<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">The US really does have a proliferation of agencies which compete. For example: CIA, FBI, NSA, etc. I think it would be cheaper to combine them somehow, so they could pool resources and intelligence. It doesn’t seem to me that this type of redundancy is useful.<div><br></div><div>As far as agencies being merged... well, Trump is floating a merger of Department of Education and Department of Labor, into, I’m not sure, maybe a Department of Education, Training, & Employment. Not sure if I agree with the move because his motives seem suspect, but we’ll see how it plays out.</div><div><br></div><div>But another thing to consider is maybe we actually need more agencies/ departments. Which sounds insane, I know, but hear me out. Look at all the agencies and departments involved with the US Immigration system. They are absolutely inefficient and make the whole system insufferably complicated, because “one hand doesn’t know that the other hand is doing”. And that makes accountability hard, because they can all just point fingers at each other. </div><div><br></div><div>The entire US government is way too bloated and redundant in all the wrong ways. It’s definitely “too big” in the sense that it could do more with less. Maybe we need to go through with the pain and expense of reorganizing and streamlining the whole thing.<br><div><br>On Jun 23, 2018, at 11:11, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 11:05 AM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 6:33 PM, </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_5980915407792638818gmail-m_4783008876598277514WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(91,91,91)"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div></span> <i>Does the United States need a Space Force branch of the military?</i></blockquote><div> </div></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">How many intelligence agencies do we have? Way too many, because they compete with each other, withholding information, just like the military ones do. How many agencies get involved with a disaster, like FEMA? Several, and yes, they do compete.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Proliferation of agencies (when was the last time you heard of one being merged or just closed?) is a very poor thing, it seems to me. Another variety of pork.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">bill w</div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><font size="4"><br></font></div>
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