Department of homeland security?
Start with how much money we waste every year on the BS. Then maybe talk about how they trample our rights using tools like the Patriot Act!
Department of Homeland Security?
The DHS was something that eventually would have happened even if 9/11 did not. We had simply too much duplication of effort (for example INS, Customs, and the Border Patrol each performing immigrationa and border protection duties) as well as agencies with conflicting mandates (such as the INS which was both an enforcement agency for illegal aliens and a service agency for legal aliens). And to even make this even more muddled - the State Department was the agencey that approved visas into the US (generallly without consulting anybody else). The Coast Guard was under the Commerce department, FEMA was on their own, avaition security was mismanaged by the FAA, and nobody was paying attention to the security of any other form of transportation. Disaster communications were under the control of the US Forrest Service (whose radios could not communicate with anybody else's). In effect the US government's efforts to protect the people of the US from natural disasters, large scale accidents and terrorism was a muddled mess. The reorginization of all these agencies resulted in one single agency (US Customs and Border Protection for example now combines the border and port-of-entry functions that were previously performed by three agencies). The ironic thing is that the DHS now not only does a better job at these functions - but the elimination of duplication and the streamlining of services means that the do it for ~15% less of our tax dollars. Edit for beachbum: You really need to look at a federal government orginizational chart. The Department of Education is a 'Cabinet-level' orginization and thus does not fall under DHS.