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Eighty-seven federal agencies and offices with 100,000 workers keep the private sector behaving as Big Brother sees fit. The most important 30 of these outfits have combined operating expenses of $2.9 billion a year. The older agencies???including the Interstate Commerce Commission (founded in 1887), the Federal Trade Commission (1914), the Food and Drug Administration (1931), the Civil Aeronautics Board (1938)?impose limitations on particular industries. The newer agencies???the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1964), the Environmental Protection Agency (1970), OSHA (1970), the Consumer Product Safety Commission (1972)?issue orders to institutions across the board. Their...
...been so great that even conservative businessmen, who usually complain about too much federal interference, are pleading for Government help in combatting their onslaught. The chances are that they will get it; the Government has lately begun to act as if "conglomeritis" is a virulent disease. Half a dozen agencies???including the Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission?have begun investigations of the phenomenon. They are worried that the takeover companies may be creating too much concentration of economic power, that some of them have unsound financing and inadequate management, and that they...
...Census. Whereas most European states have centralized forces with uniform, nationwide standards, the U.S. has 40,000 separate law-enforcement agencies???with 40,000 different codes, 40,000 different policies, and 40,000 different ideas as to how the peace should be maintained. Los Angeles County has 50 police forces, including the L.A.P.D. Educational qualifications range from nonexistent to four years of college. Oddly enough, almost no force gives even a rudimentary psychological exam ?surely an essential requirement for one of the most sensitive of all occupations. Many suburbs and small cities attempt to solve serious crimes with techniques...
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