If You Like The Post Office, You Will Love Homeland Security
Senator Max Cleland - He Failed His Constituency
Remember way-back in 2002 when people would criticize the creation of the Department of Homeland Security by comparing its probable effectiveness to that of the US Postal Service? All this was going on during the mid-term elections of 2002, and a Senate seat in Georgia was up for election.
The mid-term elections of 2002 were particularly rancorous. One of the big issues was the formation of the Department of Homeland Security, which was the result of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and of the recommendations of the later inaugurated 9/11 Commission. The Commission recommended creating a gargantuan Federal Beauracy from 22 existing agancies.
One of the most contentious Senate races in the nation during the elections of 2002 was the battle between Georgia Senator Max Cleland and challenger Saxby Chambliss. Former war hero Max Cleland was beaten badly by an electorate that was ready for a change.
The Democrats claim that Senator Cleland was accused of being unpatrotic, and I am sure that there were those who honestly saw Max in those terms. I simply saw the Senator as getting stupid, and following his master’s orders to marginalize the nation’s security by voting to unionize the new department.
Now we know the results of the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and it is not good. The President and the majority Democrat Congress still want to unionize the DHS in the face of its abject failure, exposing American citizens to even greater, and more numerous threats. We will pay more, too.
It is time to destroy the Department of Homeland Security, and start all over again. Unfortunately, the President and the majority in Congress are not that smart.
Things are going to get more stupid, and more dangerous.
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I’m sure the people working in homeland security have the best of intentions and largely want to keep America safe, but the way these organizations are being pushed into targeting the wrong people constantly, it’s really getting out of hand.
Thanks, MK, for your observations.
I didn’t intend to say that everyone in the TSA was lazy and incompetent. But, if the TSA is unionized control of the process well migrate from management to a shared authority with the union.
The union doesn’t have any incentive to increase the nations security. The union is incented to negotiate coffee breaks, non-firing for cause, and a whole plethora of things not having to do with the TSA’s mission.
Mismanagement becomes non-management.
Unions have become one of the best ways to destroy anything worthwhile. Power, power, absolute power. You know, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.