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President Barack Obama will ask Congress on Friday for authority to close the Commerce Department and create a new export agency, an overhaul that could save US$3-billion and help inoculate him against Republican election-year charges that he is a big-government liberal.

White House budget official Jeffrey Zients told reporters the reorganization would fold together the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and other trade bodies now spread across Washington, giving businesses a single point of contact and ensuring federal spending goes further to boost exports.

1) He can close half a dozen agencies, cut half a trillion out of the budget, and he's still a big government power hungry liberal.

2) He wants to close one department and merge a bunch of agencies, but does anybody here think he would actually shed government jobs? No. It'll just be another huge and bloated bureaucracy. In fact, it'll probably be bigger. Remember when Bush said creating the Department of Homeland Security would save money and improve efficiency? Nearly a decade on, and it's bigger than it ever was, and it's bigger than the sum of its original parts.

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NO WAY COMMIE BARRY

we are on to your Alinsky tricks

This is a bait and switch

He is askingCongress to give President authority to change around executive agencies
but Congress can only vote yes or no.

Barry will make his Consumer Protection Racket Board a cabinet level
position.

He JUST non-recess appointed the CPFA director. Unconstitutional.

BARRY THE DICTATOR