Announcing plans to consolidate five federal
agencies, Obama, again, invited Congress to come along for the
ride. He made it clear, however, that he no longer needs the
Congress to accomplish his will. No one can see this statement as a
request for bi-partisanship that goes beyond the GOP leadership simply agreeing
with Obama, and doing so immediately.
"In the coming weeks we're also going to unveil a new
website, Business USA. And this site will be a one-stop shop for small
businesses and exporters and will consolidate information that right now is
spread across all these various sites so that it's all in one place, and it is
easy to search. So, with or without congress, I'm going to keep at
it. But it would be a lot easier
if Congress helped. This is an area that should receive bipartisan
support, because making our government more responsive and strategic and
leaner, it shouldn't be a partisan issue," -- Obama am Jan
13th.
Understand
the timing on this televised bit of rhetorical crap. It comes on the
heels of Obama's request to raise the debt ceiling (yesterday). He asks
for increasing the debt while giving the appearance of personally working to
cut waste in government.
And the
results of his reorganization? He will cut or move to other federal
agencies, a total of 2,000 people. The reorganization in toto, will
save 3 billion OVER THE COURSE OF TEN YEARS or one/onethousandth of the 1.2
trillion he is asking from congress.
Let's not
be fooled.
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