Bureaucratic Natures

I feel that the while many of the government agencies serve a critical purpose, perhaps one of the most important is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In a time of increasing health problems such as diabetes and obesity, as well as new (and old) diseases like the swine flu and malaria still circulating the globe, the CDC is there to help provide and promote new information about all sorts of medical problems, as well as suggest possible solutions or point out signs and symptoms of when you should probably go see a doctor. It is a very helpful tool for people who do not understand certain health risks that can be associated with certain activities, and can help guide them in their decision making in either decreasing or preventing their possibility of having a certain medical problem, or can also be used to help guide them through fixing a medical problem or how to live with it.

In relation to the least needed federal agency that the government can do without, I would have to suggest in eliminating the Voice of America, which is responsible for broadcasting news about the United States to the people abroad. While this is all hunky dory, I feel that with the technology today that even if the people abroad were remotely interested in the daily affairs that are going on in the U.S. that they will simply go to Google news, or any news source on the internet, which would mean that the elimination of the Voice of America agency would have little impact.

It seems like many of the agencies listed have little sub-agencies that cover just about anything that the government can cover, which also means that I cannot really think of any agency at the moment that could be created.

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