Which party created the gov’t bureaucracies ?

Everybody knows that Fed Dept’s have many overlapping and redundant agencies … and that inefficiency rules the day.

My POV: getting Fed spending under control can’t be done simply “at the margin” by squeezing all agencies 10% or so.

Rather, major surgery needs to be done – eliminating agencies or whole departments.

I assumed that most of the bureaucracies were set up by Dems, and was surprised to learn that out of the 15 Departments in the Executive Branch …

The Founding Fathers created 3
Democrats created 5
Republicans created 7

Republicans created these Departments;

Hmmm.

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One Response to “Which party created the gov’t bureaucracies ?”

Tim Williams Says:
January 27, 2011 at 1:53 pm | Reply
Well, Bush the Elder elevated the VA to a cabinet-level department in 1989. The Veterans Administration was established in 1930, and even then was a consolidation of multiple agencies. I think there are similar stories behind most of the other departments you’ve listed.

None of which contradicts your basic point, though: Republicans have no track record for downsizing anything in government…

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