The ‘deep state’ problem

There are a lot of things that the federal government does. Most of them it does poorly.

When you call the Social Security Administration, you expect to be on hold for a long time, and you can barely get an appointment in a timely manner. Medicare, Medicaid, and other welfare and entitlement programs are rife with fraud. Health agencies have spent taxpayer funds to torture puppies, and the Department of Education is incapable of competently rolling out an application that millions of people rely on for financial aid. That is just to name a few.

But while the sprawling list of federal agencies does little effectively when it comes to the things we need from them, they excel at two things: creating and keeping cumbersome bureaucratic

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