Posted on 06/06/2002 5:33:13 PM PDT by knak
Edited on 07/06/2004 6:37:37 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Mineta was consulted in advance, said spokesman Chet Lunner. There are 36,000 people in the Coast Guard, which rescues boaters in addition to patrolling ports and offshore platforms and tracking smugglers and drugs.
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Debating this reorganization will let us know everyone who is active now. Putting someone in charge of it all may well increase our liberty.
I don't think many know all the nefarious and even illegal things these agencies that we have never heard about are doing now. Don't think the ACLU will help you. They are just a poor little organization with active PR to raise funds for their cause of the year.
By the way, President Bush did mention that eliminating duplication and overlap would save money. They may not have many layoffs, because one half of the federal workforce is slated to retire by 2005.
Giuliani may be a liberals RINO, but he'd be good in this post. 1) It would be personal. 2) He's really good at law enforcement issues, his cockeyed 2nd amendment stance aside.
BATF is a special case of an agency run amuk. Not even the DEA or FBI is as bad as them, and those two are pretty bad.
BATF is widely known as a place where you can dump incompetant people. I don't think they want screwups in this new agency.
Ok, I'll go along with no people count cut. This looks then like more Pork Barrel legislation to be located in (this is an exclusive) Morgantown, West Virginia.
Dahh, who did West Virginia vote for?
I am saying it now. THIS IS A DISASTER. It will NOT capture and disable the terrorists. Pure, pure pork.
One White Elephant replacing another White Elephant.
For example, it is probably a good thing humans have two kidneys.
In the case of government, redundancy frequently results in rivalry. Admittedly, rivalry can get in the way of competing agencies performing their duties. That is a good thing, when their duties injure liberty. When their duties are beneficial to liberty, rivalry helps them stay true to their duty. Each rival helps keeps the others honest.
As is usual in most things, it is a trade-off, and the optimal amount of redundancy should be carefully sought.
It is also a huge bureaucratic reorganization, needful of an extremely aggressive corporate executive COO type, of which Ridge may have more the Guliani, but I doubt either has enough to pull this off.
I could see Ridge in a Cabinet Head post, with a deputy (TBD) extremely strong in organizational skills implementing Ridges/Bush's policy.
Given the fact that many federal agencies are not necessary and this just creates yet another one which will likely like the EPA, Treasury, Interior, Energy, and Education Dept, create it's own new rules and regulations for us to live by I'm leary of it. We are creating more agencies to oversee agencies that over see other agencies. It's like making more laws sooner or later you become saturated in them and none are effective. This is somewhat a taking of many agencies that we don't need and combining there strenght. How many more federal policing agencies must we have?
Yea, that's what was said.
We'll see.
I never thought deeper, you could be right. Sorta like a sideways move to get rid of some dead wood. I hope you are right. One of the problems in our Government employee sceme is blood suckers. And, they are everywhere.
The only thing is that takes matters out of our control as voters also. I wouldn't trust Clinton appointees either. At least with elections there is a dim hope of seeing someone out of office.
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