America's energy solution

Since the Ayatollah Obama and our elected representatives can't seem to figure out how to reduce the size of government, and can't seem to get the cost of government under control, I've come up with a few things that might help.  There is a growing feeling amongst the populace that government is an assembly of non-producers that suck up resources but never produce anything but hate, discontent and unrest.  Here are some suggestions:

1.  Make the Department of Energy actually produce energy.  Make them discover, drill for, produce and refine oil.  Make them produce, install, and maintain electrical plants - and distribute the power produced.  Make them produce nuclear power plants, service them and distribute the power.  So far the Department of Energy has been pretty effective at preventing some of these things from happening.  My suggestion is, let them figure out how to do it on the budget they already have.

2.  Make the Department of Transportation produce, staff, manage and service all surface transportation in the United States.  They're pretty good at criticizing and controlling the current surface transportation system, so let them do a better job.  Right now they are choking trucking, barge, shipping, auto and rail transportation with their massive and unintelligible regulations.

3.  Make the FAA produce, staff, manage and service all air transportation.  Again here is a federal  agency that has never produced a thing, but it controls everything.  FAA should get the opportunity to actually do what they think they can do better than the airlines.

4.  Sell all property controlled by the Bureau of Land Management.  I'm pretty sure that would get the government out of debt.  Why in the world is the Government in the land business anyway.  I don't recall anything in the constitution that provides for anything but land required for actual government business.  Surely the framers didn't foresee ownership of vast lands.

5.  Close the Department of Education.  Never has produced anything, and it never will.  From my point of view the only purpose it has is to spend money we don't have.

I think that would go a long way in reducing the powerful suction of resources by our government and get it to begin actually producing the funds needed to run itself.  I'm betting it will  never happen.

Enough said.