Let’s say you are an unemployed human resource whose family needs service: HHS links you to –> Posted on 07/20/2010 10:20:40 AM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
Reporters Dana Priest and William Arkin did amazing job at Washington Post revealing the bloating stricture of the US Intelligence bureaucracy.We hope this is just the first of series estimating the size of the US federal bureaucracy.
Here is the next challenge: Washington Post will really help the country if they are able to count the number of government organizations and private companies involved with the Department that is bankrupting the country: The Department of Health and Human Services.
The A-Z bureaucracy index of HHS is so big that majority of the agencies have their own A-Z indexes.
Let’s say you are an unemployed human resource whose family needs service: HHS links you to –>
the Administration for Children and Families that links you to –>
the Office of Family Assistance that links you to –>
your State Family Assistance Program that links you to –>
your local office of Family Assistance Program.
It seems that there are too many middle men.
At the end your State administers almost every aspect of the work with families that need assistance, but the tax-payers maintain all the federal bureaucracy with their fancy salaries, benefits, paperwork, web-sites, blogs, YouTube and twitter accounts.
Why not give the money to the States and get rid of some Directors on top that waste tax-payer money to direct to the State agencies? Cut some of the middle men?
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Yeah right! Their goal is not to eliminate govt bureaucracy and waste it’s to eliminate our military and intelligence capabilities. I’m sure they would be only too happy if all the money for those departments went to feed the HHS behemoth.
Yes! It is TIME to DownSize DC!
Eliminate entire Departments (Education, EPA, etc)
Force Congress & Senate to telecommute most of the year from their home district.
Move what is worthwhile back to State and Local Government level. Change the entire center-of-gravity of government.
Away from Lobbyists and bribing dealmakers.
I agree, the size of HHS is of mythical proportions - needs to be added to the list of the Wonders of the World.
Ahem....
The politician who has the guts to cut 20% of the Washington DC bureaucracy in 4 years - will have my total respect.
Why? Don't you own the content?
Do you care for the whole long version of it?
What will folks see if they click on your blog?
The whole long version of it? Isn't that the info you wish to impart?
Well.. impart it then.
Here's how Obama "Stimulated" the Economy......by run-away spending
The US Treasury entry must be seen in this context. COS Rahm Emanuel took control of the US Treasury when he crept into our WH. "Professor" Obama knows nothing about high finance----but Rahm toiled on Wall Street before coming into government (4 term-Congressman, Clinton henchman and Fannie Mae looter).
Behind The Real Size of the Wall Street Bailout (more like $14 trillion)
Mother Jones | Dec. 21, 2009 / FR Posted January 04, 2010 by E. Pluribus Unum
A guide to the abbreviations, acronyms, and obscure programs that make up the $14 trillion federal bailout of Wall Street.
The price tag for the Wall Street bailout is often put at $700 billion—the size of the Troubled Assets Relief Program. But TARP is just the best known program in an array of more than 30 overseen by Treasury Department and Federal Reserve that have paid out or put aside money to bail out financial firms and inject money into the markets. To get a sense of the size of the real $14 trillion bailout, see our chart here. Below, a guide to the pieces of the puzzle:
Treasury Department bailout programs (controlled by Rahm Emanuel)
Money Market Mutual Fund: In September 2008, the Treasury announced that it would insure the holdings of publicly offered money market mutual funds. According to the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), these guarantees could have potentially cost the federal government more than $3 trillion [PDF].
Public-Private Investment Fund: This joint Treasury-Federal Reserve program bought toxic assets from banks and brokerages—as much as $5 billion of assets per firm. According to SIGTARP, the government's potential exposure from the PPIF is between $500 million and $1 trillion [PDF].
TARP: As part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Treasury has made loans to or investments more than 750 banks and financial institutions. $650 billion has been paid out (not including HAMP; see below). As of December 21, 2009, $117.5 billion of that has been repaid. Government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) stock purchase: The Treasury has bought $200 million in preferred stock from Fannie Mae and another $200 million from Freddie Mac [PDF] to show that they "will remain viable entities critical to the functioning of the housing and mortgage markets." GSE mortgage-backed securities purchase: Under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, the Treasury may buy mortgage-backed securities from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. According to SIGTARP, these purchases could cost as much as $314 billion [PDF].
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Federal Reserve bailout programs
Commercial Paper Funding Facility: With the support from the Treasury, the Fed established the CPFF in October 2008 to increase the availability of short-term debt (commercial paper) funding. Up to $1.8 trillion [PDF] was earmarked for the program.
Mortgage-backed securities purchase: In 2009, the Fed earmarked up to $1.25 trillion to buy investments based on home loans.
Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility: TALF provides financing to investors who are buying asset-backed securities. In February 2009, the Fed and Treasury announced an expansion of the program to generate up to $1 trillion in new lending.
Foreign Central Bank Currency Liquidity Swaps: The Fed has provided $755 billion [PDF] for currency liquidity swaps with foreign central banks.
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DID GANGSTER GOVERNMENT SCAM $14 TRILLION USING THE MADOFF MO? Madoff created a supersecret labyrinth of interrelated international funds, institutions and financial entities of almost unparalleled complexity and breadth......with assets and businesses in multiple places overseas that hid thievery, money launderering and tax evasion.
At least half a dozen people in the Obama admin are going to walk away from “ Public Service “ living like the Sultan of Brunei.
I am a blogger - I post in the blogger category. This is why we have blogger category. I post the main idea. For most folks that is enough in the age of twitter.
This a great research. Washington Post should definitely dig into it. Do you thing anybody in the mainstream media will bother?
My condolences.
I post in the blogger category.
Paging Captain Obvious..
This is why we have blogger category.
To feed you blog hits? Really?
I post the main idea.
You excerpt for blog hits.
For most folks that is enough in the age of twitter.
I think most folks here are not twits.
OK - before you call me a pimp - let me remind you - I am a pimpess. I am stay at home lady who blogs to advance the common cause. You can keep insulting me - or you may add a comment on substance.
I am not the problem - the overblown federal bureaucracy is the problem.
Pass it along far and wide——somebody’s gonna take an interest.....sooner or later.
Thank you for your support - I am trying - like many mothers in America today - to bring awareness to the problem.
They keep calling me a pimp - keep calling - I am pimping the effort to bring more conservative voices to the web.
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