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Originally Posted by Papa_Complex
All that I did was read what he typed. You seemed to find more than was there.
What Homeland Security was supposedly intended to do, and the reality, are vastly divergent. You don't need an entirely new department to do what you say was the originally intended function. I wonder how much money has been sunk into HS? It rankles at my innate fiscal conservatism.
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The different departments were supposed to work together before. They never did so effectively since they were never subordinate to those trying to get them to work together. Institutional barriers overcame any effort to change how things worked. By creating an additional department with oversight and control that barrier was supposed to be eliminated. It doesn't appear to have worked, but the milder form you are suggesting hasn't worked either.
As for the money, I believe DHS was supposed to save money by centralizing appropriations for a number of different departments in order to prevent redundant and unnecessary spending. That DHS doesn't appear to do that either shouldn't exactly come as a shock.