Return to Article: Coast Guard: Proposed budget cuts would jeopardize mission
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Maybe the Coast Guard should stop taking on additional responsibilities and concentrate on its basic missions, such as search and rescue, fisheries protection, pollution clean-up, etc. It has moved in to take over law enforcement functions from the Customs Service and Immigration Service (now CBP and ICE), while complaining that it doesn't have enough funding for "homeland security". The last time I checked, federal law still requires arriving vessels to be boarded by a Customs officer, not the Coast Guard and the NYPD, as happened recently in New York. Also, the Coast Guard is beefing up its contingent of criminal investigators. Why? Let the Coast Guard continue its traditional missions and responsibilities, and not try to be all things to all people!
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The big question is "can we afford to not fund and therefore be without Deepwater"? Once again it appears our priorities are all wrong. We seem to have no problem in sending billions to Iraq and funding the building of a new American embassy there (which will probably be destroyed or taken over within the first year) yet when it comes to protecting our borders or securing the safety of our citizens we need a detailed report of how we're going to maintain the costs. Where was this same report prior to the invasion to Iraq?
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Deepwater in deepwater! This is great. God bless Congress. The Coast Guard got in bed with Lockheed on this to political support for big spending. Now they're screwed, it appears, which is good for the taxpayer.
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