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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (13603)	2/26/2010 11:17:47 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Hell there are specs when I hire a guy to mow my lawn. That doesn't mean I mow it myself... I outsource and someone else performs the function. Exactly. You retain the ownership of the lawn and the responsibility for the function of mowing it. It's your job to maintain grass of appropriate height. That some interchangeable guy actually pushes the mower doesn't change that. You've simply outsourced the performance. Ownership and responsibility remain with you. It's your function. EPA isn't very recent. DHS is probably a good one. DHS wasn't the result of creating new government functions. It just reorganized the functions that were already performed elsewhere into one agency. EPA was founded on a reorganization, too. Some of it's functions were originally performed by Interior, Ag, etc. so it wasn't a great example. The Department of Education is a good example. They were new functions at the federal level. Typically when Congresses takes on new functions it creates a bureaucracy to handle it. That might be a new department or it may be a new office within an existing one. It has to assign the responsibilities, authorities, and functions somewhere. So the number of boxes on the federal organization chart tells us a lot about the growth of government. Re "recent," noticeable additions don't occur frequently. Some administrations don't produce any. That's why I looked at the last century. If you look just at the last few administrations, you won't find a lot. Bush created that office for faith-based initiatives. That's the most recent one that comes to mind. Of course this health care reform will produce a whopper of an increase.