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Posted on 12/14/16 at 7:49 am to germandawg
The DoE is a traditional conservatives perfect agency..Jimmy Carter, the original privatizer in chief, started the agency from day one to be a marriage of government oversight and private sector management. The problem is that no one ever considers the lobbying efforts of the private sector which is profiting from such a marriage...so they have lobbied and worked hard to increase their footprint and their influence. They would love to have less oversight and that is what Trump and Perry will provide them....and that is a good thing for anyone who sees all government as all bad all the time.
The core function of the DoE will not go away as long as we are a nation with nuclear weapons. What will go away, and has gone away already to the point of absurdity, is any sort of oversight. And if you think for a second that the capital that is involved in the the DoE complex from the private sector is going to allow Trump and Perry to get in their sand box and do anything other than eliminate oversight you have lost your fricking mind. You can either allow the foxes to run the hen-house or you can pretend their is a dog keeping the foxes at bay but you are either going to have the hen-house or your chickens are going to get eaten by any manner of predators....
The core function of the DoE will not go away as long as we are a nation with nuclear weapons. What will go away, and has gone away already to the point of absurdity, is any sort of oversight. And if you think for a second that the capital that is involved in the the DoE complex from the private sector is going to allow Trump and Perry to get in their sand box and do anything other than eliminate oversight you have lost your fricking mind. You can either allow the foxes to run the hen-house or you can pretend their is a dog keeping the foxes at bay but you are either going to have the hen-house or your chickens are going to get eaten by any manner of predators....
Posted on 12/14/16 at 7:50 am to golfntiger32
No he hasn't...but the secretary has been a scientist educated and trained in the work that the DoE does...
Posted on 12/14/16 at 8:04 am to Broseph Barksdale
quote:The military can handle that. No reason for another bureaucratic agency to be involved.
The nuclear WEAPONS program
Posted on 12/14/16 at 8:39 am to GeauxxxTigers23
Let's be real here folks, Trump isn't going to eliminate the DoE. Now what I do see him doing, along with Perry, is taking a hard look at the role and function of the various parts of the DoE and making cuts where appropriate. Same with the EPA, and various other executive agencies.
Time to trim the fat, and there is a whole ton of fat sitting inside the beltway in DC.
Time to trim the fat, and there is a whole ton of fat sitting inside the beltway in DC.
Posted on 12/14/16 at 8:43 am to AU86
I worked for the Dept. of Energy for several years and I can tell you that it is an extremely bloated agency that could probably lose about 80% of it's employees and still accomplish it's mission.
Posted on 12/14/16 at 8:48 am to joshnorris14
This defiance will last up until January 21. After that he gets to fire those who don't respond.
Posted on 12/14/16 at 10:00 am to cahoots
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So you're gonna eliminate all 13,000 scientists, researchers, engineers, etc. and hope that Perry can restock it with people knowledgeable enough to run our nuclear program, among other functions, overnight?
Yes I hope so.
And I hope he will kill the Department of Education while he is at it.
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:00 pm to Sid in Lakeshore
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I think they should look at EPA first.
I've always been of a mind that the functions of the EPA could be split between Energy and Department of the Interior - they've lost their way as the official government agency of the Green (Marxist) movement.
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:02 pm to alphaandomega
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And I hope he will kill the Department of Education while he is at it.
I'm for this as well. At worst, there could be a vestigial organ to coordinate grant and other financial aid, and perhaps coordinate states for regional or national standards, but education and schooling should absolutely not be a federal function. It was big government folly to ever go down that road, IMHO.
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