The federal agencies are failures compared to what ?

BTW I attempt to succeed but I also happen to fail @ 50% or there abouts of the things I do ... its called stretching the limits of your mind and circumstances and in some cases physics.

Remember Apollo 13 ... failed ... ergo by extension nasa is a failure ...

Sorry some agencies have tasks that are so vast, complex and vague that its near impossible to categorize their effectiveness ... let alone call them success or failure.

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Srinath.

WebsterMark wrote on 08/27/12 at 11:14:54:


43 working and foreign born conservative here (to quote winston churchill, if you're under 30 and not liberal you have no heart, if you're over 40 and not conservative you have no brains ... and around 32-33 I began to be conservative right about when I bought my first house) yes that is true conservative ... fiscal conservative not just in name ...

Mitt isn't conservative ... Mitt is a true example of a socialist. The rich need their losses socialised, and they have privatized the profits. Mitt is their horse to ride into that utopia.

A conservative uses just what he needs at jus tthe right time ... today with effective interest being negative, a conservative borrows and spends. Bush expanded the govt and Obama continued it. Bush did so by going to war against 2 countries under semi legal pretenses, and borroed to pay for it. Except during that time effective interest rate was close to 3-4%. Obama expanded govt mainly by being forced to do so via a bad economy and an againg population, and he has borrowed to do so, but at an interest rate which has on average been 0-2% negative. Its better now to borrow, cos we aint paying interest. If it starts to get to where the interest is high and rising, I would be all for printing it and handing it over to our debtors.

I aint no gun toting, bible thumping, abortion banning, rape re-defining right wing nut. I am conservative in the true sense of the word. Cut down waste, but dont just cut down govt. Only the govt can build roads, bridges, provide a safety net for the old and poor, run a space program and a defense program the size we run. So back off and let them do it. There are countries where the transportation system (buses, trains and planes) are run by the govt, and to extremely good effects.

Efficient govt is a myth ... a larger govt is inherently more efficient cos bureaucracy is a dead cost ... like govt buildings and furniture and what not all needs to be put in before a single road contract is approved ... its cheaper to approve lots of contracts at that same location.

Every single successful "shrink the size of govt" in fact romney doesn't even say that any more - he says "shrink the size of the federal govt" effectively gets the states to do and pay for what the federal govt does. sadly the state govt cant print $, no one wants to buy bomds from some states and effectively makes a smaller govt do what a bigger govt can do more efficiently.

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Srinath.