The government of the United States is broken - at the Federal, State, and local levels - 1 completely redundand federal govt, 50 states, territories, over 3,000 cities and thousands of overlapping city and town governments.
This made a lot of sense when you had large distances between populations, and slow transportation (pre 1930). It makes no sense today to allow for thousands of different approaches.
If you talk to people in these various entities you find out that redundancy, duplication and any lack of a standardized approach is mostly absent. Insurance is regulated by the states, and there are 51 separate methods of being an insurance agent? Why?
Corporations like WalMart and Home Depot have shown how standards drive success and efficiencies. If a WalMart exec suddenly decided he was going to something majorly differnt, he or she would quickly be shown the door.
Do we really need Fish and Game at both the federal level and all the states? As much as I love fishing, it makes no sense in our current financial straits. Are all the government agencies necessary? Why do the overap so much.
Imagine the blowback if someone suggested getting rid of states in favor of regions, or consolidating all the counties in one set of state provided services.
We have to change with the world if we're going to lead.
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