[bluefish]

Your point is well taken, but consider in large Federal bureacracies, our freedoms are actually lost to the bureaucrats, not the President or Congress necessarily. Wouldn't consolidation of the bureacratic mess make it easier for Congressional and Judicial oversight? Wishful thinking perhaps, but I am hoping to see a possibility that the giant bureacracies, their inefficiencies, ineffectiveness, corruption and oppressive powers, just MAY actually be a little more tightly controlled this way. I have no idea, but I AM trying to find some good here to offset the natural fears and suspicions that arise for me.

[cva66snipe]

Your point is well taken, but consider in large Federal bureacracies, our freedoms are actually lost to the bureaucrats, not the President or Congress necessarily. Wouldn't consolidation of the bureacratic mess make it easier for Congressional and Judicial oversight? Wishful thinking perhaps, but I am hoping to see a possibility that the giant bureacracies, their inefficiencies, ineffectiveness, corruption and oppressive powers, just MAY actually be a little more tightly controlled this way. I have no idea, but I AM trying to find some good here to offset the natural fears and suspicions that arise for me.

Given the fact that many federal agencies are not necessary and this just creates yet another one which will likely like the EPA, Treasury, Interior, Energy, and Education Dept, create it's own new rules and regulations for us to live by I'm leary of it. We are creating more agencies to oversee agencies that over see other agencies. It's like making more laws sooner or later you become saturated in them and none are effective. This is somewhat a taking of many agencies that we don't need and combining there strenght. How many more federal policing agencies must we have?