After reading about bureaucracies I believe that this sector actually makes the government functional. I compare federal bureaucracy to the honey be worker, is the bee that does all the work in the hive and gets pollen, nectar and water to produce honey. Our founding fathers created the government where there is three branches with in the government but it could be argued that overtime, advances in technology and changes in society we have blindly incorporated a fourth branch as what would be known as the Federal Bureaucracy Branch. The federal bureaucracy is divided up into three different segments known as Government corporations Independent agencies and Regulatory commissions. Each segment playing vital roles within our government making the life of the American citizens much easier. …show more content…
Some of the companies that are owned by the U.S Government are United States Postal Service, Tennessee Valley Authority, and Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. This is just a few of the government owned corporations. The United States Postal Service (USPS) has been in financial shambles for an extended period of time. On February 9th the USPS posted its fiscal year 2016 first quarter results in a news article. In the news article it states “The U.S. Postal Service reported operating revenue of $19.3 billion for the first quarter of fiscal year 2016 (October 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015), an increase of $613 million or 3.3 percent over the same period last year” (Ninivaggi). This is a positive because I remember that just a few years ago that there was a couple of small town USPS offices