you must remember that the many bureaucracies of the US government have been steadily hiring either employees with a liberal bent or those who care less and accept anything. We have reached the point where any appointed Republican head of any department will face resistance, slow-walking and sometimes outright sabotage of any conservative directives. They have also become hugely over-populated and the numbers must be reduced. A freeze on hiring will help. But once Republicans take control of the House and maintain the other two branches, some unnecessary departments need to be abolished. We can all name some. I would start with Education, a Jimmy Carter brainstorm.
Since the beginning of the Department of Education the quality of education has steadily fallen - it’s a a quantified fact, a matter of record. Education is properly a function of the individual states, local districts.
It is imperative to win back the house and any conservative who fails to vote because of one issue or another should be flushed down the toilet!!!
“They have also become hugely over-populated and the numbers must be reduced.”
The first personal computers began appearing in US companies about 1980. Over the next 30 years a technological revolution in information processing occurred which allowed corporations to dramatically increase the productivity of administrative and management positions. Corporations shed non-manufacturing employees as they grew.
Government at all levels (federal, state and local) continued to grow bureaucracies even as computers made their way into government offices. Not only did government not realize the productivity savings, many governments hired outside “consultants” at high salaries to further pad bloated staffs and perform jobs the inept government bureaucrats could not accomplish.
The federal government needs to go through a dramatic downsizing. First step is to dramatically reduce its mission by returning functions it has coopted from the states to state and local government. Second, the headcount of remaining departments should be dramatically downsized (15-20%) as the department heads are charged with doing fewer things well instead of many things poorly.