Name:	MAJ USA RET -	Reply
Subject:	Would You Miss 'em?
Date:	2/25/2015 6:59:31 AM

If you woke up this morning and, unbeknownst to you, the Department of Education, Department of Energy, and Department of Homeland Security had been summarily disestablished… how long do you think it would require before it had any adverse effect on your life?

- - LMF Curmudgeon

Name:	Old Diver -	Reply
Subject:	Funding homeland security?
Date:	2/25/2015 10:13:25 AM

  So long as our borders stay wide open to anyone who would care to cross bringing, anything from diseses and dope to nukes does it really matter if we fund the airport goons or not to to grope  us and paw through our baggage? The current system is silly!

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	Simple answer....no
Date:	2/25/2015 10:19:39 AM

I could also think of a few other departments that we would all be better off without having them at the federal level.

Name:	lucky67 -	Reply
Subject:	Would You Miss 'em?
Date:	2/25/2015 11:48:48 AM

Turn it all over to the private sector & run it like the business that it is

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Would You Miss 'em?
Date:	2/26/2015 2:22:33 PM

I don't know, because I've never looked at the total mission of any of them.  Before I started eliminating them, I want to know exactly what they are regulating.  For example, Energy has a lot to do with controlling nuclear components, and I don't know I want that mission dissolved. 

DHS is just too big and needs to be re-examined.  You know that they took a lot of smaller agencies and folded them into something called "DHS" TSA  and FEMA are just two of their missions.  They also evaluate new equipment for civil defense, and other U.S.  uses in their Science and Technology wing.  They are extremely well funded (the current budget snafu not considered).  They have never gelled as an entity, and if you read the reports, you will find that DHS has the worse morale of any government agency.  I believe this is because their mission is not well focused and they have long suffered from extremely poor leadership.   If it were up to me, I would examine its components and see if those missions can be more effectively exectured in other places. 

Easy to jump on a bandwagon saying this or that should be eliminated, because that's a party line, but before I jumped on that bandwagon, I'd want to be sure I know exactly what I am doing without and more importantly, who is now going to do it.  Bad policy does not mean that the regulation and oversight is not needed; it may just mean tha that the policy needs to be rewritten or re-executed in a different way.  That's just my view.