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328 sats \ 7 replies \ @BlokchainB 6 Nov \ on: How to Actually Drain the Swamp Politics_And_Law
Let’s make this fun. Federal workers are not one big blob of people mindlessly working on trying to make America a worse place. For example some agencies do great work with keeping the general public safe (FAA) and others can possibly go away and the majority of Americans wouldn’t even notice (USAID).
So imagine we elected @Undisciplined to Oval Office and he can hire and fire as he wishes add and delete executive branch departments and agencies as he sees fit to run the country.
So if you are up to it @Undisciplined craft your United States Government.
The more detailed you are the more sats I’ll zap.
If you stick to just departments I’ll zap you 10k sats
If you go to departments and agencies I’ll zap you 20k sats
If you do departments, agencies, the number of employed staff currently and how much you would cut that staff down to I’ll zap you 30k sats.
Then let’s have a thought experiment to see how well America will run under an @Undisciplined administration!
Good luck!
Sorry, I don't believe in central planning. If I had that power, I would dissolve the entirety of the executive branch and make it as difficult as possible to put it back together. I would also pardon everyone in federal prison, nullify every executive order, and repeal every regulation.
I'm not unwilling to play the game you wanted me to play, but that is my answer within the framework you established.
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That’s cool. I made an offer you refused. Life goes on.
Based upon your answer law and order has no meaning. You know places like this already exist on earth. You can easily move to location that lays out everything you would do in your objection to central planning.
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I didn't refuse your offer. You asked me a question (essentially) and I answered it honestly.
I believe in law and order, but not that systematic rights violations are required to have it. You don't have make uncharitable assumptions about what I believe. I'm right here, you can just ask.
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Yes you answered the question but it ignores how would society function with your actions, the goal was to see what things you would eliminate and what institutions would be impacted. Like getting rid of the FAA. Well what happens when airways are unregulated.
Not making assumptions just trying to understand why Pardon every federal prisoner. What’s the point in doing that? Even those who plead guilty to a crime. Why let them free?
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Originally, there were only three federal crimes: treason, piracy, and counterfeiting. I don't think anyone's currently in jail for piracy, I don't believe treason is a legitimate crime, and the government is the primary counterfeiter. All other crimes were intended to be handled at a more local level.
Basically, my position is that no one in federal prison should be in a federal prison. If they committed a real crime, that should have been handled more locally.
As to pleading guilty, feel free to ask Siggy about how perverse our plea system is. That means nothing to me, because those deals are all made under duress.
As to the FAA, air-traffic control is perfectly attainable at a more local level. Almost all of the 200 other countries on Earth are smaller than the US and somehow they manage to not have their planes crash into each other regularly. Just because something isn't regulated by the feds doesn't mean it's unregulated.
Like I said, I'm happy to attempt the exercise you were getting at, but it wouldn't be an honest reflection of what Undisciplined would do with unlimited executive power. I do think conversations about downstream effects on institutions are very interesting. I can take another crack at this with the added caveat that I can't just fire everyone and shutdown everything.
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Lately there have been a lot of close call accidents at airports. FAA has not had a good run the last 3 years
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Chaos Theory by Bob Murphy is a good short book (actually just two essays) about why chaos is not the result of deregulation and why the government is not the best provider of law enforcement/defense.
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