When he said "Each of the fifteen departments is usually headed by a secretary, except the Justice Department" I thought he was going to say it was run by DC superheroes.
This series helped me on the AP Gov exam, since it encouraged me to review information throughout the year. A 4 or even a 5 might be in my future. Once I get my bank account in order, I'll start donating on Patreon. Keep on teaching (and punching eagles)!
Your jokes are getting better, and I like the using animated characters over the fake voices. Also I'm loving the break down of bureaucracies. I know that the last episode kind of touched on the role of bureaucracies but I would really like to see the historical context shown with them. Though that may have to be in a second season, and working with other Crash Course teachers much like the Big History series involved both history and science.
I'm a big crash course fan, I'm also a big politics follower. But I was wondering if you could do a group of episodes or one about British politics as I'm English and it would be really cool.
Without the bureaucracy, we would not function as a society because the US is too large to govern without said bureaucracy. If you were paying attention, you'd know this. That is all.
People, the eagle was born and raised to get punched by Craig. It is its only function in this life. They do allow it to breed with other eagles who can be released into the wild. If you keep lobbying for Craig to stop punching the eagle there will be fewer wild eagles. It is just the suffering of one for the good of the many. You do all want more eagles don't you?
I hate to nitpick, but...at 2:10...that's not an Amtrak train. That's a SEPTA train. SEPTA being the local transportation authority for the Philadelphia area; it's a consortium of six Pennsylvania counties and has nothing to do with the federal government. (I live around Philly, so I recognize SEPTA stuff on sight.) SEPTA trains do run on some Amtrak-owned track, but I don't think that section is one of them (also, that's kind of obscure).
I'm currently studying Government and Politics A-level so hopefully I'm qualified to answer your question. The simple answer is...yes! If what you're asking is whether gov. bureaucracies are part of the executive branch, yes, they are. Though the constitution technically stipulates a singular executive, the bureaucracies are, on paper, an extension of this, enabling the president to fulfil his executive role of implementing policy. However, in a historical sense, most government bureaucracies don't "originate" in the executive. Their creation has been authorised by congress.
Why didnt crash course tell us that the post office used to make a 3bill profit until 2006 when Congress passed a law preventing them from increasing their prices while forcing the post office to increase its cost by stockpiling funds for thier medical pensions, up to 50yrs worth. Turning the post office profits of 3 billion to a loss of 1.4 billion
Not sure how relevant this is to America specifically, but could you do a video explaining anarchism (as opposed to statism) and its efficacy? Aka why do we need countries at all?
Keep these coming! I love crash course gov and politics! :D if its not to hard a controversial do crash course Communism to tell people what it really is or crash course economics or do crash course Soviet Union (history of the cold war, corruption, world economy, proxies) Keep covering the BIG topics! :D btw, I wouldn't mind if you guys had to run ads to pay for this....ill watch em :)
Sometimes i think the congress should be replaced with elected bureaucrats/professional statesmen who propose new laws, but can't ratify them, and a representative house/senate that ratify laws but can't propose them. This way only professionals craft laws, but representatives of the people always have the last say. (of course perhaps laws can be proposed by the president, the supreme court, or even by official petition).
Keep em coming! I love crash course gov and politics! :D if its not too controversial or hard do crash course democracy (govs, systems, electoral systems, civic action), or crash course Communism (real communism....not "USSR" or "DPRK" or "Cuba" or "China" cause theyre not), or crash course economy! :o or crash course Soviet/2nd world history :o id watch ads if you needed them to pay for this :)
Could you do an in depth video on the possibilities of Terra forming other planets like Venus and Mars. I only ask because in many games books and TV shows they show them doing with alien technology or some forms of advanced tech we don't have. I was just wondering if that kind of tech would be possible.
Man it's hard to follow the politics language and terms when you're a non-native english speaker! Would really help with some subtitles, pretty please! Makes it a lot easier to understand without watching it like 5 times or pause and rewind every now and then.... (also deaf people can follow up on this interesting ehh video theme)
BullShitThat We know this... do you think all of America is some youth chewing bubblegum and listening to rap in headphones on one end and hicks in Appalachia and the deep south who "drink beer and shoot deer" on the other? We know full well where those tax dollars go.
BullShitThat actually Social Security consumes most of the Federal budget...not to say that we don't spend wayyyyyy too much on our military, but get your facts straight
Jonah Feldman Um not by much, Social Security is 24% "defense" spending is 18%. www.cbpp.org/research/policy-basics-where-do-our-federal-tax-dollars-go
i presume you haven't read; lysander spooner's, no treason the constitution of no authority murray rothbard's, the anatomy of the state marc steven's, the government indicted and adventures in legal land larken rose's, the iron web and the the most dangerous superstition adam kokesh's, freedom
