I am going to repeat this. I DO NOT WORK FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT and anyone who says differently is a slanderer. However, I don’t believe that Federal agencies are automatically evil, nor are many of the people in them mindless bureaucrats. Of course, I work in IT, where the Federales I do meet are pretty sharp.
Companies have a natural lifespan. Agencies don’t. They just try to change the mission. Instead of thinking that way, think of an agency as a project — something with a definite goal and end — not as a permanent creation.
Of course, one size does not fit all. Certain functions are so vital they must be kept going. However, that list should be pretty small.
How could anything established under the miserable presidency of Jimmy Carter be useful except as another agency to provide jobs for the dreaded bureaucratic administrators?
In the case of catastrophes the individual states need to provide the necessary emergency services. The 'central' government should provide little in the way of services or anything for that matter to the states.
Providing large and disgusting pork barrel projects to their constituents and rewards to those that finance bloated political war chests is what today's government is all about. It is what is shoving this nation into the dustbin of history so that in a few more decades this nation will be unrecognizeable from its present form....which is unrecognizeable in the form it presented 40 years ago.
Federal agencies are evil and are, by and large, staffed with mindless bureaucrats who appear to have traded their souls for a high-paying government job.