This is, I believe, the all time greatest column. i've adjusted it for inflation but the conclusions are indeed timeless. Indianasmith and some others don't like this type of thing and it of course has no place in a badmovies forum but I don't care!! I'm too much of a snob to attend the FOX engineered tea parties so this is my contribution to all taht
Bulldoze the Beltway!!this chart shows the department, what it doesn't do, and how much we'd save by getting rid of it
Agriculture Grows no crops. $19 billion
Commerce Neither makes nor sells merchandise. $6 billion
Education
Know anyone educated by the Department of Education? $34 billion
Energy
Jimmy Carter’s idea—need I say more?
$17 billion
HHS Dump the FDA, our most lethal agency. Whatever
else HHS does, it’s bad. $54 billion
HUD Inventor of "the projects"; destroyer of cities.
$37 billion
Interior An independent nation larger than France. $9 billion
Labor Engages in no actual labor. $12 billion
Transportation Capitol of pork. (Keep the Coast Guard.) $48 billion
Corps of Eng Causes floods. See FEMA.
$4 billion
FEMA This agency’s a disaster (in dealing with the floods caused
by the Corps of Engineers).
$3 billion
EPA If you want an important job done badly,
give it to a federal bureaucracy. $7 billion
Foreign Aid Retirement fund for corrupt dictators/ bribing
Egypt and Israel to pretend to like each other.
$11 billion
NASA Challenger. Need I say more? $14 billion
SBA They only waste a billion dollars each year,
but they waste it magnificently. $1 billion