Thanks for the kind words guys, much appreciated.
I do want to correct some stuff i said in the other post... after a bit more research I found that the anticipated total budget of DHS this year is going to be somewhat north of 44 Billion dollars. This is a good bit less than 20% of the budget...... and all i can claim in defense is that i must have been looking at some pie charts on gov.org incorrectly.
I do feel that the point i made is still the same, It's still an extraordinarily large amount of money that our gov'n spends on a dept that has a very dubious return on investment. When you then factor in the "cost" of constitutional rights being stripped away as well...
not cool....
We really have to find a way to get these darned politicians under control (Don't kid yourself, neither party is any better than the other)
Personally i think the only solution is to work our way to a viable 3rd party system, but i don't know how we could ever manage a hat trick like that.
In any case, thanks again for the kind words.
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