Innovation is the key and here is why. For example millions has been spend on the development of machines to detect bombs. The machines we have don’t work very well and are very expensive. But the Israelis have been using bomb-sniffing dogs successfully for years. Yes we have bomb sniffing dogs but what’s new here is we don’t seam to know how important they are or how to use them. The dogs are not nailed to the floor like a machine they can find a bomb in a few minutes from a distance in a crowd of people and in a stacks of luggage. Show me a machine that can do that. What Homeland Security should do is take one of those closed military bases and begin raising and training dogs. They should train thousands of them enough for every major airport and all subway entrances. Its the cheapest protection that money can buy. Dogs can be trained to find unique chemicals they even detect cancer in humans.

Like our Coast Guard we should beef up our Boarder Guard to stop all illegal immigration. We should setup employment offices on the border for American employers who want to hire aliens legally. There is no reason to have Mexican illegal aliens dieing in our southwest desserts year after year. Our Mexican and Canadian borders could also be patrolled using unmanned aircraft which can stay aloft for many hours with monitoring cameras both day and night.

We need a national identity card that is counterfeit proof that works in conjunction with your eye or by thumb print. The advantage is that your bank will know who you are and at the airports those with cards can go to the head of the line.

The media has identified 25 nuclear storage sites at universities that are left unguarded the perfect supply depot for those wanting to make a dirty bomb. Where is our Homeland Security the least they can do is find out what’s going on before the media delivers another blow.

Congress seams to be unable to determine the type of threat faced in various parts of the country. What we know about our terrorist enemies is that when they decide to use a regular bomb they even count the number of people who will be walking in the street in order to determine the most deadly time to set off the bomb. They want to kill as many Americans as they can not American cows. Wyoming got 35 dollars per person for terrorist response and New York got 5 dollars per person.

The FEMA bureaucratic blunder dubbed by the media as the “FEMA Ice Follies” apparently went on for months. Here is what happened. When hurricane Katrina was approaching a computer “told” FEMA authorities how many truckloads of ice to order for disaster relief including enough for the city of New Orleans. When 80% of New Orleans was evacuated they only needed about 40% of the ice. But instead of admitting their mistake and letting the ice melt they solved the problem by moving the trucks all over the country with their refrigerators running 24 hours a day waiting for the next hurricane. At last 250 truckloads were found in Maine many more in other states at a considerable distance from the gulf coast. To top things off FEMA paid $35 thousand for each truck load of ice which regularly costs only $6 thousand. You could dismiss this a mistake that could have been made by any organization except for the fact that bureaucracies are known for their lack of common sense. This is a direct result of a bureaucracy’s robotic behavior of rigidly following a set of rules in this case a computer printout a common occurrence found in nearly all large bureaucracies.