Tim Ryan: “We had a wonderful, and I am going to share this with the Speaker and the House, we had a wonderful conversation about…”

“We had a wonderful, and I am going to share this with the Speaker and the House, we had a wonderful conversation about three weeks ago with Alvin Toffler, who wrote ``Future Shock,'' and then wrote this new book, ``Revolutionary Wealth.'' And he goes into how civilization during the Industrial Age was much different than it is now. He used the example of 9/11, about how this decentralized, information-based, cells popping up al Qaeda, basically a private group, moved money and information around the world on cell phones and very decentralized, attacked us. And our response was to build a 20th- century pyramid bureaucracy called the Department of Homeland Security because that is what we know how to do. We know how to build these bureaucracies. And how we are living in an age that no longer represents, those kind of bureaucracies no longer address the needs of the American people. So this audit and what Mr. Tanner and Mr. Cardoza are trying to do is squeeze this government, squeeze these bureaucracies, get the fat out of them and find out where we can gain resources and invest them into the new programs, the new technologies, the new ways of doing things. And Democrats are for this. And I am excited about this summer and this fall for us to go around the country and talk about this new approach that we have because people say, oh, the Democrats aren't going to do it. We are experiencing the implementation of the neoconservative agenda right now. They haven't done anything.…”