Government does one thing well, it always screws up, and
when it screws up, it does it so, abysmally. The latest muff, involves a list
of 8oo foreigners deemed deportable, that were instead given naturalization
papers. Americans can't help but think that, even a moron should have caught
that mistake. Instead, we once again show our enemies weakness, a weakness
caused by big government bureaucratic stupidity.
What a sad state of affairs our Immigration and
Naturalization Department has been for generations. This is not the first and
less likely the last, boneheaded mistake, made by a highly politicized agency
that has never been modernize or managed to meet today's life threatening
demands.
The fact that Obama's government fails to update this agency,
utilizing the technological advances now available, to reduce both human error
and favoritism in this highly politicized department, that is vital to our
national interests, is "deplorable".
However, to blame only Obama and the Democrats would be
unfair and ignorant of a long history of congressional fault, along with
previous presidents, that equally allowed this vital agency to our national
interest to be operating with such inefficiency. In fact, some blame George
Bush's creation of Homeland Security as gumming up the already slow and low
functioning agency. History shows however, that this agency, the INS, has been
inept, corrupt and lacking the tools necessary to bring into the modern age of
efficiency.
Who can forget Homeland Security secretary, Janet
Napolitano's testimony about the system "pinging" when one of the
Boston Marathon bombers had re-entered the country after visiting a terrorist
training facility? The pinging sound was followed later by the sound of bombs
exploding, on a famous marathon route, planted by two asylum seekers allowed to
live among us, and deemed harmless by DHS.
No, the time is past due for the experiment with Homeland
Security as a watchdog over all home security interests. This agency has not
kept us safe. This agency has not stopped the stove piping by other agencies,
indeed it remains a problem. This agency has not been apolitical and this
agency is in charge of so many agencies, it stalls efficiency rather than
promotes it.
Unlike bloated corporations that realized in the 1990's that
they needed to downsize in order to run more efficiently, our government went
in the completely opposite direction by creating another layer to an already
multilayered, top heavy, bureaucratic hegemony.
There are only two things that get accomplished by creating
more and more departments in government, one, is to appear to the public that
you are responsive to their frustrations at your ineptitude and two, to create
another buck passing scapegoat, to further insulate politicians from scrutiny.
The Department of Homeland Security is another bureaucratic
layer created to supposedly make Americans feel safer after 911. The DHS has
control over our Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA), Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE), Transportation
Security Administration (TSA), United States Secret Service (USSS), Directorate
for Management, National Protection Programs Directorate Management, Domestic
Nuclear Detection Office, Office of Health Affairs (OHA), Science and
Technology Directorate, Office of Intelligence and Analysis, Office of
Operations Coordination, Office of Policy, Federal Law Enforcement Training
Center and of course (INS) Immigration and Naturalization. That's right, sixteen
agencies, that now have a new boss and a new finger of blame to avoid
accountability.
Is it any wonder why Americans see government as so
untrustworthy and inept? Isn't it amazing that government thinks growing more
bureaucracy will result in greater effectiveness? Instead of "leaner and
meaner" government thinks "bulky and bumbling" will allay the
public's distaste for unaccountable waste and fraud.
Isn't it time to
downsize our government and demand that it hire less department heads and put
more boots on the ground, at our border and ports, along with more deportation
magistrates?
Americans want simple straightforward immigration laws, that
cannot be politicized by either party. They expect our security agencies to
avail themselves with the latest technology equipment such as, smart green
cards, invisible fencing and sophisticated tracking devices. They want sanity
brought to the number of immigrants allowed into the country legally,
especially during slow economic times for citizens. They want immigration laws
enforced and they expect a required assimilation by immigrants that seek to
become citizens of our country. They want swift deportation to those here
illegally or shown to be in violations of their green card status requirements.
Can Americans have confidence in a big bloated,
multilayered, constantly expanding, bulky and bumbling, bureaucratic American
government? Well, if "too big to fail" is not tolerated in the
private sector, after the mortgage meltdown, and "too big to jail" reflects
Hillary's escape from prosecution that has created a belief in elitist's
inequality under the law, then the public should rightfully be looking at our super
sized government ship of state, as "too big to sail".
Freedom starts with respect for those that laid down their
lives for our Constitution and kept us a nation of laws, and our allegiance is
only toward a government that respects and adheres to our Constitution. Sadly
today, we see a growing disrespect for our Constitution and our country's
honored history by overpaid athletes, pampered activists, pretentious
professors, terrible teachers, pompous politicians, an imperious President and
a government filled with obfuscating officeholders.
It is time for the country to decide its fate. More sliding
down the slippery slope into the mouth of big government failure and tyranny or
dump it, bump it and Trump it. Wall Street and the Beltway, will just have to
lump it, because it is well past the time that main street, gets heard, loud,
clear and standing as it sings, the National Anthem.
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