My Political Downsizing Dream Team

 

downsizing-govScott Walker, President (I want him to use his proven mettle to dismantle the administrative state over his eight years).

Rand Paul or Bobby Jindal, Vice President (I want them to take turns being president the following 16 years).

Ted Cruz, next Supreme Court Justice.

Ted Cruz (he’s smart, he can do two jobs) as Head of Department of State (80 percent of the offices and sub-agencies will be terminated).

Allen West to the Department of Defense (or maybe Ted Cruz can do it too).

Ben Carson heads the Department of Veterans Affairs (to do surgery on the agency and get it reorganized).

Trey Gowdy to the newly independent FBI. All other federal investigative agencies consolidated inside the FBI. Refocus the enlarged agency to investigate past and present political crimes in the federal government. (Remember? That’s why its called Federal Bureau of Investigation.) If he won’t do it, let Andrew Napolitano.

Carly Fiorina heads the Department of the Treasury (and 95 percent of the offices and sub-agencies, including the IRS, will be terminated).

Donald Trump heads the new Department of Immigration (consisting of formerly dispersed agencies of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, United States Customs and Border Protection, Office of Border Patrol, U.S. Border Patrol, United States Coast Guard, Office of Field Operations, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement). Relocate the agency to a new high rise (with casino) on Ellis Island. The casino functions to determine winning applicants.

Edward Snowden to head the new Department of National Cyber Security to protect the US from foreign entities (NSA to be disbanded and reduced functions to be moved to this agency).

Other agencies to be closed: Internal Revenue Service, Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department of Education, Department of Energy, Department of Justice (FBI made an independent agency). The rogue Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms will be disbanded and its headquarters filled with tobacco as tinder, doused with alcohol, and then set ablaze with an AK17 repurchased from Mexico; Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security (all sub-agencies closed except TSA’ real responsibilities, which will be privatized; and Immigration, Border Patrol, and United States Coast Guard, which will be moved to new Department of Immigration), Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of the Interior (National Parks to be granted back to respective states, farmland back to Cliven Bundy, and USGS privatized), Department of Labor, Department of Transportation (highways to be granted back to respective states. FAA to be privatized). If there was anything useful done by these agencies, the free market would have it up and running in a few months.

Also, all “independent agencies” and government-owned corporations will be privatized or terminated, including: Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Endowment for the Arts, NASA (parts of which go to Dept. of Defense), EPA, Export-Import Bank, United States Postal Service, Social Security Administration, Federal Reserve, and Amtrak. CIA is reduced and made a sub-agency in Department of Defense.

Terminating all those agencies will affect past legislation. So next, all federal laws to be repealed during the first term, and Congress will review and restore useful laws — one at a time. Laws will be limited to 50 pages and cite the enabling clause from the constitution. All laws must be individually reauthorized every 10 years.

That that will keep politicians busy and out of mischief.

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    John Penfold: Cut, cut deeply, cut widely.

    YES!

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    Max Ledoux: He committed treason and condemned many people to die at the hands of our enemies.

    I had not heard of anyone dying due to his information release. Do you have a link? Thanks.

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