cpt.fass1 wrote:
FEOS wrote:
cpt.fass1 wrote:
But maybe our economy wouldn't be in such shambles if we didn't have to pay for a million and one overlapping agencies.
What "million and one overlapping agencies" do we have?
Do you know the roles and responsibilities of those agencies? Do you know the statutory limitations on what they can and can't do? The overlap is actually quite small, and it's far better to have overlap than gaps, don't you think?
Yes and they overlap.. Remember when 9/11 Did happen, they had information that if shared could have actually stoped an attack..
You can defend your big government all you want, even when they don't provide. It's still a ghost trap(ghost trap is something I saw in the weekly world news where you put a candle and a tootsee roll, cause ghost "love Tootsee rolls", if smoke arises in the cover you have caught a ghost, if it doesn't, it's doing it's job.
Where does the DC Sniper fall into that list of attacks?
You're forgetting that the overlapping agencies you're complaining about didn't exist prior to 9/11 (DHS, DNI, etc). They were formed out of recommendations from the investigation into 9/11, IIRC. The point being that overlap isn't always bad, but gaps are. Gaps are what caused the lack of information sharing. Gaps in policy, gaps in organization that prevented communication. That's what DHS and DNI were supposed to mitigate.
You still haven't listed the "million and one overlapping agencies" or explained why overlapping is bad when trying to ensure maximum information sharing. I'm not defending big government. I despise big government. But when you twist off like that, your argument is simply flawed on multiple levels.
DHS is an abomination in terms of dysfunctional implementation. It makes the DoD look like a well-oiled machine. It could have been something useful, but it isn't. Not really. But that wasn't your argument.