[UnBlinkingEye]

What is the purpose of the Department of Defense?

[RoseofTexas]

HEHHEHEEHE...I think the Fox did it again...LOL! He OUT-FOXED the RATS!!

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

. . . it's from CNN, say no more.

[sinkspur]

Wanna be better protected, or not? He's pulling together a lot of different agencies and parts of other agencies.

[SunStar]

What is the purpose of the Department of Defense?

The Department of Defense is the P.C. term for the Department of War...

[SamAdams76]

Is everybody wearing their life jackets?

[WhiteGuy]

As my Dad used to say.......

"The federal governmet could screw up a wet dream"

Our friends in DC can't manage a budget, and waste more than they should.

and duhbya's solution is to throw more money at the problem.

Classic

[Willie Green]

I am watching President Bush giving a speech on CNN telling us he is expanding federal government more than any Democrat since Truman.

Do you mean to say he's even gonna surpass Johnson's "Great Society"???

Heaven help us!!!

[Vladiator]

Please return to your Homeland (tm). You will be safe there.

And stop thinking bad thoughts.

Big Brother can see what you are thinking.

[VRWC_minion]

Ok class, listen up. Lets go slowly with today's lesson.

Expanding gov't for defense = good

Expanding gov't for sucking up to liberal causes = bad.

[magellan]

I saw no expansion, per se. Instead Bush's reorg is likely to reduce government growth, since all of the homeland security stuff will be one agency, as opposed to every cabinet department having its own homeland security division.

[Reagan Man]

I hope it doesn't expand government, just reorganize national and homeland security measures, as the President said. We shall see.

[Utopia]

????
I heard the same speach. It sounded quit different to me. I heard that they all had their budgets, just who is reporting to whom has changed ... Eliminate the turf wars ... Lofty goal. Hope it works.

[FreeTheHostages]

Actually, I think this is great. The Secret Service should not be under Treasury, INS should not be under Justice. All these motley crew guys got to come together under one roof. Me likes.

[Senator_Palpatine]

Who can deny him these are exceptional times? Exceptional times demand exceptional measures! Exceptional measures demand exceptional men!

"In response to the direct threat to the Republic from the Confederacy of Independent Jihadists Systems, I propose that the Senate gives immediate emergency powers to the Supreme Chancellor-George W. Bush!"

[Republican Wildcat]

It sounded more like taking pieces of already existing bureaucracy and rearranging them. Didn't sound like "expansion" to me, though creating another cabinet department is fairly serious business. We'll need to see more details of it before reaching a final conclusion.

[ex-snook]

"What is the purpose of the Department of Defense? "

Obviously to be the policeman for the WOSP (World's Only Super Power). If you were thinking it was to defend the USA, you are mistaken. It takes a village to raise a child - government just has to get bigger and more obtrustive. Where do you think this country will be 25 years from now?

[seenenuf]

This is wonderful. There will be a hand-picked staff to be built by Bush's hand-picked man.
It is a good way for President Bush to leave behind both the old management and staff who have made career history as being paper pushers at the DOD,FBI,CIA - leave them sitting with their coffee and newspapers and waiting for pensions. The old turf wars between the alphabets is all torn up. I'll trust Tom Ridge to build the new model for government pay grade attainment. The added bonus is that Bush will get credit for at least a decade - or until the Dems succeed in getting some of 'their team' to be on the inside of PC decision making.

[VRWC_minion]

This just in...the competing plan by the liberals...

,One hundrend thousand INS agents on the streets.

[discostu]

OK I've now reviewed the list of changes. You're nuts. There's not one drop of expansion. Just getting agencies that are attached to national defense on a functional level (something the fed is SUPPOSED to be doing) and moving them all together into one department. I suppose you could sell it as expansion because there'll be a new department, but all of its agencies (and budget) are being transfered from existing areas.

[Bob J]

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