Bureaucracy and You

Bureaucracy and You

Bureaucracy is obviously a big organization that has many components and characteristics that it both helps and hurts it. The effectiveness of it is affected by its size. Many jobs in the government and many projects are to be completed and along with them problems that need taken care of. One of the ways that bureaucracy helps the government is by all the different groups of people who work to complete them. On the same point, if a projects needs to be completed and there are 10 people working together, each person has his or her own say and this most likely cause more problems because it slows down the process.

In a large bureaucracy this could be a bad thing, and as mentioned above, a good thing. Although a large bureaucracy can hurt government, the fact existing is that it is slow and looking at every view and idea, may be a good way amongst people to finish the work in the most efficient way.

Do not call List: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been receiving complaints in increasing numbers from consumers throughout the nation about unwanted and uninvited calls to their homes from telemarketers. Pursuant to its authority under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the FCC established, together with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a national Do-Not-Call Registry. The registry is nationwide in scope, applies to all telemarketers (with the exception of certain non-profit organizations), and covers both interstate and intrastate telemarketing calls (2010).

For many decades, marketing companies have been allowed to contact consumers

by telephone to sell their services. Although telemarketing has proved to be a very successful technique for advertising, many phone consumers were turned off from the practice and began to view it negatively once companies became more persistent, and began calling people more frequently and during dinner hours (2010).

Public demand existed long before the creation of the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) National Do Not Call Registry. However, as time passed and phone consumers grew more agitated, the government could no longer ignore their complaints and began to do something to help the public gain more control over their phone privacy. The first thing they did to restrict telemarketing occurred in 1991 with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) (2011),

National Weather Services: The National Weather Service has its beginnings in the early history of the United States. Weather has been always been important to the citizenry of this country, and this was especially true during the 17th and 18th centuries (2010).

The National Weather Service started on February 9th, 1870. President Ulysses S. Grant signed a resolution of Congress authorizing the Secretary of War to establish the service.

This resolution required the Secretary of War

"to provide for taking meteorological observations at the military stations in the interior of the continent and at other points in the States and Territories...and for giving notice on the northern (Great) Lakes and on the seacoast by magnetic telegraph and marine signals, of the approach and force of storms" (2010).

It was decided that this agency would be placed under the Secretary of War because military discipline would secure the greatest promptness, accuracy, and regularity in the required observations.

The Occupational Safety and Health Act: The occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 heralded a new era in the history of public efforts to protect workers from harm on the job. This Act established for the first time a nationwide, federal program to protect almost the entire workforce from job-related death, injury, and illness. Secretary of Labor James Hodgson, who had helped shape the law, termed it "the most significant legislative achievement" for workers in a decade. Hodgson's first step was to establish within the Labor Department, effective April 28, 1971, a special agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to administer the Act. Building on the Bureau of Labor Standards as a nucleus, the new