Top Secret America

**maxx** · January-03-12, 05:22 PM

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/t...eyond-control/

"...The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work...."

[When Reps. start acting all thrifty and assert that Soc. Sec. costs too much, someone should bring up the huge bureaucracy that has grown around homeland security and most of the employees are paid twice or 3x the salary of a gov. employee.]

**ordinary** · January-03-12, 08:22 PM

We are no longer a country. We are an empire. That's what happens when a country becomes an empire.

**Danny** · January-04-12, 12:39 PM

It falls like Rome!

**ordinary** · January-06-12, 09:46 AM

Originally Posted by Danny

It falls like Rome!

I know you like revolution and all that but it probably won't. We'll be more like England.

**rb336** · January-06-12, 10:02 AM

Originally Posted by maxx

[When Reps. start acting all thrifty and assert that Soc. Sec. costs too much, someone should bring up the huge bureaucracy that has grown around homeland security and most of the employees are paid twice or 3x the salary of a gov. employee.]

this is one of those rare topics on which i agree with ron paul. the dems are also on board with the secret government