Site best viewed on a computer screen - not optimized for cell phones

50 most recent articles updated on this Web-Site: BLOG (Web-Log) Page

Cut DOI (Department Of Interior) with a meat axe.

We can easily eliminate ninety percent of Interior bureaucracy when we cut DOI. 

Vic Biorseth, OWM; Saturday, October 12, 2013
http://www.CatholicAmericanThinker.com

And better than 90% of our Department Of the Interior is out of scope, extra-Constitutional and unnecessary.  There is redundancy and duplication of effort with other federal level bureaus and departments, and wide areas of operation that would be better handled by states, Indian Reservations, local governments or the private sector. 

First, to refresh our memories on how America works under the Constitution, let us recall Article I Section 1 of our Constitution:

Section. 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Note that the first word in that sentence is "All".  That means, no exceptions.  No federal level laws may originate or be created other than by act of Congress. 

Second, let us call to mind Article I Section 8 of our Constitution, which gives us the limited and enumerated legislative powers of our Congress - the actual scope and legislative limits set by the Constitution on the federal government.  It says, to Senators and to Representatives, beyond these limits you may not go. 

Keeping our Constitutional limitations in mind, lets look at the organization of our Department of the Interior. 

  • Secretary of the Interior
  • Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management, and Budget
  • Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Safety, Resource Protection and Emergency Services (DAS-PRE) Office of Law Enforcement and Security (OLES)Office of Emergency Management (OEM)Office of the Inspector General (OIG)
  • Bureau of Indian Affairs
  • Bureau of Land Management
  • Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement
  • Bureau of Reclamation
  • Federal Executive Boards
  • Interior Museum
  • National Park Service
  • Office of Insular Affairs
  • Office of Surface Mining
  • United States Fish and Wildlife Service
  • United States Geological Survey

Regarding the Bureau of Indian Affairs:  American Indians should not need to be "taken care of" by any government bureaucracy.  Reservations should be turned into more autonomous entities, like States, with their own tribal governments exercising their own legislating and taxing authority. They could model their governments after the existing States, with the development of their own Constitutions, recognizing that they are still within the boundaries of States, of which they are citizens.  If they were wise, they would choose the Fair Tax over all other forms of taxation within the Reservations. 

Existing federal government licensing, leasing and royalty arrangements with private mining, drilling, timber harvesting, etc., on Reservation land, should be turned over to tribal governments on the reservations.  The Indians should be able to run the operations themselves, or license and lease the operations to private industry and collect royalties, at their option.  Indian trust lands, resources, assets and anything else held in trust should be turned over to the tribal governments. 

The bureau should be shut down as soon as practicality allows. 

Regarding the Bureau of Land Management:  The "Public Lands" owned by the federal government should be freely granted, given and deeded to the States and/or Indian Reservations in which it rests.  The "Subsurface Mineral Estate" underlying federal, state and private lands should be freely granted, given and deeded to the states, reservations and private owners, within whose boundaries it rests. 

The only lands the federal government should retain would be those lands needed and currently employed for the purposes of military bases, fascilities and live-fire ranges.  Recreational activities currently regulated by the bureau could and should be regulated by the states and/or reservations.  Similarly, activities such as logging, mining, fracking, etc., would be better managed by state and reservation government than by the the federal government. 

BLM Office of Law Enforcement and Security is absolutely unnecessary.  State, reservation and local governments can handle their own law enforcement and security.  

If the states and/or reservations want to do it, they can continue to fund "renewable energy" projects like wind farms and biodegradable fuels at their own expense, and risk, win lose or draw. 

Regarding the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement:  Oil, natural gas and other minerals available beneath the waters of the continental shelf, and any waters within or surrounding America should be freely granted, given and deeded to the closest states within a 50 mile limit boundary around America.  Only those ocean waters outside the 50 mile boundary should remain under the jurisdiction of BOEMRE.  Licensing, leasing, enforcing and environmental protection authority for production of oil, natural gas and other minerals within the 50 mile limit should be turned over to the states. 

Unemployed BOEMRE workers could apply for similar jobs with the states they have been empoverishing. 

Regarding the Bureau of Reclamation:  Federally constructed and maintained dams and hydro-electric plants should be freely granted, given and deeded to state and/or reservation governments. 

Unemployed bureau workers could apply for similar jobs with the states or reservations. 

Regarding the Federal Executive Boards:  There is no excuse for the existence of this board.  It is supposed to coordinate various outside Washington bureaucratic activities and increase efficiency.  Bureaucracies government agencies are almost definitively inefficient; making a bureaucracy to increase the efficiency of other bureaucracies is just an exercise in bureaucratic stupidity. 

Regarding the Interior Museum:  The museum should be privatized or incorporated into the Smithsonian. 

Regarding the National Park Service:  All national parks should be freely granted, given and deeded to the states and/or Indian reservations in which they are located.  There is nothing in Article 1 section 8 about any parks; President Theodore Roosevelt was way out of bounds here, regardless of any emotional attachments and heartfelt responsibility for majestic and scenic areas.  The states, reservations and localities are far better suited to caring for, preserving and running natural treasures and parklands that exist within their own domains. 

Any unemployed federal rangers or other federal employees may apply for similar jobs with the states or reservations. 

Regarding the Office of Insular Affairs:  This is the office that "administers" Island possessions such as American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, US Virgin Islands, etc. 

Regarding the Office of Surface Mining:  Pursuant to the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, a per ton fee is collected from miners ostensibly to fund a trust that finances the following:

  1. Setting environmental standards;
  2. Regulation of active mines;
  3. Reclamation of lands damaged by surface mining and reclamation of abandoned mines;
  4. Providing mining with technical assistance, training and the development of new mining technologies.
  5. Miniimizing environmental impact. 

All of these are areas not only out of scope and outside the Constitutional limitations of the federal government, but they are beyond the competence level of the federal government to properly accomplish.  This office should be closed and the responsibilities returned to where they originated, which would be the states, reservations, localities and private ownership where the mines reside, whether operational or closed.  Local governments are more logically disposed to reclaim or restore previously mined lands than Washington DC, and they are more logically disposed to make their own regulations and operational guidelines than the federal government, win lose or draw. 

Regarding the United States Fish and Wildlife Service:  If fish, wildlife and habitat need to be "managed" at all, they do not need to be managed from Washington DC.  The United States, individually, and the Indian Reservations are far better qualified and more properly inclined to properly manage their own fish, wildlife and habitat without outside assistance.  Similarly, the States and the Reservations have no need for any federal law enforcement agencies to enforce fish, wildlife and habitat laws in local areas.  That's what local law enforcement and fish and game wardens are for. 

Local governments can invent their own bogus endangered species lists and micro-manage their citizenry accordingly, and can "reclaim" desert areas as "wetlands" prohibiting or controlling citizen use of them, at their own political risk, win lose or draw. 

This service should be shut down. 

Regarding the United States Geological Survey:  The mission of this bureaucracy was accomplished after the Louisiana Purchase.  It has no further reason to exist, and should be shut down. 

How do you just shut down all these sub-bureaucracies and eliminate the legislated laws or valid regulations that created them?

The same way the Supreme Court did in Maybury v. Madison - by declaring it null, void, and no law, because it is a violation of the Constitution that the Congress, the President and the Court are all sworn to uphold and protect.  If the Court can do it, so can the Presidency, and so can the Congress.  There is nothing special about the Court in regards to guardianship of the Constitution.  We have three co-equal branches of government; one to legislate, one to execute and one to adjudicate.  None of them have any superior interpretive authority over the Constitution.  All are sworn in their oaths of office to uphold and defend the Constitution as written.  Here's what Jefferson thought about it:

"The Constitution... meant that its coordinate branches should be checks on each other. But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch." --Thomas Jefferson

But it's never been done that way, you say.  Well, neither was Judicial Review ever done by the Court before Maybury v. Madison.  That's what made it a legal precedent.  There is absolutely no reason that the Presidency and the Congress, whether acting together or separately, could not establish the exact same precedent, of Congressional Review and/or Presidential Review, in setting aside un-Constitutional law as no law, from that day forward. 

All that would be required would be a Congress and/or a President with the love of Constitution and the nerve to do it. 

A very tall order, these days. 



=====

Sarcastic Acronym Hover-Link Footnotes: For the convenience of those readers using devices that lack a mouse, these footnotes are provided for all webpages, in case any webpage contains any hover-links. (If you don't have a mouse, you can't "hover" it over a link without clicking just to see the simple acronym interpretation. Click any footnote link to see the acronym and a detailed explanation.)

SLIMC1 Secularist Liberal Intellectual Media Complex
GESGOEAEOT2 Gradually, Ever So Gradually, Over Eons And Eons Of Time
PEWAG3 Punctuated Equilibrium's Wild-Assed Guess
TTRSTF4 Them There Real Scientifical-Type Fellers
TTRSPTF5 Them There Real Smart Perfesser-Type Fellers
TTRSJTF6 Them There Real Smart Journalistical-Type Fellers
SNRTACBT7 Surely No Right Thinking Adult Could Believe Today
STNSEACPB8 Surely Today No Serious Educated Adult Could Possibly Believe
WDN9 We Don't Know
BMDFP10 Baboons, Mongrel Dogs, Filthy Pigs and ...
HBAACOTE11 Human Beings Are A Cancer On The Earth
ACLU12 Anti-Christian Litigation Union
FLORMPORIF13 Flagrant Liar, Or, Mindless Parrot, Or, Innocent Fool
MEJTML14 Marxist Ends-Justify-The-Means Liar
IEJTML15 Islamic Ends-Ends-Justify-The-Means Liar
MPAV16 Marxist Principles And Values
WBESSWG17 Wise, Benign, Elite, Super-Scientific World Governance
TRMITM18 The Reason Man's In This Mess
IYI19 Intellectual Yet Idiotic
TTRSCBTF20 Them There Real Smart Catholic Bishop Type Fellers
IACMPVND21 Illegal-Alien-Criminal Marxocrat-Party-Voting Nation-Destroyers
PEJTML22 Palestinian Ends-Justify-The-Means Liar
PSYOP23 "Psychological Operation" Mind Trick
CDC24 Covid Developmentally Challenged

Reference Material

[All Web Pages listed in Site Map by date-of-publication;
oldest at the top, newest at the bottom of the list.]

Culture=Religion+Politics;  Who Are We?  Vic Biorseth

The Brilliantly Conceived Organization of the USA;  Vic Biorseth

Live Interviews

Return to the BLOG page

Return to the HOME PAGE

Subscribe to our Free E-Zine News Letter

Respond to This Article Below The Last Comment

Comment

Respond to this WebPage immediately below the last comment.

Or,

Publish your own whole new Article from right here.  

Comments

Respond to this WebPage immediately below the last comment.
Or,
Publish your own whole new Article from right here.  

Date:  Tue Oct 15 23:48:09 2013
From:  Alice M.
Email:   
Location:  Spokane
Comment: 

What qualifies you to decide what's constitutional and what's not constitutional?

Date:  Wed Oct 16 05:28:02 2013
From:  Vic Biorseth
Comment:  

The exact same two things that qualified Abraham Lincoln (who never went to law school) to practice law:

  1. I read, write and speak English fluently.
  2. The Constitution is written down in English.

Regards,

Vic

Date:   Wed  Oct 29 2014
From:  Vic Biorseth
Comment:  

Changes pursuant to changing the website URL and name from 
Thinking Catholic Strategic Center to
Catholic American Thinker.

Pulled the trigger on the 301 MOVE IT option June 1, 2014. Working my way through all the webpages.  . 

Regards,

Vic

Language and Tone Statement

Please note the language and tone of this monitored Website. This is not the place to just stack up vulgar one-liners and crude rejoinders.  While you may support, oppose or introduce any position or argument, submissions must meet our high Roman Catholic and Constitutional American standards of Truth, logical rigor and civil discourse.  We will not participate in merely trading insults, nor will we tolerate participants merely trading insults.  Participants should not be thin-skinned or over sensitive to criticism, but should be prepared to defend their arguments when challenged.  If you don’t really have a coherent argument or counter-argument of your own, sit down and don’t embarrass yourself. Nonsensical, obscene, blindly & doggedly anti-Catholic, anti-American, immoral or merely insulting submissions will not be published here.  If you have something serious to contribute to the conversation, be prepared to back it up, keep it clean, keep it civil, and it will be published.  We humbly apologize to all religious conservative thinkers for the need to even say these things, but the Hard Left is what it always was, the New Leftist Liberals are what they are, and the Internet is what it is. 

"Clickbait" advertising links are not acceptable for posting here. 

If you fear intolerant Leftist repercussions, do not use your real name and do not include email or any identifying information.  Elitist Culturally Marxist Pure Authoritarians cannot and will not tolerate your freedom of speech or any opposition to their rigid authoritarian, anti-equality, anti-life, anti-liberty, anti-property, hedonistic, anti-Constitution, pro-Marxist, pro-Islam, anti-Catholic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, anti-male, sexist, pro-homosexual, anti-heterosexual, anti-white, racist, anti-Western, anti-American, Globalist, anti-Nation, blatantly immoral, totally intolerant and bigoted point of view. 

ADD COMMENT
Please note that all fields followed by an asterisk must be filled in.

Please enter the word that you see below.

  


Copyrighted Material

Send Your Message To Trump 45

Current Trump 'Tweets' Messages to We The People

Conservative Political Action Conferences (CPAC)
Lay and clerical Catholic Resistance to the Evil Takeover of the Church

Solopreneur Opportunity Links, for a
Solo Build It WebSite

Send this Strong Letter To Your Bishop and then Stand Your Ground


COALITION  ECCLESIA  DEI

Promoting the Traditional Latin Mass

as sanctioned by Summorum Pontificum


IDvolution: Where faith and reason intersect

Sacrificate sacrificium justitiae, et sperate in Domino

Priestly Order of St. Peter
450 Vernard Rd.
South Abington TWP, PA 18411

https://fssp.com
Phone (570)842-4000
Fax (570)319-9770


WHISTLEBLOWERS WELCOME!


Help Us Expose Corruption

The Religion Of Peace

God Will Be Heard

Darwinism is both a foundaitonal dogma and a Denomination of ScientismThe False Religion of Scientism
Meet Your Host

Never be lukewarm.
Life itself demands passion.
He who is indifferent to God has already forfeited his soul.
He who is indifferent to politics has already forfeited his liberty.
In America, religion is not mere window dressing and citizenship is not a spectator sport.
Do not allow our common destiny as a whole people to just happen without your input. 
Get in the fight! Engage the Enemy!
Seek the Truth; find the Way; live the Life; please God, and live forever.

All Published Articles
By Publication Date

Site Search

Please Help CatholicAmericanThinker stay on the Internet and grow

Keep This Website Going

Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat. How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it! Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 
Jesus Christ; Matt 7:13-15

The best kept secret in Dayton Ohio: The Traditional Latin Mass. This is Holy Family Church

Related WebPages

The Purpose for this grouping of links is to show, first, the unconstitutional bureaucracies that need to be cut, and second, to highlight ideas toward restoring America toward her original Constitutional design.

The Cut The Spending Pages
Most of this site describes what is wrong; this one describes what to do about it.  If we don't get rid of the extra-Constitutional entities we are over-paying for they will eventually economically strangle us to death as a nation. 

Shut down unneeded bureaucracy, for budget’s sake. In the name of fiscal sanity, we need to shut down unneeded bureaucracy.

Cut USDA budget, in whole or in part. Is agriculture the constitutional business of the federal government?

Department of Commerce: Cut DOC budget, with a meat axe. Argument to cut DOC; in times like these, no bureaucracy is sacred.

Dept of Defense: Budget cuts here need to be of the scalpel variety. Defense cuts need to be done very carefully lest we harm national security.

Cut the ED budget, in whole. Is education the constitutional business of the federal government?

Argument against Public Education, which is, in fact, Government Indoctrination. Public Education equals State Indoctrination, pure and simple. Education is beyond the scope of government and not what our government is constituted to do. 

Cut DOE budget, with a meat axe. Other than nuclear, how is any energy source the business of federal government?

Cut HHS budget, completely. How, exactly, is any Health and/or Human Services the Constitutional business of federal government?

Cut Social Security: Elimination of America’s Largest Budget Expenditure. How to Cut Social Security and begin the return to fiscal sanity.

Cut DHS budget, completely. Homeland Security is the proper domain of Defense, CIA and FBI. We should cut DHS completely.

Cut HUD budget, completely. How, exactly, is Housing or Urban Development the Constitutional business of federal government?

At this moment in time, most Constitutionalists would love to kill the IRS. How do you Kill the IRS? Fast-track and pass the Fair Tax. Very simple; nothing to it. 

Cut DOJ budget, with a paring knife, but, radically. We need to cut DOJ unnecessary and unrelated functions to streamline the function of justice.

Cut DOL, completely. The Dept of Labor has no Constitutional reason to exist. We should cut DOL, which, like organized labor itself, was born of Marx's Communist Manifesto.

Cut EPA, completely. EPA has no Constitutional reason to exist. How, exactly, are the environment or natural resources the Constitutional business of the Federal Government?

Cut DOS (State Departement) budget excess fat. Cut DOS unnecessary functions and get back to State business.

Cut DOI (Department Of Interior) with a meat axe. We can eliminate ninety percent of Interior bureaucracy when we cut DOI. 

Restoring our Treasury Department to its original purpose for being. On restoring our Treasury from Fascist Crony Capitalism, i.e., the Fed.

If we really need to cut spending, we should cut DOT with a meat axe. We should cut DOT and all these other bureaucracies that are regulating us to death.

Cut bureaucracy, but leave VA alone. In fact, we should build up the VA. In the aftermath of Marxocrat and Republicrat cuts to defense, both defense and the VA need new attention.

Nito Gnoci

The Anti-Christians Part I

The Anti-Christians Part II

The Anti-Christians Part III

The Anti-Christians Part IV

Linda Kimball

What is Evil? Man-made alternative realities

Absolute Nothingness and Non-Self: The Reigning Worldview of Global Power Elites and Western Ruling Classes

The Evil Eye Of Envy: Why Being ‘White’ Is Offensive To Some People. No Vice Worse Than Envy

Why Transgenderism Is Being Forced Upon America and Our Children. The Divine Androgyne

Trotsky's Permanent Revolution From Hell In America. The Soviet System in America

Acts 17:18-19-modern pagan and pantheist antithesis of the Word of God Ecclesiates 1:9 "What has been is what will be.."

Utopianism. Progressive Utopian Cultural Marxism Poisoning Minds, Churches, Schools, Politics

Evolutionary Theism Implies That Christ is Wrong About Creation. "For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?" John 5:46-47

Isaiah 57 revisited: America's progressive pagan elites. Staring into the Abyss

The Connection Between Baphomet and Why Researchers Are Creating Interspecies Embryos. 2 Corinthians 10:5

Modernist Christians in a Man-Centered Universe. Scientific Neutrality and Biblical Deconstruction

"We belong to the Church militant; and She is militant because on earth the powers of darkness are ever restless to encompass Her destruction. Not only in the far-off centuries of the early Church, but down through the ages and in this our day, the enemies of God and Christian civilization make bold to attack the Creator’s supreme dominion and sacrosanct human rights.”--Pope Pius XII

"It is not lawful to take the things of others to give to the poor.  It is a sin worthy of punishment, not an act deserving a reward, to give away what belongs to others."--St. Francis of Assisi

Traditional Latin Tridentine Mass, offered at Assumption Grotto Church in Detroit, Michigan. Our deepest prayer, our highest form of worship, and the way God should be treated.Assumption Grotto Church in Detroit, MI

Find a Latin Mass

Truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.—Winston Churchill

Note the Military Assault Rifle common to the American Founding Era.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.—Ayn Rand

Atheist Genesis:

In the beginning there was nothing, and nothing happened to nothing.
And then nothing accidentally exploded and created everything.
And then some bits of everything accidentally encountered other bits of everything and formed some new kinds of everything.
And then some bits of everything accidentally arranged themselves into self-replicating bits of everything.
And then some self-replicating bits of everything accidentally arranged themselves into dinosaurs.
See?

(See The Darwinism Pages)

If you can't find the page you're looking for, try the
SITE MAP.