Posted on 02/08/2015 3:23:19 PM PST by Libloather
WASHINGTON — Spending for the Department of Homeland Security hangs in the balance as Congress fights over immigration matters in the agency's annual funding bill. Without action by Feb. 27, the department's budget will shut off.
To hear Democrats and many Republicans tell it, the result would be unacceptable risks to U.S. security at a time of grave threats worldwide. In reality, though, most people will see little change if the department's money flow is halted, and some of the warnings of doom are as exaggerated as they are striking.
"There are ghoulish, grim predators out there who would love to kill us or do us harm," said Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee. "We should not be dillydallying and playing parliamentary pingpong with national security."
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And agency with the size of the USMC and with twice the budget goes offline and saves up money? Oh, and the Nazis might try to repo the creepy, un-American sounding name.
Nothing other than we’ll be freer and spending less.
That sounds like one of those, “If a tree falls in the forest” things. I doubt anyone will even notice.
I can’t think of a single bad thing.
Little old ladies will have to molest themselves.
We don’t need DHS.
Our nation functioned just FINE, and 99.9% of the population in our nation managed to survive without them for over 225 years. It should be shut down.
Roger that! Improvement in lots of ways.
strange that Obama thinks the DHS is important, being a creation of george bush, and all. he seems to have a clinical hatred of anything that bush had anything to do with.
We should try if for a while and if nobody notices the difference, clean house.
Nothing important. Maybe life could return to the pre-911 conditions where US citizens are not considered to be the enemy.
Well have thousands of illegals entering the country through its’ southern border.....................oh wait.
Well with the TSA gone the lines will move faster in the airports. I say make it permanent.
Well with the TSA gone the lines will move faster in the airports. I say make it permanent.
The gansta-mint will no longer usher illegals in?
DHS shutting down = less chance of gun confiscation from law abiding citizens—the real homeland security.
answer: then we get to fly again (and actually use all our accumulated Frequent Flyer Miles)
(we stopped flying when the Federal Gropers arrived)
Shutdown Homeland Security? It’s a start...
Freedom and an enjoyable flight finally?
IMO, Obama will try to shut down commercial air traffic, just out of spite.
He did something similar during the “Government shutdown”, if you recall
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