bu$h's Most Radical Plan Yet

[liberal N proud]

WIth a vote of hand-picked lobbyists, the president could terminate any federal agency he dislikes

If you've got something to hide in Washington, the best place to bury it is in the federal budget. The spending plan that President Bush submitted to Congress this year contains 2,000 pages that outline funding to safeguard the environment, protect workers from injury and death, crack down on securities fraud and ensure the safety of prescription drugs. But almost unnoticed in the budget, tucked away in a single paragraph, is a provision that could make every one of those protections a thing of the past.
The proposal, spelled out in three short sentences, would give the president the power to appoint an eight-member panel called the "Sunset Commission," which would systematically review federal programs every ten years and decide whether they should be eliminated. Any programs that are not "producing results," in the eyes of the commission, would "automatically terminate unless the Congress took action to continue them."

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In practice, however, the commission would enable the Bush administration to achieve what Ronald Reagan only dreamed of: the end of government regulation as we know it. With a simple vote of five commissioners -- many of them likely to be lobbyists and executives from major corporations currently subject to federal oversight -- the president could terminate any program or agency he dislikes. No more Environmental Protection Agency. No more Food and Drug Administration. No more Securities and Exchange Commission.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7265052?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single7&rnd=1114114700265&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.1059

[murray hill farm]

1. Well..............

it just keeps getting scarier...and scarier...i am afraid this is now...and has evolved into an atmosphere of acceptance for the usa...just look the other way..keep head in sand..too scary to acknowledge....and so it continues.