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]
And is Tom Ridge the man to head it up?
My vote is for Rudi Guilani.
I have some reservations, but my support is with President Bush. After all, America is at war and if we want to win, all American's have to support the Commander In Chief.
Think! Israel has been trying to protect itself from these beasts for nearly 40 years with ZERO success. You people are so easy.
"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized...I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization."
--Petronius, 210 B.C.
Tonight on at RadioFR! June 6, 2002
YO!
ANNA AND MERCURIA
DO THE "REYNOLDS (W)RAP"
(Well, you knew it had to happen sometime...!)
WITH SPECIAL GUEST
DAVID PALMQUIST
"THE KING OF CONSPIRACY"
On further thought, the department will be dangerously close to a domestic military, IMHO, with a "navy", and "army". Someone will realize they don't have an "air force" and that will be on the table soon.
I saw elswhere the department is slated to have 17,000 employees and a budget of $37 billion. I expect both numbers to rise.
This should not be rammed through unexamined. Thank God for our system of checks and balances.
Health and Human Services would of course need to transition some of its chem./bio defense effort, but the lions share of the current efforts in chem./bio defense is conducted within the Defense Department. HHS is more concerned with natural occurring issues and DoD is exclusively concerned with weapons of mass destruction (chem./bio/nuclear). I wonder what the impact on DoD will be?
Agreed! One big secret agency that can not only tap your phones but monitor your travel activities and pry into your health records.
Thanks, Dubya! I feel safer already.
If NRA understood grassroots organizing, they'd have lots of people like you (and me) picketing Mineta's office saying just this.
Would you argue that the current alphabet soup and its excessive redundancy across departments, functions and budgets was in any way at all "forming into teams?" Not even close. I know very little about what Bush said at this point and I am extremely suspicious of large governemnt, but if this actually allows us to cut some fat, remove some bureacracy, eliminate redundancy and creat more efficiency, than it would seem that this plan just MIGHT actually have a prayer's chance of taking the current mess and "forming a team." I do not see where your analogy can even be remotely close to a realistic assessment, given the current size, scope and complexity of the Federal Govt., which was becoming more complex daily as opposed to beginning to "form a team."
Good point! GWB at some time in the future will have to leave office and a replacement will be made. Now if that replacement is one Hillary Clinton or Al Gore how does everyone feel about them running this type of agency? Scares Me! Point is if it's something the Dems can later use against us and worse take away more of our rights and freedoms then we don't need to go there.
And you can bet these departments which lost these positions will indeed re-create them at the first given oppertunity to help the Office of Homeland Security of course /sarcasm
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