I know the admin ref-but Bushies ? IS that a bean?

You should take the tin-foil hat off a second...You seem to give the government you dislike so much to much credit. Their is no conspiracy.

The bureaucracy is too large to allow such non-sense. There is too much money to be made post government work to jeopardise that for a few extra dollars now, with all the "conspiracy" work involved to boot.

I have colleagues in this business who quintupled their salary post goverment work as a first year lobbyist. I know the money is much better on this side, having "worked" for the US government, multi-national orgs, state and city governments. These SES and cabinet level folks stand to lose to much later trying to steal a bit of money now via some data mining operation. As bad as the idea is (It is bad, we have similar non-sense in some JAA operations here in Europe) it has no bearing on Kip or Chertoff upping their salary by buying off congress or the IRS- To many career officers of both parties to make it happen anyway.

EDIT- I realise it is the current flavour of the month to say "fire everyone" "TSA" sucks etc etc., but any kickbacks to these folks has to be cash under the table. They cannot up their salary. The US treasury does not work that way. And the whole concept you suggest is basically absurd. I am sure you will want to fire someone now...

Believe it or not, not everyone in the US government is out to get you personally...besides there are bigger fish to fry.

Criticise the program's merits or lack thereof to further the discussion. Provide your view on a solution, other than "firing" everyone, which is not realistic.



Ciao,
FH