My plan to help fix [some of] America

[roberth]

If the federal government wasn't regulating the environment, the private industry (first) and State and local governments (secondarily) would have to. That would mean more jobs for this specific skill set being created for those experienced folks from the former-EPA to compete for.

That is how it should be. People would be free to pick a state that best fits their business. The national EPA should be eliminated completely.

The tighter restrictions on welfare recipients would reduce the program by such a large margin, in such a short amount of time, it could afford to reallocate current employees to do the jobs of managing the restrictions. Sure, there would be some growing pain to begin with, but it would sort itself out in short order. I'm not a fan of drug screening; I think that is an unconstitutional invasion of individual liberty, regardless of the circumstances. The private sector retains the right to drug test employees; if welfare recipients are adhering to the tighter restrictions of actively seeking gainful employment, the private sector's right to drug test will squash most of the drug use by those on the dole.

But how many life-long welfare maggots will private enterprise want to hire. I'm sure some would work out but most would starve to death in the gutter...and rightly so.

[roberth]

One more thing. If we start closing Federal departments those people are going to need someplace else to work, we can't have them going on unemployment for 99 weeks.

Private enterprise will have to be up and running prior to any cuts in the Federal government.