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The Bushites Have Outsourced Our Government to Their Pals

By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. Posted June 20, 2007.


The sprawling $43 billion homeland security department is known for being in charge of America's color-coded terrorist-threat alarm system, a sham that obscures HSD's real mission: to serve as a giant federal cookie jar for corporate America.
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From "The Hightower Lowdown," edited by Jim Hightower and Phillip Frazer, June 2007. Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of "Thieves In High Places: They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time to Take It Back."

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