The Jumbled Mess that Keeps Us Free

There is a truth about the US government that is almost never flat out stated, but spawns much of the political debate in this country. The government beurocracy is a giant jumbled mess. There are 11 different government organizations for everything. Why not have a Department of Health that covers all health related tasks, eliminate the CDC, the FDA and others. The reason for this is our country has been rather successfully run for over 200 years, and first off, there were some things they didn't think of 200+ years ago, and also, times have changed. Our governments success has discouraged anyone from making widespread changes, so when a new task pops up, one of several things happens. Sometimes, an existing organization takes over, maybe not the organization that SHOULD take over, but one of them. (Note the Department of Energy's involvement in Biomedical projects) Other times, it simply doesn't get done. On occaision, several organizations will attempt the task, usually attempting to sabatoge the other, if they even know that another organization is doing it. The rarest case is when it comes to the attention of certain people in government, and the American people, and it is decided that a new organization is needed to handle the new task. This leads to a jumble of organizations, some of whom are 100% sure on what they are supposed to do, undoubtably incorrect, and others who have no idea what their supposed job is.
If the jumble of Federal organizations isn't enough, we then have the constant battle as to which powers actually belong to the federal government. Suposedly the federal government only has the power to do those things that the US Constitution specifically gave them the power to do, but we all know that this is just ignored, or there are ways found around it, such as withholding federal funding if states don't cooperate with federal initiatives.
Finally, there are the different branches of government constantly fighting. Our government has many checks and balances (more than were intended,) and as it has grown, the checks, balances, and red tape have grown to a ginormous scale. This seems like a problem. In fact, people commonly talk about making the government more efficient, and thank the Lord that they have failed miserably! The jumbled mess in our government keeps us free. It would be damn hard for anyone to sieze control of the government, as noone can really fully understand its workings. There is always someone in the way anytime one man begins to attain to much power. The levels and branches of government do not cooperate, there are party loyalties further complicating matters, and the occaisional guy who actually cares about the freedom of the every day American. Thank God for the jumbled mess that we call our government, and God bless America.

(I apologize that this post is a bit of a jumbled mess itself, I wrote it in pieces)