Found this on the Secret Service Web site: "The mission of the United States Secret Service is to safeguard the nation's financial infrastructure and payment systems to preserve the integrity of the economy, and to protect national leaders, visiting heads of state and government, designated sites and National Special Security Events. "

I thought the Secret Service was exclusively charged with keeping important people safe. I didn't realize they had the responsibility for finances and payment as well. Maybe those should be two different departments of the government.

Because of the fire last week at the FAA center outside Chicago, they are having the President come through the Gary, Indiana airport which is really not that far from the south suburbs of Chicago. I think that's a good idea. Closer to his home. He's arriving tonight, attending a fund raiser for our governor's (who is a Democrat) re-election campaign and then he's speaking at Northwestern University tomorrow. So they will have to transport him a couple of times. It's a pain because they close the roads along his route, but there's no other way to keep him safe as he goes from place to place.