[quote]Thuggish wrote:
[quote]andy1977 wrote:
[quote]Thuggish wrote:
[quote]andy1977 wrote:
I don’t care where he or anyone else in the U.S. is born. I don’t care if he or anyone else has a birth certificate, social security card, visa, etc. I care whether or not he and everyone else does the job they are elected/hired to do. Obama is no different from most politicians, he spends too much damn money. When financial difficulties are minor to non-existent, life gets a lot easier for everyone. Granted, there are plenty of other areas he can improve in, but I don’t want to stray any farther from the topic.
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While the spending is egregious, it is still a mistake to look past the blatant removal of all civil rights by enabling the DHS to detain anyone indefinitely for, in reality, anything they want.[/quote]
No doubt! However, part of spending less money would be laying at least half of DHS off, since most of them perform poorly at their jobs as well. Perhaps the half that were left would pick up their slack in fear of losing their jobs, and, of course, they would need to be held accountable for stupid things, like the one that you mentioned.[/quote]
I think you’re going the completely wrong direction. First, the DHS has a very small fraction of the federal budget. Second, laying half of them off because they do their jobs poorly isn’t the answer, eliminating the department is the answer.
This country doesn’t need a new department for every problem we encounter, every time we encounter it. We already had the FBI, they needed to be restructured a little.
It’s the quality vs. quantity thing at this point. And while we argue over more quantity, the quality only goes down, and our freedoms disappear while we’re not looking.[/quote]
There are a lot of different ways to look at it. Yes, there are way to many departments in our government! DHS employees are far from the only ones who need to be laid off. I was addressing DHS mainly because you brought it up, and a good friend of mine whom I’ve known since I was about 6 is a customs officer who works at 2 or 3 ports of entry in Vermont and New Hampshire. Every time I go back there, he tells me about how many millions they’ve pissed away on buildings, equipment, etc. on these few little, dinky entrances to the U.S. At one of these ports, he sometimes goes through an 8-hour shift without a vehicle crossing the border. He often wonders why this port of entry exists, and so do I. With that said, you are correct, him and his co-workers do have nearly unbelievable power. By far more power than any other law enforcement agency in the U.S. If police departments get the kind of power U.S. Customs has, everyone in this country is in serious trouble!
