> President Bush and Senate Democrats > disagreed sharply... about managing the > proposed Homeland Security Department, with > Bush saying he needs the greatest leeway to > combat terrorist threats. [/] The new > Cabinet-level agency "must be able to move > people and resources quickly, without being > forced to comply with a thick book of > bureaucratic rules," Bush said.... Bush has > demanded that the department's leaders have > broad powers to hire, fire, reassign, reward and > demote the agency's estimated 170,000 > workers, and to easily transfer money between > its programs.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Bush-Homeland-Security.html (1) Disempower the workers, including but not limited to disempowering unions. (2) Free the executive branch from Congressional budget control by making funds Congress appropriates available for anything the President wants to do. I think this, combined with Bush's foreign policy paradigm of "regime change" where he does not like the current regime gives more indication that he he taking the United States toward a global empire fascist dictatorship. To use a word that Blair used last week, in what sounded like he may contracted a mild case Bush's dyslexia, we "prevaricate" about the problem at our peril. Looks like political kudzu (and a precancerous lesion on the body politic) to me. \brad mccormick -- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/
