Corrupt government agencies in the US

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Mr. Ed

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Most corrupt government agencies in the United States​



Scott Bernstein

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Published Mar 19, 2015
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One could argue that every government agency serves the purpose of stifling freedom and wasting taxpayer money. Yet, they go the extra mile for their sheer corruption, draconian regulations, and ultimate impact upon the largest number of citizens.
The main criteria for inclusion is the amount of money spent by the taxpayer according to official budget declarations, and then attaining the highest level of doing exactly the opposite of their stated intentions.
Here are just some of my my picks for the most corrupt agencies of the United States government. What are your picks for the most useless and worthless, dangerous and worthless agencies that had failed the public?
  • DOD - Department of Defense - budget 700 billion. Openly killing millions and eveiscerating the Constitution of the United States & no sign of letting up any time soon.
  • HHS - Dept. of Health & Human services which is the structure of the FDA, CDC & others with a combined budget of over 900 billion dollars.
  • (DHS) Department of Homeland Security. Branches with the TSA and their spin-off the VIPR. Budget over 100 billion with uneducated and untrained uniformed security guards.
  • (ED) Department of Education. Employees who need it. Budget over 80 billion.
  • Spy Agencies- CIA and NSA - Any hacker of any age can infiltrate them. Most are double agents. Budget over 60 billion dollars.
  • DOJ - Department of Justice. Funny name for a government agency that has more corruption than justice. It includes the FBI allocating over 8 billion to them and over 30 billion to the DOJ. The FBI concentrates its efforts by turning its back on the American public and playing ball with organized crime and terrorist organizations.
  • FEMA Federal Emergency Managment Assn - budget well over 16 billion dollars. Just ask the American people.
  • IRS Internal Revenue service - Everyone's favorite- A agency that is as much needed as AIDS/HIV. Budget well over 15 billions run by Nazis.
  • EPA- Environmental Protection - does more harm than good. Deceptive practices. Budget well over 10 billion.
There has been massive funding of billions to these agencies but have had little or no effect but imposed more corruption and danger to the public then most criminal enterprises. They fund criminal enterprises with full knowledge and have either directly or indirectly killed millions of American lives and threatened our economy and world peace.
Killing those who serve to preserve freedom and eviscerating the constitution in the process. What are you picks? Who do you think is responsible for this massive amount of corruption in this country. What happened to leadership and the consitution of the United States?
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." — Preamble to the Constitution
The Constitution of the United States of America is the supreme law of the United States. Empowered with the sovereign authority of the people by the framers and the consent of the legislatures of the states, it is the source of all government powers, and also provides important limitations on the government that protect the fundamental rights of United States citizens.
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Sorry I'll alert Scott Bernstein for publishing an incomplete list of government corruption. I am certain such a list far exceeds public knowledge and will stay that way until truth is uncovered.
Discussion topic: Should governing institutes be completely transparent and under the scrutiny of public examination? Government, like religion are seemingly above the law and public reproach. Ruled by the people and for the people is a concept that is nothing than a cliche, sounds nice, but without substance.

Does society really want to know the truth about what is happening locally and globally or do we complacently accept information under the scrutiny of government oversight and sanitized information for the good of the people. How much information should and should not be publicized when it affects public opinion and support?
 

Mr. Ed said:
Sorry I'll alert Scott Bernstein for publishing an incomplete list of government corruption. I am certain such a list far exceeds public knowledge and will stay that way until truth is uncovered.
Discussion topic: Should governing institutes be completely transparent and under the scrutiny of public examination? Government, like religion are seemingly above the law and public reproach. Ruled by the people and for the people is a concept that is nothing than a cliche, sounds nice, but without substance.

Does society really want to know the truth about what is happening locally and globally or do we complacently accept information under the scrutiny of government oversight and sanitized information for the good of the people. How much information should and should not be publicized when it affects public opinion and support?
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I agree, but I think it is not fixable due corruption in the House of Reps and the Senate. Sad Sad Sad!!!!
 
Strangely, I worked for every kind of US government-, town, city, county, state, federal. So, I have a hard time accepting the premise that government is inherently evil, and corrupt. Is there corrupt individuals in government? Yes. I live in Pennsylvania; we had more politicians in jail for corruption than all the other states. But the "government" isn't an "it", government is an "us"- just people, like us, with a job. And in government, there is virtually nothing you can do, or don't do, that does not affect others for good or bad.
 
Mr. Ed said:
Sorry I'll alert Scott Bernstein for publishing an incomplete list of government corruption. I am certain such a list far exceeds public knowledge and will stay that way until truth is uncovered.
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No fault of Bernstein, a complete list would take a lot of paper...

I am not sure the word corrupt is quite right. I think of corrupt as criminal, I know some of that probably exists but more common is just agencies and activities that are a waste of money. And some that do more harm than good.
oldaunt said:
The thing about corruption in our government is, you get what you vote for. Vote smarter. Voting party line is just stupid.
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I agree, the blame ultimately falls back to us. However it is a difficult thing and would take a lot of voters paying close attention and persisting in voting for better government. One example I can think of is I knew people who voted for Ronald Reagan mostly because of his promises to reduce government, one specifically was to eliminate the Department of Energy. He tried for a while to do that but gave up or stopped anyway. See REAGAN ADOPTS PLAN TO END ENERGY DEPT. AND SHIFT ITS DUTIES https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/17/...-to-end-energy-dept-and-shift-its-duties.html These agencies have a lot of staying power...
fuzzybuddy said:
have a hard time accepting the premise that government is inherently evil, and corrupt.
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It's not, and I agree most government employees are decent folks. We have to have a government and ours does do some things well. I just think there is a lot of room for improvement.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Strangely, I worked for every kind of US government-, town, city, county, state, federal. So, I have a hard time accepting the premise that government is inherently evil, and corrupt. Is there corrupt individuals in government? Yes. I live in Pennsylvania; we had more politicians in jail for corruption than all the other states. But the "government" isn't an "it", government is an "us"- just people, like us, with a job. And in government, there is virtually nothing you can do, or don't do, that does not affect others for good or bad.
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Good post, I agree.

Alligatorob said:
It's not, and I agree most government employees are decent folks. We have to have a government and ours does do some things well. I just think there is a lot of room for improvement.
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Completely agree.
 
The Federal Government is totally corrupt! The final nail in that coffin happened on January 6th. Couple that with the fact that some people are still in jail that were never charged with anything and have not been allowed in court. Sounds like what happens in Cuba or Russia! Folks we been had! Do your own research. The only freedom left is our freedom of speech...
 
Timewise 60+ said:
The Federal Government is totally corrupt! The final nail in that coffin happened on January 6th. Couple that with the fact that some people are still in jail that were never charged with anything and have not been allowed in court. Sounds like what happens in Cuba or Russia! Folks we been had! Do your own research. The only freedom left is our freedom of speech...
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Um, no. We don't have THAT either.....
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Strangely, I worked for every kind of US government-, town, city, county, state, federal. So, I have a hard time accepting the premise that government is inherently evil, and corrupt. Is there corrupt individuals in government? Yes. I live in Pennsylvania; we had more politicians in jail for corruption than all the other states. But the "government" isn't an "it", government is an "us"- just people, like us, with a job. And in government, there is virtually nothing you can do, or don't do, that does not affect others for good or bad.
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Agree, especially in Luzerne County.
 
Timewise 60+ said:
Check this link out, then do your own research...
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Thanks, I did read both articles and have done my own research. The articles you cite do not say anything I could find to the effect that "some people are still in jail that were never charged with anything and have not been allowed in court". And in my own Google research I could not find anything either, maybe you are better at it than I.

If true this is serious, again can you point to something to support it? Or point me to something I missed. Why do you believe it's true? I'm not trying to argue, just to get to the truth of the matter. If it is true I will be more than disappointed in our system...
 
Alligatorob said:
Is that true? I did not think that could happen under our judicial system... Not unless they are considered enemy combatants or prisoners of war.
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Or so labeled for our convenience of course. Hundred were held at Guantanamo Bay for years and never charged. I think there are still 20 left. The judiciary is corrupt for allowing it to happen in the first place and then for decades after.
 
Nosy Bee-54 said:
Or so labeled for our convenience of course. Hundred were held at Guantanamo Bay for years and never charged. I think there are still 20 left. The judiciary is corrupt for allowing it to happen in the first place and then for decades after.
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I know that is true at Guantanamo Bay, people we believed were truly enemy combatants. Problem is without a territorial based war or a war against some competent government it's hard to know what to do with those people. Not that I think we did the right thing, but that is different from the January 6 thing.

To the best of my knowledge the January 6 people were US citizens acting in the US. We have laws and courts set up to deal with that kind of thing. Have any of the January 6 participants been labeled enemy combatants and held based on that, rather than conventional law? I would hope not.
 
Alligatorob said:
I know that is true at Guantanamo Bay, people we believed were truly enemy combatants. Problem is without a territorial based war or a war against some competent government it's hard to know what to do with those people. Not that I think we did the right thing, but that is different from the January 6 thing.

To the best of my knowledge the January 6 people were US citizens acting in the US. We have laws and courts set up to deal with that kind of thing. Have any of the January 6 participants been labeled enemy combatants and held based on that, rather than conventional law? I would hope not.
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We have laws to deal with illegal imigration too, but no one is enforcing any of them.
 
Timewise 60+ said:
The Federal Government is totally corrupt! The final nail in that coffin happened on January 6th. Couple that with the fact that some people are still in jail that were never charged with anything and have not been allowed in court. Sounds like what happens in Cuba or Russia! Folks we been had! Do your own research. The only freedom left is our freedom of speech...
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Factually not true. It is against our legal laws of accountability to hold a person over 72 hours without charging them with a misdemeanor or crime. So unless you can confirm your statements with official documents and statements from press, confirmed, this is more baseless conspiracy theories to rile folks up!
It is a shame that citizens don't recognize these false accusations.
 

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oldaunt said:
We have laws to deal with illegal imigration too, but no one is enforcing any of them.
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Oh, they are being enforced, but not well enough to fix the problem. See for example: FY 2022 Seeing Rapid Increase in Immigration Court Completions https://trac.syr.edu/reports/695/

However that is different, so far as I know the people who participated in the January 6 thing were US citizens with different rights from an illegal immigrant. As I understand it anyone being held as an illegal immigrant can end it, if they go back to their home country.
 

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