{"id":338365,"date":"2017-04-14T09:57:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T01:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1476820"},"modified":"2017-04-14T09:57:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T01:57:29","slug":"vote-now-to-eliminate-your-favorite-government-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/vote-now-to-eliminate-your-favorite-government-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote now to eliminate your favorite government agency!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/execc81cution_de_marie_antoinette_le_16_octobre_1793-e1492125699842.jpg?w=738\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>For every bad idea, there\u2019s a crowdsourcing campaign with a soapbox and a big-ass megaphone, ready to make it even worse.<\/p>\n<p>Interested? In\u00a0case you missed it, it\u2019s not too late to vote to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/reorganizing-the-executive-branch\">shake up the executive branch<\/a> \u2014 surely the number one priority of every red-blooded American in these mostly <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/u-s-may-launch-strike-if-north-korea-reaches-nuclear-n746366\">ho-hum<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/13\/world\/asia\/moab-mother-of-all-bombs-afghanistan.html\">sleepy times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As the\u00a0giant stack of paper behind Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney is meant to express, the government is a mess, full of messy paper! Again, the Trump administration <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/tech\/Sean-Spicer-Stacks-Papers-Meme-43278559\">invokes\u00a0paper<\/a> to convey a sense of vast waste and establishment\u00a0madness. Just look at it! Disgusting.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube c5\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player c4\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N4qIRrTA_pM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump calls it draining the swamp,\u201d Mulvaney explains, enthusiastically lit by an otherworldly glow. \u201cWhat it really means is making the government more accountable to you, more effective, and more efficient, and we can\u2019t do that without your help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/reorganizing-the-executive-branch\">questionnaire<\/a> only offers two proper questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1) What agency would you like to reform?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2) What agency would you like to eliminate?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Got an idea for a new agency? Maybe a <em>new<\/em> agency tasked with getting rid of old agencies? Well, that\u2019s too bad, you\u2019ll have to write that in.<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t worry, if you\u2019re gunning to shred the federal government into so much bureaucratic confetti, you\u2019ve got options. Just select what you want to see go in a drop-down menu of cabinet agencies. You can even select-all!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1476847 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/screen-shot-2017-04-13-at-6-12-07-pm.png?w=680&#038;h=433\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/screen-shot-2017-04-13-at-6-12-07-pm.png?w=680&#038;h=433 680w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/screen-shot-2017-04-13-at-6-12-07-pm.png?w=150&#038;h=95 150w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/screen-shot-2017-04-13-at-6-12-07-pm.png?w=300&#038;h=191 300w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/screen-shot-2017-04-13-at-6-12-07-pm.png?w=768&#038;h=488 768w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/screen-shot-2017-04-13-at-6-12-07-pm.png 1132w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Remarkably, the drop-down even includes Trump administration faves like entire Department of Defense (sayonara Air Force!!), the Executive Office of the President (uh?) and the probably inconsequential State Department, reportedly already doing <em>whatever<\/em> it does\u00a0with a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2017\/03\/state-department-trump\/517965\/\">skeleton crew<\/a>. Appetite for annihilation not quite sated? An additional menu lets you select such hangers-on as the United States Postal Service and NASA.<\/p>\n<p>What will become of these votes is anyone\u2019s guess, but we can only hope it results in a reality TV-style event at which the full staff of the most hated agency drops through a trapdoor, never to be seen again. Really, that\u00a0would only be a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/01\/31\/politics\/donald-trump-supreme-court-announcement\/\">mild if grisly departure<\/a> from the made-for-TV announcement of Neil Gorsuch.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget to vote one agency out of the Beltway by June 12! You can even vote to eliminate the office that brought you the vote, which seems like it would either nullify the results altogether or create a rift in the federal space-time continuum through which more agencies could slip in undetected. May the odds be ever in your favor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1476848 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/screen-shot-2017-04-13-at-6-17-32-pm.png?w=680&#038;h=159\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/screen-shot-2017-04-13-at-6-17-32-pm.png?w=680&#038;h=159 680w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/screen-shot-2017-04-13-at-6-17-32-pm.png?w=150&#038;h=35 150w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/screen-shot-2017-04-13-at-6-17-32-pm.png?w=300&#038;h=70 300w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/screen-shot-2017-04-13-at-6-17-32-pm.png?w=768&#038;h=180 768w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/screen-shot-2017-04-13-at-6-17-32-pm.png 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><small>Featured Image: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/execc81cution_de_marie_antoinette_le_16_octobre_1793-e1492125699842.jpg?w=680\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/execc81cution_de_marie_antoinette_le_16_octobre_1793-e1492125699842.jpg?w=680 680w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/execc81cution_de_marie_antoinette_le_16_octobre_1793-e1492125699842.jpg?w=1360 1360w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/execc81cution_de_marie_antoinette_le_16_octobre_1793-e1492125699842.jpg?w=150 150w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/execc81cution_de_marie_antoinette_le_16_octobre_1793-e1492125699842.jpg?w=300 300w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/execc81cution_de_marie_antoinette_le_16_octobre_1793-e1492125699842.jpg?w=768 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/>&nbsp;For every bad idea, there&#8217;s a crowdsourcing campaign with a soapbox and a big-ass megaphone, ready to make it even worse. Interested? In\u00a0case you missed it, it&#8217;s not too late to vote to shake up the executive branch &#8212; surely the number one priority of every red-blooded American in these mostly ho-hum, sleepy times. 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