Let's Complete Carson's Cabinet

To continue the thought began a few days ago with my article, "What the Republicans, Repulsicans and Rebooblicans Need To Do", let's put forth presumptive Cabinet members and Cabinet level officials to campaign with Carson, addressing their specific areas of responsibility.
  Though he is about to turn 80, as long as he is alive and apparently healthy, I shall always promote Dr. Walter E. Williams to be the Secretary of the Treasury.  He is a renown and respected Constitutional conservative columnist, commentator and author.  Dr, Williams has been George Mason University's John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics for thirty-five years and served as Economics Department Chairman for six years.  In the field of Economics, there is not a more intelligent and insightful, brighter or more brilliant human being alive.   And there is not an American alive whom I would trust more to stand fifth in line to the Presidency.
 Once again, I promote my home state's Secretary of Agriculture, Steve Troxler to be Federal Secretary of Agriculture.  Steve is a multi-generational family farmer who has held his Council of State position for the past decade.  He is a past president of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture and the Southern Association of State Departments of Agriculture.  He chaired NASDA's Food Regulation and Nutrition Committee, and was awarded last year by the organization for his commitment to food safety.  Like many of my proposed Secretaries, he will be tasked to downsize and debureaucratize the department, so that his position will become an Under Secretary within the Commerce Department.
  
 Though much of, including his most recent public service has been in the area of education, I once again put forth Texan Michael Williams to be the Secretary of Energy.  He was the first of his race to be elected to statewide executive office in Texas.   He served for over a decade on the Railroad Commission, half of that as Chairman.  Despite its name, the Commission is concerned with the regulation of the oil and natural gas industries in the state. In that capacity, he represented Texas on the Southern States Energy Board and acted as 'point person' for regulatory reform and technology modernization.  Mr. Williams also chaired the Governor's Clean Coal Technology Council and FutureGen Texas, his state's part of the national  project promoting the development and operation of emissions free power plants.  Like many of my proposed Cabinet members. Mr. Williams will be downsizing and debureaucratizing the department to divisional status within the Commerce Department.
Veterans' Affairs is one of the very most important functions of Federal governance. But it does not need the over bureaucratization of being a separate Cabinet department. It needs dedicated and devoted personnel from the top down.  With that thought, I suggest Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams, PhD, RN, FAAN, the current Chief Nurse Officer and Deputy Surgeon General to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs/Under Secretary of Defense for Veterans' Affairs. Regardless of her political party affiliation, she has the clinical and administrative experience and acumen to be an excellent one.

 I don't expect or promote a return to the Cabinet's original size.  The realities and responsibilities of Federal governance in the 21st century world doesn't allow for such. However, it does need to be such that it can be easily accountable and readily recognizable.
So much of the President's current Cabinet is now comprised of cabinet level officials, who are not part of the official line of succession.  Such offices need to be eliminated, or at least, redesignated to sub Cabinet level.
First and foremost is the position of White House Chief of Staff.  I have long advocated for the elimination of that job title throughout government.  Dr. Carson has, in his profession, held that title, and should as President, as Jack Kennedy did, as the last President to do so.

The EPA should be a part of the Department of Science and Medicine, with its Administrator being Under Secretary for Environmental Issues.  That person should not be George Pataki, as I tongue-in-cheek suggested in an earlier article. It should be David Deming, PhD, tenured professor of geology and geophysics.  Dr. Deming is widely renowned for his controversial spoken and written views in academia, based on common sense scientific methodology in areas of study, such as energy, sustainability and climate change.  
 The Director of The Office of Management and Budget should obviously be an Under Secretary of the Treasury and should do some actual accounting and auditing, rather than just advising about the practices.  I recommend my old high school buddy, John P. Matthews, Certified Internal Auditor..
 Do we really need a U.S. Trade Representative?  Isn't that the work of already existing, legitimate Cabinet officers, like Secretaries of State, Treasury and Commerce?
 Aren't such people as the Secretaries of the Treasury and Commerce and maybe the Treasurer of the United States supposed to be fulfilling this function?  This is just another epitome example of overblown bureaucracy and unaccountability and should be eliminated from the Federal payroll.  What are we paying the elected Executives and Legislators to do?
Again, another important job, but again, not deserving of independent Cabinet level status.  Its Administrator should be another Under Secretary within Commerce.  That person should be Californian Tom Del Baccaro, the senior partner in his law firm, specializing in assisting business start-ups.
  The U.S. Mission to the United Nations is part of the State Department.  One of the most important parts.  I would say therefore that our U.N. Ambassador remain as part of the non-succession Cabinet and a member of the Security Cabinet, as well as our one vote on the U.N.'s Security Council.  Until Bobby Jindal reorganizes HHS into DSM, predicating his move to this position, I would recommend a man of vast knowledge of human history and conservative, common sense understanding of world events to be appointed to this vital advisory role:former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an existing agency that is not part of any Executive department, reporting directly to The White House.  Because of its unique nature, I think that it should probably remain so, with its Administrator having Cabinet level status and being part of the Security Cabinet.  I haven't found anyone yet worthy of appointment, but I vehemently declare that the agency's top two officials, both recently appointed by Obama, need to be replaced, so that NASA can return to its original and vital mission of space exploration and exploitation, abandoning its present primary purpose, as proscribed by Baracka, to be an outreach program to world Muslims, to make them feel good about themselves and their contributions to science and mathematics.

Doing all of that would save SO much money and would make for SUCH a more responsive and responsible Executive branch of the Federal government.