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Friday, October 7, 2005
Senator Saxby Chambliss Responds to Broadcast Flag Issue
My Senator called today. Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss takes the side of consumers and will attempt to have the Broadcast Flag amendment attached to an upcoming reconciliation bill pulled out for open debate.[More...]
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Bush Takes Responsibility for Blunders
Is this the first time Bush has uttered the words "I take responsibility"? I don't recall ever hearing them before, at least not in the context of a mistake. He didn't seem to have his heart in it, but it's a good first start at acting like a leader. Too bad it's taken six years for him to do it.
Bush Takes Responsibility for Blunders - Yahoo! News
"And to the extent that the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility. I want to know what went right and what went wrong," said Bush.
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Saturday, September 10, 2005
$107 Billion and Counting
According to the 2005 Dept. of Homeland Security Budget in Brief, the total expenditures for 2003-2005 exceed $107 billion. Let me repeat that:$107 billion
This does not include the special appropriations made for Katrina. It is just the operating funds for the largest bureaucracy in American history. If we were to demand that the governemnt calculate a Return on Investment (ROI), which is how most businesses determine if something is worth doing, I suspect we would be able to identify precisely one piece of tangible evidence for this massive expenditure - the Disney-like Homeland Security Advisory System.
But we do see enormous burdens on travelers, citizens, airlines, and airports, as well as enormous profit opportunities for bureaucrats, technology companies, and people with hare-brained ideas to sell to the government.
It is amazing what we have come to accept from our elected representatives.
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