Posted on 01/13/2012 6:14:08 AM PST by DJ MacWoW
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama will ask Congress on Friday for greater power to shrink the federal government, and his first idea is merging six sprawling trade and commerce agencies whose overlapping programs can be baffling to businesses, a senior administration official told The Associated Press.
Obama will call on Congress to give him a type of reorganizational power last held by a president when Ronald Reagan was in office. The Obama version would be a so-called consolidation authority allowing him to propose mergers that promise to save money and help consumers. The deal would entitle him to an up-or-down vote from Congress in 90 days.
It would be up to lawmakers, therefore, to first grant Obama this fast-track authority and then decide whether to approve any of his specific ideas.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...
Just eliminate the duplicative Agencies, eliminate the EPA, DOE, and DHS for starters, and we'll save BILLIONS immediately, plus have the BONUS of being able to let private sector businesses expand and hire.
This B.S. about The Messiah coming up with a savings is simply cover for handing out more Union favoitism, more Dictatorship authorization, and more useless Government oversight.
But; look at the bright side: we can have Romney-the-RINO in November, to do the SAME things as The Messiah!
Mike
Tell him heck no, we’ll let our Republican President do it in January 2013.
It’s not that he doesn’t have the power to abolish these useless agencies, it’s that he wants a big brother agency.
If he is serious, he can start by abolishing half his cabinet and their agencies.
Isn’t that the truth!
This is a way to centralize government and give the executive more authority than the Constitution allows.
First up? House and Senate will no longer be needed. Dept Of Presidential Everything (D.O.P.E) will take it’s place.
No.
Hell NO.
It’s like saying that if you Combine all 5 Voltron lions, the giant robot you’ve created is actually taking up less floor space!
Great analogy!!
Sounds about right.
0bambi gets the message from Greece....
In Greece you need to show a current tax receipt/payment in order to have a car license plate....
Greeks are turning in their license plates to the tax collector and not paying their tax....
Those that don't have cars turn in their children,,,,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085163/Children-dumped-streets-Greek-parents-afford-them.html
so look to see the IRS and 0bamacare merge.
Prayers for abandoned Greek children.
That’s despicable. And Obama’s right on it. Nothing is too low for the marxist.
Exactly. It will concentrate and fortify the power of the central government.
“This is a way to centralize government and give the executive more authority than the Constitution allows.”
It COULD be. With Obama...it probably will be.
Correct.
It is TIME to DownSize DC! BUT that means “eliminating” entire departments, not making bigger less efficient and less accountable monsters.
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