Civil Rights and Diversity Bureaucrats Sucking up Hundreds of Millions of Tax Dollars

Is this really necessary?

As leaders look for more ways to cut government expenditures and reduce the budget, some have pointed out the duplicative nature of a number of the government’s overlapping bureaucracies. The prodigious amount of federal offices devoted to diversity and civil rights is one example.

Based on The Daily Caller’s analysis, there are at least 55 offices, departments and commissions devoted to civil rights and diversity throughout the federal government. And their budgets don’t amount to petty cash.

In FY 2010, the last complete budget year, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights cost taxpayers $46.7 million; the Department of Agriculture’s Office of Civil Rights cost $24 million; the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division cost $145.4 million; Department of Transportation’s Office of Civil Rights cost $9.66 million; the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights cost $102 Million; the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cost $367 million and so on. Those numbers, however, are just the tip of the iceberg.

Isn't it time to start paring down all these bureaucracies? The civil rights and diversity situation in the country is clearly so much improved over the past 40 years there's simply no justification to keep all of these agencies going. But trying to eliminate these agencies will be fought by the people who make their living by perpetuating the myth that America is still a civil rights cesspool.  There's a whole industry dedicated to keeping people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson in expensive suits.