DHS...Why does it even exist?

Get rid of DHS, and pleeeze take away TSA too! Hire the Mossad instead for airport security.
 

The more I read about this DHS, the more I think it was a hurried, knee-jerk reaction to 9-11, and not very well implemented. It looks like it just adds another layer of bureaucracy that hampers effective decision making on the part of the Administration, the FBI and CIA. It certainly hasn't done anything to slow down the flow of drugs and illegals across our Southern border, and it is questionable on how effective it has been in reducing the influence of the Muslim radicals. The recent video of the beheading of several Coptic Christians in Libya shows an spokesman who may very well be American. I don't think this country is getting good value for the 50 billion being spent on that department.
 
Ralphy1 said:
It is a jobs program that will be hard to get rid of now that it is well established...
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You're probably right...it is just another wasteful Federal Government "jobs program" that produces little of value. In this case, it probably hampers the agencies that are supposed to be keeping this nation safe, because it adds another layer of bureaucracy that must be waded through before any meaningful action can be taken.

If these government agencies were to be judged and funded, based upon positive results, half of them would be eliminated.
 
This along with the Patriot Act were created out of fear and vanity. Too many were in a rush to look ultra patriotic and the agenda exploited that times 10.

Sounds harmless right-Department of Homeland Security with the key word being "Security". Everyone wants to 'feel' secure. Just like the Patriot Act, if you were against it you would appear to be unpatriotic. The word Patriot was purposely used for manipulation and not nationalism.

It goes against many of the protections and balances in the constitution by centralizing everything. The problem wasn't lack of centralization. Core department employees might not forward information let alone a different organization employee. Personally I think it was to take things like the Department of Immigration and Naturalization out of the headlines since some of the terrorist were here on expired visas. The FBI and Border Patrol were the only agencies that should been really beefed up because the Border Patrol well protects out borders and it's the FBI with domestic arrest powers needed more agents to pursue terrorists.
 
Like you say...in the weeks after 9/11, there were a lot of things bantered about, cloaked in the names of "Security" and "Patriot", and the legislation that was passed has shown itself to be marginally effective. With these ongoing terrorist activities, it is time to step back and take a look at what works...and what is just "window dressing"...and get rid of the overhead, and put the funding to work in areas that are effective.
 

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