You sound like you know as much about the DOE as Rick Perry did when he became Energy Secretary. There's a nice article by Michael Lewis from '17 about that--it both illustrates the know-nothing incompetence of Republicans with an attitude like yours, and it'll enlighten you about a little bit of what DOE does. Your utter and willful ignorance may make you feel good about your unsupported BS attacks, but it doesn't seem quite so awesome to the rest of us.
(The caveat: I did not anywhere say that I think the govt. does a perfect job, there's no waste, no plans and policies that are suboptimal. I'm saying your blanket dismissal of entire departments is ignorant and foolish.)
Some totally need to walk the plank, all certainly need a full accountability audit. The problem is that these parasitic entities are protected against such deep accountability. Congress is in on the game, and their oversight is a joke, R or D, it doesn't matter.
You love the whattaboutism, choosing sides "your side sucks more than mine!!". "This R did that!! That R sucks too!!" You will have to get beyond that 2D world to see the actual overall suckage of these modern
unsustainable institutions, and serious suckage elsewhere. You will find some examples of "The real attack on Democracy".
ED, I know it's low-hanging fruit, but that department as a whole is an absolute failure! I won't even look for the budget, because I am watching my blood pressure lately. . . ah fudge, had to look- it is $79.6 BULLION for 2023 (breathe 4, hold 4, exhale 4, hold 4, rinse/repeat, etc.) We are not resulting in highly educated US yoots with all that $79,600,000,000 birdfeeding bureaucrats and crap school districts who follow ED regulations to get their piece. And they STILL need more money "for the children!!" ED has presided over the dumbing-down of education for decades. Do I really have to pull stats regarding high school grads who cannot do simple algebra? Conjugate, I mean define a verb? Quote any historical figure? Come-on, man! We have to import smart technical people from other countries? Why? Are our yoots only able to clean the trash and wash the floors at tech companies? Track the overall decline in education to the creation of this totalitarian department. This department has only served to expand itself and reduce the educational outcomes of those it is supposed to serve.
HHS, really?!? Do I have to list the many ways most of us do not trust HHS to provide for our health? And in what kinds of "research" do the multitudes of alphabet parasite agencies engage internationally that serve to corrupt our health, and that of all humanity?
DOD, Defense, really? REALLY?!? The US "intel community" is the top rotten scourge of the globe, not only the US. They are living in the 1960's and are working only to keep theirs. They are not "defending" anything but themselves and their corrupt enablers in DC.
"The real attack on Democracy". . .
DOJ is the department of injustice, or the enforcement arm of the dnc. They have been running cover for the cragghead son of a career politician for over a decade. No one here, R or D, would get the sweetheart tax evasion/gun crime settlement, like NOTHING, that that guy almost got. Slow-walking investigations looking at the statute of limitations clock for some, no due process for others. . . Absolute injustice!
Ignorant? Foolish? I know I'm not. I pray that you will see it some day. You are being taken to the cleaners, even if you are now a "net receiver" from the system, don't you realize that?
Mike
