Can the US government do anything right?

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Is there a single branch of the US government that can do something right?

- The IRS (Internal Revenue Service) has dropped audits in half each year since the 1980's (so we know tax fraud's going on)
- The INS (Immigration & Naturalisation Service) simply can not do their job to any extent, be it tracking down illegals or stopping them from crossing the border.
- The USDA (US Departmen of Agriculture) recalled some 18 million pounds of beef (that's 550,000 cows) 18 days after originally finding out (and after three subsequent tests showing) that the beef carried E. Coli.
- The FBI is at wit's end - it literally cannot preform its simple job of arresting the bad guys. :D
- The Department of Justice falls into this same category, and major demerits for it when Zacarrias Moussaoui (the '20th hijacker') pleads guilty, then is not allowed to plead guilty by a certain judge in northern Virginia.
- The Senate can't figure out what it's doing...George Bush has openly said he would veto a plan to arm pilots, yet the Senate is still trying to push the very plan Bush would veto through!
- The House: James Traficant. Need I say more? I've taped some of his press conferences and speeches. Man, what fun! :D
 
Wow!

The heated discussion over the US government continues.....errr...wait, nobody's talking government in here?
What the hell!

FIESTA
 
I believe it is the house that is pushing for arming pilots.

btw, the house is right, bush is wrong. common sense and logic say so.
 
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Originally posted by Talentless
I believe it is the house that is pushing for arming pilots.

btw, the house is right, bush is wrong. common sense and logic say so.
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The House is pushing for a bill Bush already said he'd approve, but the Senate wants more, more, more.
 
what do they want? well, just tell the senate the people lining up for whatever positions they want added are all supporters of Bush's judicial nominees or breathed near them. the senate will rest.
 
The Audits have been reduced due to a change in what 'red flags' a return, and monetary incentives have been taken away from IRS auditors for possible abuses of power.
Construction is the only thing keeping the US from recession, and largely thanks to illegal migrant workers making reducing building costs.
The USDA doesn't control the beef, they just set the standards and enforce them when they need to.
The FBI is woefully overburdened, thanks to regional congressman that get frustrated by a crime, forcing it into federal laws all the time. (in effect, dumping things into the FBI's lap.) There was an excellent article talking about this in the New York Times a few months ago.
As for the rest, that would take a full explanation of the US legal system coupled with why checks and balalances advantages and disadvanteges.
It's open season for politicians right now, as they have 2 years to make thier names known before announcing themselves as candidates for the next presidential election. Expect lot's more high profile bills without a chance (and rightfully so) of passing.
 
Originally posted by Tom McDonnell
The Audits have been reduced due to a change in what 'red flags' a return, and monetary incentives have been taken away from IRS auditors for possible abuses of power.
Construction is the only thing keeping the US from recession, and largely thanks to illegal migrant workers making reducing building costs.
The USDA doesn't control the beef, they just set the standards and enforce them when they need to.
The FBI is woefully overburdened, thanks to regional congressman that get frustrated by a crime, forcing it into federal laws all the time. (in effect, dumping things into the FBI's lap.) There was an excellent article talking about this in the New York Times a few months ago.
As for the rest, that would take a full explanation of the US legal system coupled with why checks and balalances advantages and disadvanteges.
It's open season for politicians right now, as they have 2 years to make thier names known before announcing themselves as candidates for the next presidential election. Expect lot's more high profile bills without a chance (and rightfully so) of passing.
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IRS: Well, the fewer audits have also been caused by the fact that for some reason the IRS hasn't done random audits in the past few years...

USDA: Er...I know.

FBI: Right you are, and that's the problem - this agency clearly needs to be broken into divisions, and they clearly need more agents as well. They're a damn joke.

I wish something would be done about the INS/Border Patrol.

Make a name? Ha!

Dems:

Al Gore
John Edwards (NC)
John Kerry (MA)

Republicans:

George W Bush.

Simple! :D
 
The simple anwer is no.

Competing interests and beliefs of what we should and should not do abound. It may not be that America gives the most or largest portion of its gdp in the form of aid, but it is true that we are one of the most politically pressured nations today. The reason is not hard at all to figure out. The liberal and socialistic philosophy of European governments and their peoples, along with the Asian ones (which I suspect are greatly influenced by European thought, though they may be more conservative), help to create in people outside of the US a mentality which believes that those that can should. Not in a broad, all encompassing sense, but that we should give this amount, behave this way, and so on. You may have noticed that AIDS activists were yelling for more money in Spain not long ago. They chose to do this when an American representative was speaking, that was not a coincidence. They also favor confinement and diplomatic processes to war. The point is that we are hated for two reasons, how we use the resources we have in our own country, and what we give in return. And that is, as Bill O'Reilly and Stone Cold would say, the no spin truth and bottom line.
 
Ty.

Yeah, well , you may not feel that way if I were to say some of my other views on the subject.
 

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