wombat_socho

You're right, but unfortunately there's a lot of political reasons why that isn't going to happen, any more than Reagan, Bush the Elder or W could just get rid of the Energy & Education departments with the stroke of a pen. It's kind of like piloting a supertanker: the damn things are so huge that their inertia keeps you from making any kind of course change or even stopping one without taking hours to do so...and not only are the bureaucratic systems we're talking about much larger, but they fight back. I'm preaching to the choir here, I'll shut up now.