Better shread than dead?

The liberal blogosphere is all agog at the news that document shredding tncreased 600% under George W. Bush.

Nefarious? Or maybe $2.7 million on shredding is not that much out of a trillion dollar plus federal budget. If the US government really did spend that little on shredding there simply would not be as many shredding companies in business as there are.

And even if there has been an increase in shredding, is this a bad thing considering the rising problem of identity theft?