The bigger and the better organized government becomes,
the more powerful, controlling and corrupt it gets, and the more damage it does
to the American system and the people it is supposed to serve. That’s why I
believe that department heads for Education, Energy, EPA, and Commerce should not
be appointed by president-elect Trump, and here are the reasons I’ve reached
this conclusion:
Since the formation of the Department of Education, we’ve
consistently seen test scores and the general level of education in American
schools decline. Our children are being taught liberal-thought and are not
being educated even close to the level of education that children got in the
1800s. The education of our children used to be a local function, but since the
federal government has taken control of it, it has become more expensive and no
longer teaches children the truth about their nation nor how to think freely
and logically.
Since the formation of the Department of Energy the
ability of our nation, via our energy companies, to extract crude oil and
natural gas from the earth has been greatly restricted and controlled by
government, and even with a project like the Keystone pipeline, which even Obama
and his Secretary of State said was a worthy project and caused no conflicts or
problems, government still sets roadblocks in the way of this essential
delivery of energy to America, and Keystone is still stalled. And, since the
formation of the Department of Energy, the cost of gasoline for automobiles and
natural gas for American homes has increased enormously, thus offering confirmation
that big government hurts American citizens.
Since the formation of the EPA the number of
job-killing, business-hobbling regulations has become equal to the flow of the
Mississippi River and has hurt the earning capacity of all Americans. Americans
would live happier, more prosperous lives if the EPA were vacated. The EPA and
all of its volumes of regulations could not stop a disaster like the poisoning
of Flint, Michigan’s water supply from happening, and this socialist,
anti-capitalist group should be disbanded and its enabling legislation
repealed.
Since the formation of the Department of Commerce an
increasing number of corporations have fled the United States and settled in
foreign countries seeking fewer restrictions, fewer regulations, lower taxes
and cheaper labor. Commerce has been a flop. Disband it.
My plea for Mr. Trump to not appoint department heads
for government departments that have harmed Americans and made their lives less
pleasant is not a criticism of him and his power-transfer staff, it’s rather a
different approach to “draining the swamp”, which I’m pleased to say is under
way with this new president.
And with thousands of top government positions to
fill, if a few hundred of these positions were left vacant, government would be
smaller, less costly, less restrictive, and better. Go Trump!
