[MadIvan]

I'd go further -

1. Get rid of the Department of Education - privatise the entire system and grant vouchers to the poor.
2. Privatise Social Security for anyone new, raise the retirement age, means test anyone who is in it now.
3. Get rid of the Department of Energy.
4. Get rid of the Department of Agriculture.
5. Get rid of the Department of Transportation; make all roads toll roads.
6. Get rid of Housing and Urban Development; oi, mayors, want new housing, relax the planning laws!
7. Get rid of Medicaid; give health insurance vouchers instead.
8. Means test Medicare; grant the same health insurance vouchers.
9. Privatise Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
10. Cut the entire foreign aid budget.
11. The war on drugs to be ended - drug users to be denied health insurance vouchers.

The amount of screaming in Washington would take years to die down, but it would work. Furthermore, taxes could be slashed further.

Regards, Ivan

[Puddleglum]

good ideas all. It's going to take a second Reagan and a grass-roots revolution, but that's how Reagan did what he did (to the extent he did it).

[M203M4]

I agree...but I think even if you took every right testicle in every branch of government, and combined them into a freakish Frankensteinian mass, there would still not be enough balls to get it done.

There aren't many in government who look at that and see what a conservative should see (about 70% waste, fraud, pork, ignorance, ponzi schemes, outright theft, lunacy, and naivety - a disgrace).

[Texas Federalist]

I'd like to add - Get rid of the Department of Indian Affairs.