2006-12-02 15:06:19 · answer #1 · answered by fearslady 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make it a law that any increases in spending over the previous year have to be approved by a 3/4 vote of both houses of Congress. Give the president a line-item veto to be able to cut pork barrel projects out of a spending bill. Get rid of the department of education and the department of energy.
2006-12-02 14:16:42 · answer #2 · answered by Stretchy McSlapNuts 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only answer to shrinking government is electing conservatives. Not the Republican party of the past term, but consservatives who are true to the foundation of their plat form.
Sorry. I tried to type the above alot, biut Ihav ebeen drinking alot since USC lost. Go Big Blue.
2006-12-02 14:56:05 · answer #3 · answered by Time to Shrug, Atlas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To my way of thinking the first best step to reducing the Federal Government is to make Congressman and Senators beholding to their home states for their compensation. That's right...let this folks get paid by the states they represent. No more midnight increases for themselves. And no more Federal Pension Plans and cushy retirements. If you are a Senator from Iowa or Missouri then you are a state employee representing your state in Washington.
Truly, state and local governments need to be much more of an influence in our daily lives than the every growing Federal Government.
It won't solve all of our ills...but I think it would good start to remind our representatives who they actually represent.
2006-12-02 14:51:34 · answer #4 · answered by KERMIT M 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
you don't, governments take power they never actually relinquish it, the only way is the way it's always happened, eventually the government gets so bloated, inefficient and corrupt that the proles revolt, form a new government and the process starts all over again
any changes that a government makes for downsizing are illusory
2006-12-02 15:01:41 · answer #5 · answered by Nick F 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well actually we the people are the govwernment those who are in office are there because we said they would make a good rep for us . so if you want to shrink the government i guess you would have to kick some of us out of the country
2006-12-02 14:21:51 · answer #6 · answered by cozjeanda 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get rid of the PA and MCA.
2006-12-02 15:00:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wash it in hot water!
2006-12-02 14:20:50 · answer #8 · answered by purplepartygirrl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
firehose ,rat poison and intelligent reform
2006-12-02 14:35:26 · answer #9 · answered by Paul I 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋