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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Under the GOP, it's clear the House Republicans are far more interested in performative bullshit and partisan witch hunts than they actually are about keeping the government running and functional.

It's a huge disgrace.  I honestly can't understand how anyone in their right mind can vote Republican anymore.[/quote]

Our govt isn't functional.  Hasn't been for years.  Where have you been?[/quote]
Let me help you. REPUBLICANS have kept the govt from functioning. They put up ridiculous bills that they know they will not pass, they purposely hurt our National Security (looking at you Tommy T), and shut down govt if they don’t get their way. Don’t blame Democrats. You may not like their policies, but they are in government to enact legislation.[/quote]

I don't like their policies and their lack of agility. I don't like that federal service has become a jobs program and that's there's a ridiculous number of layers of management in federal bureaucracies.  I don't like the fact that we're paying more than ever for .gov and getting less.

I don't like that they screw up everything they touch and they've become an income transfer scheme for the progressive left.  Your answer to everything is to throw more money at it.

My answer is to cut it severely and get rid of whole layers of management in government (AKA, the rubber-stamp brigade) and bring back the agility for it to be effective again.

Government - If you think the problems we create are bad, just wait until you see our solution.[/quote]

You don't seem to understand how government works these days.  In the headquarters office of many agencies, a lot of major national programs are only one or two feds deep, the rest has been forced to be outsourced to costly private sector contracts via numerous drivers.  As such, even a "middle manager" with only a dozen subordinates might still be responsible for a half dozen national programs in his agency.  And no, it's not a "rubber stamp brigade" as in many agencies, every single thing being done in an agency program needs prioritization and justification and many mandates handed down to agencies by Congress are in fact unfunded so they constantly have to rob Peter to pay Paul.

And no, it's not an "income transfer scheme to the progressive left" given the lion's share of the money is going out in contracts mostly to big defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, L3Harris etc - NOT the "liberal left."   One area where there is too much rubberstamping is in contracting - A-76 cost benefit analysis has become a joke, essentially with very few exceptions everything gets rubberstamped to be pushed out to contracts.  There is a lot of work that would be cheaper, more efficient and more effective if it were done in-house.  Not to mention, having enough federal subject matter experts to prevent the government from being bamboozled by savvy contractors.  There is also far too little efficiency and accountability in contracting, particularly on the DoD/IC side.  Many of those contractors are more interested in how many asses they can put in seats and how much profit they can milk out of the task, instead of actually completing the task, solving the problem and moving on to the next one.

Huge chunks of money in civilian agency budgets also goes out to states as well.  Cutting budgets to civilian agencies will hurt states.  We already know what your naive, blunt-weapon "solutions" are, and they completely suck.  How about learning more about what's really going on than making dumb statements about how you're going to just gut civilian agencies and their budgets, without actually even bothering to understand what the ramifications are, let alone understanding everything that Congress has mandated?  Your "solutions" are dumb things like "get rid of the IRS and EPA and and and" which would be complete disaster.[/quote]

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