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According to Andy Card, WH Chief of Staff, there will no additional money required except the $37.1 billion he requested for Homeland Security. In fact, there will be streamlining!

Look at it this way -- some of the Senior Executive Service folks in INS, Customs, etc. are going the way of the dinosaur as you won't need so many and a lot of these were appointed by clinton! This is one way to get rid of clintonites in supervisory positions. These will be new jobs, their old ones will go away and now the clintonites will be able to "spend more time with their family!" Pretty neat way to get rid of them while making the Government work better if you ask me!

Unfortunately, I fear Andy Card is dreaming. The budget should already be available within the other cabinet departments but it probably won't be there when it is time to shift the dollars around. This is the same government that required a $43 billion plug to balance their books because they were not sure where the money went.

I hope this is an excuse to cut the fat. The testimoney on the FBI today indicated NINE namagement levels between the field agent and the director. They could save plenty if they eliminated two or three layers!

... there will no additional money required except the $37.1 billion he requested for Homeland Security. In fact, there will be streamlining!

That's yet to be proven. This is a massive undertaking by the Bush administartion. Remember PKM, we're dealing with the biggest bureaucracy in world history. You and I both know, that cutting waste, fraud and abuse, could easily reduce the federal budget 5%-10%. So, when I hear someone use the word, streamlining, a very apprehensive feeling comes over me.

As for getting rid of old clintonites, that's something I like. But most of these people won't be fired, just demoted or asked to retire, may be. We'll still have loads of deadwood hanging around.

I have some reservations about all this, but America is at war and all good American's have to support President Bush, if we want to win. I have confidence he'll make it happen. But it won't be easy.

According to Andy Card, WH Chief of Staff, there will no additional money required except the $37.1 billion he requested for Homeland Security.

Oh, so because this tremendous expansion really happened before tonight, it's not an expansion of the federal government??

He just proposed a new Cabinet position, the same way Carter invented a federal Dept. of Education in his term. You think Ridge is gonna be the only guy to hold the job and then it's kaput? Some Dem sometime isn't going to have the chance to add on to the monstrosity??

Benjamin Franklin was wise beyond our years: Those who are willing to sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither.

"Look at it this way -- some of the Senior Executive Service folks in INS, Customs, etc. are going the way of the dinosaur as you won't need so many and a lot of these were appointed by clinton! This is one way to get rid of clintonites in supervisory positions. These will be new jobs, their old ones will go away and now the clintonites will be able to "spend more time with their family!" Pretty neat way to get rid of them while making the Government work better if you ask me!"

I can tell you don't know Washington....

According to Andy Card, WH Chief of Staff, there will no additional money required except the $37.1 billion he requested for Homeland Security. In fact, there will be streamlining!

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon that will add up to some real money.