AN EASY WAY TO REDUCE THE SIZE AND COST OF GOV'T

Here is a very easy way to reduce the size and cost of the Federal Government.

The recent potential epidemic relative to swine flu has caused great concern in the US. The Federal Government rightfully took extreme steps to combat this potentially devastating plague. All handled by our Homeland Security Secretary! Why Homeland Security and not Health and Human services? There is presently no confirmed head of that branch of the Government, and probably (by inference) no one sufficiently competent in HHS to perform tasks such as combating a flu outbreak. So it appears that we do not need the HHS leadership bureaucrats, simply assign tasking of a greatly diminished organization to some other group.

During the time that the Homeland Security secretary was busy with her important tasks such as blasting returning war veterans and accusing them of being weak minded and disloyal, then making inflamatory remarks about the Canadians, and now not controlling and managing the suspicious flights of large airplanes in the vicinity of tall buildings in New York City (and failing to even inform NYC's mayor of the flight), she was off assuring us that the HHS function of controlling swine flu was in excellent hands. It seems that this "Leader" of this very important Bureaucratic organization (Homeland Security) is really not necessary and has always been ineffective. So, maybe the leadership of Homeland Security is useless and the only effective people in that organization could be directed by some other organization within the Government.

At one time, the functions of Homeland Security was mostly handled by the Department of Defense and the Surgeon General of the US worked under DOD as well. Maybe we should consolidate the three agencies into one (DOD) thereby reducing at least 3 layers of supervision (very high priced bureaucrats) for the two totally ineffective heads.

I believe that presently, the head of DOD is a Bush Administration holdover. Hmmm. What does this tell you?