Nine, You appear to live a very sheltered life, secure in your liberal fantasies. The facts are our country has always had high rates of gun ownership, as well as far worse poverty during many periods. Yet we had little to none of this out of control violence. What changed?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-...-interviewed-in-faulty-background-checks.html A perfect example of why requiring government background checks is largely a waste of resources. Those performing them are lazy inefficient unproductive and corrupt. Anthony J. Domico, a former contractor hired to check the backgrounds of U.S. government workers, filed a 2006 report with the results of an investigation. There was just one snag: A person he claimed to have interviewed had been dead for more than a decade. Domico, who had worked for contractors CACI International Inc. (CACI) and Systems Application & Technologies Inc., found himself the subject of a federal probe. U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, a Democrat from Missouri, has said that USIS is under criminal investigation by the inspector general for the company's "systemic failure to adequately conduct investigations." Domico is among 20 investigators who have pleaded guilty or have been convicted of falsifying such reports since 2006. Half of them worked for companies such as Altegrity Inc., which performed a background check on national-security contractor Edward Snowden. The cases may represent a fraction of the fabrications in a government vetting process with little oversight, according to lawmakers and U.S. watchdog officials. âThe process for granting security clearances across the federal government is broken,â Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, the top Republican on a Senate panel overseeing government contracting, said in an e-mail. Passing a government background check is a requirement before an employee or contractor can be granted a security clearance to access classified information. The process has been under increasing scrutiny since Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor who had worked for McLean, Virginia-based Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. (BAH), leaked secret documents on U.S. surveillance programs. Snowden held a top-secret clearance, and his background check was done by the USIS unit of Falls Church, Virginia-based Altegrity in 2011, according to Senator Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat. USIS, the governmentâs No. 1 provider of such work with $253 million in awards this year, is under investigation by an inspector general who has said there may have been shortcomings in the companyâs vetting of Snowden. Among the 10 background-check workers employed by contractors who have been convicted or pleaded guilty to falsifying records since 2006, eight of them had worked for USIS, according to the inspector general for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. The personnel agency is responsible for about 90 percent of the governmentâs background checks. In one case, Kayla M. Smith, a former investigative specialist for USIS, submitted some 1,600 falsified credit reports, according to the inspector generalâs office....
When ever you look under the rug of government you will find a pile of dirt. The bigger the rug gets the bigger the pile of dirt. It all gets swept under the rug. The only solution is to get a much smaller rug so the pile of dirt won't be so big.
When you start quoting an idiot like Denner it doesn't look good for you. Let me be straight with you, I was undecided on you, I give you credit for discussing the topic. Calling me "clueless" doesn't build your case. Suggesting Muslims should be banned from the US because a few Muslims are terrorists doesn't build your case. However, there are several frequent posters on here that YES, I am morally superior then they are ( some of these posters are clear racists ). Others spew a lot of hate ( hence I block Denner because not only is he a hateful man he's a terrible market forecaster too ). This forum is an embarrassment really on this section. If I incur the wrath of others because I stand up to racism well I'm fine with that. Its called standing up for what is right.
How can that answer be irrelevant when the thread topic is about it? The moors, Ghengis Khan and the comment about Nazis was all irrelevant. Do try to keep up, old chap.
Then you should have ignored the reply which used the Nazis as an example, and you should have ignored my reply to you. Do try to pace yourself, kid.