Ron Paul wants to get rid of the Dept of Homeland Security, IRS, Dept. Of Education are there risks to this, I see the good points that he points out and kinda favor him in the race for 08 but tell me what risks we take by getting rid of these?
2007-11-05 03:48:49 · 5 answers · asked by bao187 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Take away the Dept of Education and you lose the benefit of standardization and national strategy in education. Thus we risk becoming less competitive globally. This department does need major reform however.
Name one 1st world nation that does not have a national education strategy...
As for the Dept of Homeland Security, that is GW's invention and has become extremely politicized in a very short amount of time. We don't need it and never did. The security of our homeland was taken care of before 9-11 by other departments. The reasons this department was created are dubious at best. A single cabinet post and some rule changes could replace it easily.
Conservatives growing government.
2007-11-05 03:55:06 · answer #1 · answered by captain_koyk 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Wow, how many people have dreamed of getting rid of the IRS?
If we dispose of the Dept of Homeland security, then we are going backwards to the times before the attacks of 9-11. We have to accept the fact that the world changed on that day. And our Homeland Security is part of the answer to international terrorism.
The IRS could disappear but someone still has to collect the nations taxes...Who and how?
And the Department of Education cannot go away But it sure does need to be fixed, We now test children in 12th grade at a 9th grade level to see if they should graduate at a 12th grade level? DUH.
2007-11-05 11:58:47 · answer #2 · answered by SFC_Ollie 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree with Ron that some federal agencies are probably extraneous and have more cons than pros...
...But I question the ability for the simple civil maintenance of American infrastructure and mobility to be done without some of these agencies.
The Dept of Transportation ? DoD ? DoJ ? Cmon ! These are critical components of running this country.
2007-11-05 11:55:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
What has Ron Paul ever accomplished?
He cannot run a grocery store, much less the Executive Branch.
2007-11-05 12:06:06 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The less centralized our government, the better. The more centralized our government, the greater chance that we can be ruled by a small Zionist elite that is hellbent on destroying our Republic and our freedoms.
2007-11-05 12:03:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋