[PSYCHO-FREEP]

In answer to your thought, firstly, it is not easy to implement total compliance as quickly as you like. There is a limited budget to work with. On one hand, you complain about the President's "runaway" spending, yet you require total implementation of people, expensive monitoring equipment that hasn't been invented yet, but is in the process, add the huge cost of implementing the WAR, then add all the opposition the fights the President in everything he does......

Perhaps you would do much better if you were in his shoes. You could also draft large numbers of troops to line our borders and build razor wire fences over several hundred miles, all of which takes time, planning, approval, FUNDING, etc....

Instant response only exists in dictatorships. Democracy's take time. and your idea that these measures are "simple" is simply a figment of your very active imagination.

[skip2myloo]

We've seen a 60% increase in federal spending for education, which is not a federal mandate.

And, then you tell me we don't have enough money to provide for the common defense, which is the PRIMARY federal mandate.

In my household budget, I loosely categorize things as 'must have,' and 'nice to have.'

Guns or butter ??

I see today on Drudge, Bush is proposing freezing federal spending except for defense and homeland security.

You think he might be reading this thread ??

We have the technology to screen air cargo and air mail, we are not implementing it. We have the technology to guard airport perimeters - we simply are not doing it.