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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOur Federal Institutions Seem To Be Doing A Lot Of Strange Things & Are Less Effective.
It seems like our federal agencies are doing a lot of strange things that are contrary to their responsibilities. The FBI is off the rails with the Clinton investigations while GOP corruption gets little attention. Regulatory agencies seem to be going light on offenders. The EPA looks less robust than it used to be. Look at Flint. Pharma seems to be out of control with little resistance from the FDA. The VA is failing in ways that seem unprecedented. We see the Forest Service make decisions that are not in the best interests of our national park system. Vets are getting less care and less response.
If you look around government is not working as well in many critical areas. If you are a federal worker and you are a Republican you are supporting a party that is telling you to gum up the works. You are supporting a party that wants to give your job to a private company and hire you back for 1/2 the pay.
Compared to when I worked at Department of Labor work place abuses and wage theft is epidemic. Employers are getting away with things they never could before. The courts are backed up and we get a lot of questionable and screwball decisions by the courts that make little sense.
I really could be wrong about what I have said here. But so many things do not add up when it comes to our government institutions.
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PufPuf23
(8,822 posts)The US Forest Service manages the National Forest System and is USDA. Minor parts of the National Forests have been designated National Recreation Areas and are managed like National Parks (and sometimes with co-management by National Park Service).
National Parks and National Monuments are managed by the US park Service and are in USDI.
Otherwise I agree with your post.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)I think the most notable thing I see is how many areas of enforcement and regulatory policy is lagging. The Flint water situation is one of the best examples. Allowing guns in our national parks is another thing I was surprised by. And it is not necessarily anything obvious. It is just that these little reg flags keep popping up. It is like a miss in your car engine. You keep noticing it even though your car seems to be running fine.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)Putin has used cyber attacks to undermine our electoral process. Trump has used the stump to de-legitimize the efforts of our intelligence community with respect to Russian cyber attacks. Comey has violated protocol to de-legitimize Trump's opponent. Trump and Comey have made it clear that any response by Comey's superiors at the Justice Department will be received as being corrupt interference. We are in the nascent stage of a political coup folks.
Moliere
(285 posts)I believe it started with PNAC and their efforts to delegitimize government. Reagan and Bushes with an unhealthy dose of Cheney. 40 years of embedding and burrowing into every department, massive cash spent to elect people to every level of government and this is what we've got
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Being a veteran when I look at the VA, it was never that bad when I was in government 20 years ago. The push to give the VA to private insurance companies is appalling. Yet vets support politicians pushing that idea.
spanone
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)plutocrats IMO collecting paychecks and making decisions to enhance their wealth and that of their cronies!
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)country. An election of Trump, will probably complete their attempt to fully destabilize the US. I'm not a panicky type, but I am quite concerned an election of Trump will take the US under. I truly think many, even those that voted for him, might be stunned at what the country descends into "if" a Trump presidency.
