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I used to work construction. Sometimes to fix things it's best to just knock everything down and start all over again.
If you knock down the over-built, collapsing-under-its-own-weight structure, you need to know what you're replacing it with.
Just saying you're going to fix it isn't good enough. Someone needs to evaluate what the best replacement will look like.
Sometimes it's better to leave it as a vacant lot to eliminate the chance the next occupants decide to start nailing on more additions.
For every agency in the federal government, I'll guarantee you'll find 2 things:
1. There is at a minimum one other agency whose authorities and actions overlap with them (and possibly with others, too) -- usually a result of "mission creep"; and
2. There are limits on agency A's authority which only agency B is authorized to do. For example, the Dept of Education can't verify the social security of a student loan application because only the Social Security Administration has those records. Asking the SSA to verify if the name and number on the application match fails because the SSA won't give out private information. Agencies protecting their rice bowls FORCE other agencies to create overlapping processes and authorities just because they are legally restricted from sharing information agency-to-agency.
Also, these agencies' budgets have programmed increases every single year regardless of their need for the funding. It's like your grandfather's will left you $10M, but it must be used annually in $50,000 chunks for the exclusive purpose of improving your primary residence.
How much would you be adding to your house every year if the money was there for the taking? Also, how much would you spend if the will also stipulated that if you must spend the entire $50K each year? If you only spent $30K this year, for instance, all subsequent years' allocations would be capped at $30K.
That's the culture that is the federal government. Power is, in part, based on the amount of funding they control, and the increase in power year after year is contingent on using all the funding allocated. There's no incentive to save the tax payers money. In fact, you are punished for doing so by having your future budgets cut.
I'm not in the "burn it all down" camp. I'm in the "let's fix the real problem" camp. -- that being a bloated administration running on auto-pilot with nobody willing to flip that switch "off" for fear of how many passengers will come after them for rocking the boat, or for the self-centered reasons that means guarding their own piece of the pie.