Today’s question comes from Rise Up…If the government fell and you could raid the files/pictures/items of 2 agencies, which would they be? SSS gets to answer twice.
PS I know the picture is too big, there’s too damn many to fit on the screen!
Question of the Day, Sep 30
NSA.
No real need to go anywhere than there, everything else plus some will be found among their files and such.
Thanks for posing my question, Mike. Here’s my choices:
1) NASA (all those pictures they won’t show us)
2) Smithsonian Museum (all those artifacts and discoveries they’ve keep hidden).
CIA + DOD
But, just think of the billion pages to read
IRS- everyone’s tax returns for all time
FBI- must-have photos in those files
First one is easy – DARPA.
The second one is harder. Why would I want a billion files of old tax returns? Or why would I want access to the info the NSA has unless it was to destroy it. Maybe, I would just take Fort Knox and then I could find out if there is really any gold in the vaults.
SEC and Federal Reserve to prove we were right all along
Area 51….to have a talk with those captive aliens.
The Pentagon….to watch what hit the place on 9/11.
BUCKHED says: The Pentagon….to watch what hit the place on 9/11.
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Easy answer to this: cruise missile. aviation experts say an airliner could not have flown at that low altitude and speed and all the crazy course deviations required to hit the building.
B ring at the pentagon and everything in it.
NSA AND IRS
@Thaisleeze: The Federal Reserve is not really Federal, so I’m not sure if they count.
“SSS gets to answer twice.”
—-Back in PA Mike
Thank you. The runaway winner is the EPA. Second place goes to the Department of Education. See below for my second answer.
The Office of Naval Intelligence and the FBI.
Definitely CIA & NASA.
Whoever keeps the sealed documents.
I don’t know about you, but it irks me to see all these “official seals” for upmteen government agencies that lord over the gentry. I know this is off-question, but If it were up to me I’d do away with ALL of them.
If I had to choose one it would be the NSA because the dirt on all the rest and more are there.
@SSS Why Dept of Education?
Oh and the Army’s Department Of Redundancy Department.
I’ve got about 20 good years of life left if I’m lucky. If the govt fell I’d be too busy either enjoying my restored liberty of still fighting for it. They could keep their govt files.
Maggie says:
“@SSS Why Dept of Education?”
Good question. The Department of Education became a separate executive agency in the Carter administration, around 1977 or so, with an annual budget of $400 million. At that time, accepted performance metrics (graduation rates, SAT scores, etc) for K-12 were steadily climbing. For example, the average high graduation rate for the entire U.S. was over 75%.
Guess what? That’s the HIGHEST the graduation rate has been since then. It’s been all downhill to the point where, for example, the graduation rate in Detroit is 25%. Well, isn’t that special? And in most major cities, it’s below 50%. SAT/ACT scores took the same path downhill. Oh, the annual budget for the Department of Education is now over $80 billion, with a b.
Can you spell F-A-I-L? I say deep-six that whole department and get the public education system back to where it belongs, at the state (public universities) and local (K-12) levels.
SSS, the question is regards to viewing the files/photos/items of an agency, not whether an agency should be scraped or discontinued (perhaps you misunderstood the question of the day?). Or do you suggest there are documents at Dept. of Education that suggest a conspiracy to dumb-down Americans?
DOE and DIA.
DARPA and NSA…with those two you could get rid of all the rest.
1 DARPA – and more specifically, although not actually a government agency although it might as well be, The Lockheed Skunk Works.
2 Pentagon or the CIA can’t decide between the two.
“SSS, the question is regards to viewing the files/photos/items of an agency, not whether an agency should be scraped or discontinued (perhaps you misunderstood the question of the day?).”
—-Rise Up
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“SSS, the question is regards to viewing the files/photos/items of an agency, not whether an agency should be scraped or discontinued (perhaps you misunderstood the question of the day?).”
—-Rise Up
The question was prefaced by “if the government fell,” dumbass. That means EVERYTHING collapsed, so everything is open to inspection, including anything at the EPA and the Dept of Education. I stand by my answer.
“Or do you suggest there are documents at Dept. of Education that suggest a conspiracy to dumb-down Americans?”
—-Rise Up
No. I suggest a totally incompetent bureaucracy which has an overwhelming number of documents to prove its failures and incompetency. WTF is up with your conspiracy bullshit? Can’t you just accept the fact that the Department of Education is about as useful as tits on a boar hog? Or is that beyond your comprehension?
Maybe there’s a different sort of conspiracy:
Conquest’s Third Law
SSS, pardon me but you are the dumbass. You replied back to Maggie’s “Why” question with statistics about the Dept of Education but never said why/what you wanted to see/find there until I pressed you for it.
Are all government retirees that obscure? Or is it a lack of reading comprehension on your part?