Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "The True Cost of Trump's Presidential Transition | Business Insider" video.
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The US military is probably a great deal larger than it needs to be, and the Department of "Education" is simply a funnel for grants to the states which could be folded down into about six people, two telephones and a computer terminal inside HUD. (I wrote the first round of the legislation which brought it into existence, and I did a very bad job of it: I underestimated the wickedness of the AERA, the American Educational Research Association, which kidnapped it. The original intention, when it was the much smaller National Institute of Education, was the carry out research on education; the role of the AERA is to suppress it.)
In general, however, the US government if far, far better staffed -- leaner, and both more efficient and more honest -- than any large private organization anywhere doing anything.
The post office, though, should probably be abolished, replaced by six or eight people in Treasury and the military to be responsible for anything either top secret or radioactive.
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