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View Poll Results: The Federal Agency in Most Need of Reform is...
FEMA 0 0%
TSA 1 4.35%
Federal Reserve 7 30.43%
Senate 0 0%
House of Representative 0 0%
White House 0 0%
Supreme Court 0 0%
National Labor Relations Board 0 0%
Department of Veteran's Affairs 0 0%
Housing and Urban Development 1 4.35%
Environmental Protection Agency 5 21.74%
Food and Drug Administration 0 0%
Immigration and Customs Enforcement 3 13.04%
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms 2 8.70%
National Transportation Safety Board 0 0%
Department of the Interior 0 0%
Department of State 0 0%
Health and Human Services 0 0%
NASA 0 0%
Small Business Administration 0 0%
AMTRAK 1 4.35%
CIA 0 0%
NSA 0 0%
Nuclear Regulatory Agency 0 0%
Securities and Exchange Commission 3 13.04%
Voters: 23. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 04-28-2011, 12:30 PM
 
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As some pointed out, the Defense Department should be looked at. I voted for Immigration and Customs Enforcement because they are clearly not doing the job. Supposedly there is a law against hiring illegal aliens but enforcement is lax. Customs is a joke, who knows how much contraband flows in every day. I doubt they catch one percent of it.
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Old 04-28-2011, 12:40 PM
 
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The Federal Government is too large to fit every single agency into a poll.

Sorry.

Sorry? I'll bet.

How convenient for your bias as shown in your poll.

You threw everything in but the kitchen sink and and ran out of the room to add Defense.....Right.

Want don't you just label it ... What would Right Wingers like to start with first as we attempt to dismantle the Federal government and turn our country into a right wing fascist military state?

Go Fish.
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Old 04-28-2011, 01:02 PM
 
Location: Bella Vista, Ark
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I would pick the Dept of Education.
I would only fund it enough to put out a national curriculum that all states need to follow.
All the rest of their "guidance" gets thrown in the trash.
All students take the SAT and that is our "national" test of adhering to the national curriculum.

The present is pretty much a wash so I'm going for a smarter future generation.

To add...I didn't vote the poll because Dept. of Education isn't on there.
My thoughts exactly: I was looking for the Dept Of Ed, but it was left off. This shows how fixed polls can be: I would not reform it, I would dump it.

Nita
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Old 04-28-2011, 01:31 PM
 
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As some pointed out, the Defense Department should be looked at. I voted for Immigration and Customs Enforcement because they are clearly not doing the job. Supposedly there is a law against hiring illegal aliens but enforcement is lax. Customs is a joke, who knows how much contraband flows in every day. I doubt they catch one percent of it.

I will go with ICE as well. Greg said he believes we need the cheap labor. I think we have enough unskilled citizens to fill the jobs. I also think the additional costs to the nation due to illegal immigration place it in the high priority catergory. We are being told that illegals add as much as $16 billion per year to our tax coffers but when you see that one county in California says it is costing them over $12 billion per year you must see the devastating effect this has on our economy.

The cheap labor that illegals offer is lowering the wages of many that are striving to feed a family without relying on the public coffers.
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Old 04-28-2011, 01:34 PM
 
Location: Earth
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Defense, apparently this is a bit biased since it's not included.
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Old 04-28-2011, 01:37 PM
 
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Sorry? I'll bet.

How convenient for your bias as shown in your poll.

You threw everything in but the kitchen sink and and ran out of the room to add Defense.....Right.

Want don't you just label it ... What would Right Wingers like to start with first as we attempt to dismantle the Federal government and turn our country into a right wing fascist military state?

Go Fish.
Too much centralized government is exactly what leads to a fascist state and at the moment, the right wing isn't head of the parade.
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Old 04-28-2011, 01:41 PM
 
Location: texas
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The cost of running the Fed is not the problem. The problem is the fact they are authorized to do things which they should not be authorized to do.
Ok, let me say it in English this time......Scrap what is not needed and streamline it.....
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Old 04-28-2011, 01:43 PM
 
Location: Texas State Fair
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If You Could Pick Just ONE Federal Department to Reform Which Would It Be?

The Executive, to understand it must acquiesce to Congress and the electorate.
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Old 04-28-2011, 01:51 PM
 
Location: PA
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The white house is not a agency.
You left out the department of education and the IRS which would be my votes but it really starts with CONGRESS.
They created the federal agencies and or write the laws that give them power.
Start with congress and you can correct the other unconsitutional agencies and their powers.
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Old 04-28-2011, 01:54 PM
 
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EPA.

I would fire everyone then require them all to submit an essay on if they think the EPA should regulate CO2.

if they support CO2 regulation, they would not get their jobs back.

Those that were re-hired would have to sign a legal brief stating they would never suggest that CO2 was a polutant.
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