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Today's Poll: Should the Department of Homeland Security be eliminated?

By Howard B. Owens
Don Vickers

The DHS umbrella is quite large and is responsible for many areas of homeland protection. There are some offices that are in our communities that don't advertise that they are DHS (no signs on the building and no flag pole out front, I happen to work in one) but still need protecting. DHS has their own police force to protect these offices and the people that work in them. I see nothing wrong with vehicles being purchased by DHS for their police force.

Dec 14, 2012, 9:52am Permalink
Jeff Allen

The bill that provides legitimate relief to farmers includes food stamp support, the emergency spending bill for Hurricane Sandy includes millions to repair a leaky roof on the Smithsonian museum that had nothing to do with the storm....so what exactly is going on here that is new or shocking from our pork fed federal bacon factory?

Dec 14, 2012, 11:52am Permalink
Howard B. Owens

I think the results of the poll is one more reason we are trillions and trillions and debt and always will be. One side or the other always loves big government. Every big government program that contributes to out-of-control spending has enough defenders that the program will never be cut. We didn't have a HS 12 years ago, now it's apparently indispensable.

As a nation, we're doomed. Out-of-control spending is a much bigger threat to national security than any terrorist or drug lord.

Dec 14, 2012, 3:38pm Permalink
david spaulding

well said howard.......how safe do we really need to be? we had plenty of security and more than enough police before the homeland security was drempt up and enacted.....just another false sense of security for the taxpayer...

Dec 14, 2012, 3:47pm Permalink
Raymond Richardson

"we had plenty of security and more than enough police before the homeland security was drempt up and enacted...."

And yet, that plenty of security and enough police, failed to catch the terrorists who boarded commercial jets in our own airports, and eventually took control of those planes, and flying two of them into the twin towers in lower Manhattan, one into the Pentagon, and who knows the intended target of the fourth one, as brave Americans on board that one made a move to prevent a fourth target from being struck.

For many decades we Americans have lived in a false sense of security, pre 9-11, and always thought we were invulnerable to terrorist attacks of this caliber. The warning signs was the discovery of a terrorist plot to bomb the WTC back in the 80s by radical, extremist Islamics, http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeli…

Dec 15, 2012, 8:10am Permalink
david spaulding

dhs is nothing more than a false sense of security....you go ahead and live in fear of some terrorist if you wish,i however will not..if the terorist makes it to my doorstep,so be it,it's time for me to go.in the mean time i will live in fear of the police state my goverment has been allowed to become.

Dec 15, 2012, 8:32am Permalink
Cory Hawley

Customs, Immigration, Border Patrol, Coast Guard, etc. have all been around longer than 12 years. Waaaaay longer. Do some research. Putting them under DHS didn't change what they stood for or enforced. So the question raised in this poll is a little vague or misleading. Howard, do you mean eliminate DHS and all it's parts (Customs/immigration, BP, Agriculture, Coast Guard, etc)? Or just the name "DHS"?

Dec 15, 2012, 8:49am Permalink
mike nixon

I will not depend on DHS. It is another defunct government waste management service supposedly for the people. I will however cling to my guns and religion.

Dec 15, 2012, 10:39am Permalink

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