Ever since the catastrophic events of September 11, the question
that has repeatedly been asked is, how can the United States prevent
a future terrorist attack from occurring. I have seen a wide range
of solutions that have been presented by the government and as is
customary with the government, none of the solutions will work.
The solution that has the best chance of being implemented is
Bush's creation of a Homeland Security Department. This department
is supposed to integrate 22 different agencies that are scatte! red
throughout the federal bureaucracy. It is supposed to have 170,000
employees and it will cost $37.5 billion dollars a year to operate,
though the White House concedes privately that the figure is bound to
increase in the coming years.
Most everyone in the controlled media and in the Congress are
hailing this as if it were on par with the invention of the light
bulb or putting a man on the moon. I have witnessed countless
politicians from both parties in front of cameras asking the American
people to go along with their moronic scheme. House Speaker Dennis
Hastert (R Illinois) said in a written statement, "The president's
proposal is the right response to the very difficult issue of
homeland security. The House will start the process of creating a
Department of Homeland Security as soon as possible." Richard
Gephardt (D Missouri), has said that, "My hope is that we can
effectively and expeditiously receive this plan from the pr! esident,
work it through the Congress,and try to make it a reality as quickly
as possible,"
It is interesting to note that the there is no disagreement
between the two parties on this issue. Most every prominent
Republican and Democrat has been in favor of this idea and has gone
out to endorse it, even before they have bothered to read what Bush's
plans call for. If the Congress were truly comprised of men who
upheld their allegiance to the Constitution, then the Congress would
realize that it is Congress and not the President that makes laws.
However, the reality is quite the contrary as the American "two party
system" is nothing more than a one party dictatorship under the guise
of being two separate entities.
I will not digress on the issue of the two parties being one as
this is not the purpose of my writing. I will therefore focus on
what the current flaws with this new department are, I will focus on
how Bush has moved aw! ay from his campaign promises, and I will write
down a general outline of how the United States can end terrorism
immediately.
The Department of Homeland Security will be another costly
agency that the government does not need. Bush claims that the
department will ONLY cost $37.5 billon dollars a year. However, this
is unlikely as almost every government endeavor will end up costing
more than what the proponents initially claimed. This department
will be no different from the Defense Department or the Department of
Health and Human Services in how inefficiently it will be
administered. For starters, we should note that agencies that made
numerous mistakes in not processing intelligence information
correctly before September 11, will be placed in this department.
This is the equivalent of creating a World Cup soccer team comprised
of 11 players who scored goals in their own nets. We will have the
same bureaucrats as before, only wi! th different titles and, no doubt,
bigger paychecks running this department. This will happen, while
Muslims continue to work as security screeners and baggage handlers
at American airports. In essence, this department will be created,
spend tens of billions of dollars per anum, and a Muslim working as a
baggage handler could place a bomb in the luggage compartment of a
plane without the least bit of hassle.
Anyone with a brain will realize that Bush lied to us when he
said he wanted to reduce the size of government. In fact, government
has grown at a much faster rate than it did during the administration
of Bill Clinton. Not only does Bush want to create this new
department, he also wants to "increase diversity" by placing more non-
whites into white residential neighborhoods thanks to the generous
housing subsidies that they will be receiving. Bush has also
increased tariffs on steel imports and he has increased subsidies to
far! mers, even though the most efficient thing would be to let the
free market solve both of these problem. This is coming from a guy
who claimed to be a fiscal conservative who wanted government to
remain out of the economy.
