{"id":2592,"date":"2013-07-16T22:06:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T22:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=2592"},"modified":"2013-07-16T22:06:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T22:06:17","slug":"the-case-for-abolishing-the-dhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/07\/16\/the-case-for-abolishing-the-dhs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case for Abolishing the DHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano resigned to take up a post running California\u2019s university system. With her departure, there are now 15 vacant positions at the top of the department. That suggests it would be a particularly humane moment to shut the whole thing down. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security was a panicked reaction to the Sept. 11 attacks. It owes its continued existence to a vastly exaggerated assessment of the threat of terrorism. The department is also responsible for some of the least cost-effective spending in the U.S. government. It\u2019s time to admit that creating it was a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry130716-200104\">The Case for Abolishing the DHS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano resigned to take up a post running California\u2019s university system. With her departure, there are now 15 vacant positions at the top of the department. That suggests it would be a particularly humane moment to shut the whole thing down. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security was a panicked reaction to the Sept. 11 attacks. It owes its continued existence to a vastly exaggerated assessment of the threat of terrorism. The department is also responsible for some of the least cost-effective spending in the U.S. government. It\u2019s time to admit that creating it was a mistake. via The Case for Abolishing the DHS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[572],"class_list":["post-2592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-dhs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}