Posted on 10/29/2012 12:26:58 PM PDT by Snuph
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President Barack Obama signaled if he wins a second term he would appoint a Secretary of Business to oversee newly-consolidated government agencies, including the Small Business Administration, and predicted “a war” will break out within the Republican Party after the Nov. 6 election.
“We should have one Secretary of Business, instead of nine different departments that are dealing with things like giving loans to SBA or helping companies with exports,” Mr. Obama said in an interview that aired Monday on MSNBC. “There should be a one-stop shop.”
Mr. Obama blamed Congress for such consolidation not happening during his first term because lawmakers have been “very protective about not giving up their jurisdiction over various pieces of government.” But the president has done little to push the idea himself.
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One secretary, three agencies and two dozen czars. And a partridge in a pear tree.
It would have been a left wing college professor, but not to be. Obama is going down.
I agree that we should get rid of the nine different departments. I disagree that we should add more bureaucracy on top of what is already there.
How about a Secretary of Propaganda a Secretary of Religion and a Secretary of Culture while you’re at it?
I may have to switch my support from Romney to Obama based on this news article. /s
What a ridiculous clown: the President of The United States of America is supposed to be our full-time “Secretary of Business”.
“The business of government is not the government of business.”
- Anon
He even named his first choice. Wesley Mouch.
Lard up the gubmint even more.
A department of education that does no educating!
A department of energy that produces no energy!
A department of agriculture that grows nothing!
A department of business that couldn’t run a lemonade stand!
The feral gubmint has become an invading and occupying force.
I had another big idea ... all by myself!
Might make sense if you combine the Labor Department (Sec of Labor) and Commerce Department (Sec of Commerce) and cut a bunch of deadbeat government employees and make it more efficient by cutting costs, but that certainly isn't Barry's style.
Right, Barry. We absolutely need a Dept. of Business.
What a clueless tool.
Where does he get weed that strong? Of course, he still thinks he won all three debates and that Smirkin’ Joe Crazier crushed Paul Ryan...
Don’t we already have a department of commerce? What was it designed to do?
There should be at best 5 cabinet positions. Sec. of War, Sec. of Treasury, Sec. of State, Attorney Gen, and Sec. of UN disposal.
I like your flow chart, and approve Secretary of War instead of Secretary of Defense. We have not conclusively won a war under any Secretary of ‘Defense’.
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