Just Shut "The Chuck" Up

Chuck "E Cheese" Schumer has called for an "import czar" in light of the wave of tainted goods entering the US food supply.


Chuck has always been a fan of expanding the bloated bureaucracy in Washington. Never mind that customs, the FDA, and four other already existing bureaucracies already control everything imported into the US.


During one of his latest whiney press conferences Schumer unveiled his latest brain storm is the Import Czar. In case you missed it:


"There are more than a half dozen federal agencies responsible for monitoring, testing, and blocking dangerous or tainted shipments," the Schumer statement said. "This maze includes cabinet level departments, independent agencies and administrations within executive agencies, all operating with different regula- tions, rules and protocols."


So rather than address the subject and appoint a lead organization to help coordinate and assign areas of responsibility he wants to appoint an Import Czar. And along with the Czar comes his administrative staff and the government continues its inexhorable growth at the expense of the taxpayers.

These federal "czars" have been the ultimate in wastes of time and money and have never addressed or solved any of the problems they have been "empowered" to handle. The key being the word empower.

• Drug Czar: has no real authority and has accomplished nothing
  
• AIDS Czar: has no real authority and has acomplished nothing
  
• War Czar: has no real authority and will accomplish nothing
  
• Import Czar: need i continue?
  

How can anyone suggest with a straight face that Washington doesn't have enough bureaucrats already?

Perhaps the problem is that there is too much bureaucracy! The government is so large it is unable to handle even the most perfunctory tasks. Clinton/Gore ran on the promise to reinvent government, and they did, they made it larger and it still doesn't work. Maybe someone needs to reinvent government by making it smaller and more efficient.

But I guarantee you Chuck Schumer will not be that person!