Hello:
I've been reading on our threads how bummed out our resident righty's are about the growth of government. They tell us they want a SMALL government. But, they DON'T. They want a LARGE government when it comes to your privacy. They WANT government peering into your bedrooms, listening to your phone calls and reading your emails... They think THAT'S just fine...
I don't. Sounds like the USSR to me. They tortured people too, didn't they?
The Washington Post discovered a Top Secret America hidden from public view and totally lacking in oversight. After nine years of
unprecedented spending and growth, the result is that the system put in place to keep the United States safe is so massive that its effectiveness is impossible to determine.
The investigation's other findings include:
* Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States.
* An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances.
* In Washington and the surrounding area, 33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work are under construction or have been built since September 2001. Together they occupy the equivalent of almost three Pentagons or 22 U.S. Capitol buildings - about 17 million square feet of space.
Yeah, small government indeed! Looking more and more like the USSR!!
excon