Will Republicans Cut Out Big Govt. By Getting Rid of the Homeland Security Dept?

[YankeeLeft7x]

Will these hypocritical Republican's seek to get rid of the Homeland Security Department which is all about big government? Let's see but the GOP are into political repression.

Department of Homeland Security: the ‘Carter’ mistake of George W. Bush
August 20th, 2010 By Ellie Velinska

"....On September 11, 2001 the world changed. The US government realized they had all the pieces of the puzzle before the attack on America but did not see the whole picture: the warning sign of the terror to come....President Bush tried to reform the federal bureaucracy dealing with the national security. Unfortunately instead of improving communications between the existing departments he created a new bureaucracy: the Department of National Security that was composed from agencies taken away from various departments....The US spent over 7 billion dollars on accommodation of the new Department. Instead of spending those money on communication improvement the federal government wasted it on new office desks and draperies, drawing pictures for new department seal and medals and all kind of construction and design activities...."

http://www.bigbureaucracy.com/?p=1599

[bemildred]

1. LOL.

Yeppers.
:rofl:

[jwirr]

2. Its their baby! Out with the bath water.

[HopeHoops]

3. That woud REALLY piss of the GOP corporate sponsors!

[DCKit]

5. Seriously. Fatherland Security is a freaking gold mine for government contractors. n/t

[YankeeLeft7x]

6. Like Joe Lieberman?

ugh

[YankeeLeft7x]

4. The Homeland Security Dept is Costly & Big Government

The Homeland Security Dept is:

1. Big Government
2. Costly
3. Not Accountable to anyone because of secrecy

[spin]

7. I thought Democrats would be working to stop the invasion of privacy ...

and the infringements on our rights that the Homeland Security Agency implemented under Bush. That turned out to be another disappointment.

I didn't like the ideas behind the organization when I first heard the name "Homeland Security". That name made me think of the Gestapo. Damned if I wasn't right.

In the United States, the Department of Homeland Security was created soon after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, as a means to centralize response to various threats.The term is rarely used by common United States citizens to refer to their country, which made the chosen name sound odd to many.<1> In a June 2002 column, Republican consultant and speechwriter Peggy Noonan expressed the hope that the Bush administration would change the name of the department, writing that, "The name Homeland Security grates on a lot of people, understandably. Homeland isn't really an American word, it's not something we used to say or say now". emphasis added
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland

Wouldn't it be great if the first bipartisan effort of the new Congress was to curtail the growing power of the Homeland Security Agency and restore our Constitutional freedom.

{i]edited to add last comment

[Bozita]

8. My dream business is to own the rights to the confiscated Bic lighters. Nothing more.

[deacon]

9. It's easy to sit back and say no to everything. It's their turn to have their ideas up for constant

scrutiny. It's your turn you gutless wonders.

[WizardLeft62]

10. Nope

Republicans like the National Security State apparsatus