Mark
To simply pulling the on plug these agencies, you say:
“It would be like an emergency room doctor just yanking on a pole that was embedded in an accident victims’ chest”
This is the wrong analogy.
The government is bleeding us to death…bright red, spurting, arterial blood shooting from the Obama wound. “Just pulling the plug” on these agencies RIGHT NOW, is the equivelent of immediate DIRECT PRESSURE on this otherwise fatal wound.
The first, immediate, and ONLY thing to do in order to save this patient, right this second.
Stop the bleeding, NOW…worry about infection, nerve damage, and ruined clothes LATER.
It can be done with “no harm to the country” as these agemcies serve no one IN the country besides themselves. They are interconnected with themselves, refer to themselves, communicate with themselves, rate, recommend, authorize, oversee, report and administer TO THEMSELVES. Can you name a single PRIVATE SECTOR WORKER that would be negatively affected by the closure of these redundant political agencies? These B.S. “outreach” and “advisory” groups that feed at the trough?
The majority of that list is fluff and nonsense…government agencies that provide nothing but imaginary make-work jobs to people completely isolated from the population at large.
Ripple effects? Sure… a lot of unemployed office workers suddenly not buying lunch. Or shopping at the mall. Starbucks and The Gap may see a hickup, Office Max might feel a pinch.
But again SO WHAT? When has any OTHER industry that went belly up concerned the economy at large? 3 to 5 thousand pink slips at major corporations is the norm at times. Steel workers, accountants, I.T. people have been laid off in large numbers before, and we didnt collapse.
So WHAT if a 5000 person Federal Agency is closed tomorrow, and another a week later, followed by a 3rd next month…
Its called “reality”, and it wont hurt us a bit.
