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NASA
This agency has presided over too many disasters - lost satellites, exploding space shuttles. It's sunk billions of dollars into the space station white elephant - which really has no purpose. It needs to be reduced to dealing with only national security satellites, etc. Private enterprise should take over commercial satellite launches, and the those of scientific satellites such as from the NSF, NOAA..
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Good - we'll use that to excuse management blunders, WPA projects for engineers like the space station white elephant, and inexcusable mistakes like when a mars lander crashed because mission control was using the english system and the software people the metric system.
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Can you come up with a private program that has done more to advance technology and knowledge of the universe than NASA? Is GM gonna get your grandkids' butts off this planet when the contribution of your SUV fumes have finally made our atmosphere a total joke? There is no suitable alternative to NASA at this time. Your beloved Fox News wouldn't have satellites to help it along if not for NASA and your cell phone would be lousy and we wouldn't even have all those missles you love so much.
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I'm not interested in forming a private company. Are you? If so YOU put it together and YOU come up with the financing, instead of taking the tax money of waitresses and factory workers and janitors and using it for these engineer ego trip spectacular space farces.
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Dept of Education
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This department had decades to improve the education of american students, and has utterly failed. Education should at most be a state issue. Close it.
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Be serious, Jake. You simply do not care about education. It's obvious by your "state issue at most" comment. We do not elect people with such disdain for the very existence of an education system. So it's pointless to even complain.
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Equivalencing the Dept. of education with education itself puts you at the zero level of issue grasp.
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CIA
Organized as an extension of the WWII era OSS, this cold war era anachronism has been wrong over and over - it should be replaced with a completely new intelligence organization designed around the threats of the 21st century..
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They're workin' on it. Which is a bigger waste? Reorganizing the system we have or tashing it all to build a new one. Besides, the whole "rogue state doctrine" was designed to look exactly like the Cold War.
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The personnel, organization, methods EVERYTHING have to be revamped. Like putting a patch on a pair of pants with 50 patches already - what's needed is a completely new organization.
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USSC
The USSC has evolved over 200 years as america's monarch - but unlike the UK, with real, unanswerable power. Consider what a king is: he rules for life, he's not democratically elected, and he has ultimate power - just like the USSC. This court should be changed so that the members serve for say ten years, not till they're drooling and alzheimic. Their decisions should be able to be overridden by congress - say with a 75% supermajority. All their trappings of demigodhood - the USSC "temple" building, their religious-like robes, should be prohibited by law.
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The point of the Court is to be a check on the people themselves, a check against mob rule and the corruption in electoral politics. True, it's flawed... but do you have a better system for this necessary check and balance? I certainly don't.
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I just told you what it is. And you've got a bizarre notion of their role - they are supposed to apply the constitution, not their ideology, to the cases that come before it.