Lack of federal standards would allow backwater dump states like Alabama, Kentucky, or Louisiana to stop teaching things like evolution, natural selection, various works of classical literature for whatever idiotic reasoning, algebra because some crackpots thing its evil, or what have you. If anything, the fed should have more control on basic curriculum so a high school grad in Kentucky is on the same level as one in California.
Vet Affairs could be eaten up by defense. Outside of that, the only real wasteful one is homeland security since it still doesn't fix the massive amounts of overlap between Military, Justice, and several other departments. |