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Privatize services to help cut bureaucracy

By Staff | Apr 8, 2015

To the editor:

My name is James Manta, and I am a home schooled teenager studying the Constitution. I have decided to write to the paper to state my views on the government and its rapid expansion of power, especially when it comes to the federal bureaucracy. When our nation was founded, the government was there to merely protect the rights of it citizens. However, over the years, it has continuously grasped for more and more power. Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal” was introduced to help fix economic problems, but it caused a massive one at the same time. The new systems that FDR put into practice, such as social welfare, caused people to develop a more paternalistic view of government. From then, people started to rely on their “big brother” more and more.

Now, don’t miss the point of my reasoning. I believe that the disabled, sick, and elderly should most definitively be cared for, though not by the government. This may sound cruel to some, but it would actually be beneficial to these groups of people if the United States government put such programs into the hands of private organizations. It is unbelievable how inefficiently the bureaucracy runs. They take part in deficit spending with no result. It the debt had to be paid by the people, each individual would have to contribute approximately $56,000. Most of the workers in these government jobs simply push pencils for a living. For example, a group assigned to regulate trucking spent time trying to decide whether or not candy canes should be counted as normal candy when it came to shipping. It’s hard to get fired if you work in government job, even if you work inefficiently. Our government is wasting time and money on its crusade to bring people out of poverty. If they would only break up programs such as food stamps and welfare and give the responsibility over to local establishments such as churches, which could effectively distribute the goods that lower-income and disabled people need. The government has put itself too high up to look down and help people as efficiently as it wants to.

The bureaucracy is also making it harder for businesses to make a profit. For example, the EPA excessively fines businesses if they so much as pay someone to bring trash to an area that the bureaucratic agency is trying to clean. Plus, agencies like OSHA hinder businesses with so many regulations that the places of work need lawyers just to make sure that all of the rules are being followed. The government was set up to protect our free enterprise economy, not to hinder it. If businesses continue to be so heavily fined, it means that they would have to put people out of work or raise their prices. Unemployment and high prices are already massive issues, but if the government continues to do what it does, they will become even larger problems.

Perhaps where it all hits home is with the American people. After all, it’s the most important group within the whole mix. As previously mentioned, there would be much terror if the government would dissolve social welfare, but it might turn out for good if the above fix was put in place. The fix would be people breaking through all of the walls to help other people. That’s the highest level of assistance that Americans can get. It doesn’t help an individual to have to spend hours on the phone because of the inefficiency of government. Everybody knows it’s a hassle whenever they have to call the government or go to a federally-owned establishment to try to get things done. Though they may not want to admit it, these problems arose because the bureaucracy has built itself so high above the private household that trying to question it has become futile. I believe congress and the president need to work together in an effort to shrink bureaucratic growth before the government totally switches its role from a protector to a parent.

James Manta

North Fort Myers