Streamlining Government

[Hubris Boy]

Good news! Previous administrations have talked about making the government more efficient... maybe this one's actually gonna try to do it!

Everybody's favorite Director of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, was speaking to the National Press Club yesterday about possibly reorganizing a few chunks of the Federal government:

"We may make some recommendations about the integration or consolidation of some of these departments that will certainly need congressional approval," Ridge said.

(You can read about it here if you're really curious.)

Great! Imagine how much more secure we'll all be when they get around to combining the FBI-CIA-NSA-ATF-NRO-INS into one tidy little package!

I'd like to stay and chat, but I must go and bury my firearms and my stockpile of Mercury dimes, silver dollars and krugerrands in the back yard.