I wish I were surprised that this isn't getting more coverage in the corporate media.

Bush Admin.To Cut Anti-Terrorism Funds (http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=7608276)

Posted: Jan 10, 2008 08:05 PM

The Bush Administration wants to cut Homeland Security money to cities across the country.

According to papers obtained by the Associated Press, the administration wants to reduce anti-terrorism funding by more than 50% next year.

States that expected to get more than $3 billion to protect against terrorist attacks would get $1.4 million instead.

It could mean agencies that have bought high-tech rapid response trucks, as Tucson has done, may not have the money to maintain the equipment years down the road.

::sigh:: There are so freaking many other places they could be cutting (and they SHOULD be cutting), and they pick one of the few things that I disagree with cutting. Silly.

It's about time that the Bush administration quit wasting our tax dollars on stupid crap like this! Gimme my check for some "good lovin'" tax rebates! I'm gonna head to Wally-world and buy me a damn decent TV to watch the superbowl on!

Hurry Up! Dip shits!

Isn't wally-world an amusment park from the National Lampoon's Vacation movie?

Isn't wally-world an amusment park from the National Lampoon's Vacation movie?

Slang in these parts for Wal-Mart... Home of the cheap China-produced electronics!

Slang in these parts for Wal-Mart... Home of the cheap China-produced electronics!

Ah!
Mea Culpa. I should have gotten that.

Yeah, Huckabee made that point in the debate last night, that many people would just take that check and spend it on stuff from China, so who's economy is it really going to stimulate?

Slang in these parts for Wal-Mart... Home of the cheap China-produced electronics!
don't sell them short. they sell nearly everything China makes:lolhit:

Originally Posted by mikezila
don't sell them short. they sell nearly everything China makes:lolhit:
That explains why the Toy Department has been renamed the Lead Department.

That explains why the Toy Department has been renamed the Lead Department.
i'm starting to think of renaming the whole damn thing China-mart...



there's a guerrilla campaign there somewhere...give me time to sort it out. i'm still working on getting GM to change their Chevy slogan.

I'm all in favor of cutting the spending -- the way funds are allocated is absurd.

For example:

Security Spending Initiates Disputes
Lawmakers to Debate How to Split Funds Among States, Cities

By John Mintz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 13, 2005; Page A15

Homeland security decisions have raised some very divisive issues -- from civil liberties to the U.S. treatment of immigrants. But the fur really begins to fly when Congress considers questions such as this: Why would the fire department in tiny Plankinton, S.D., population 567, need $52,688 in homeland security money for new fire equipment?

This week two congressional committees, one in the Senate and one in the House, will resume debate, and possibly close in on a settlement over how to divide homeland security money among states and communities. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, legislators from rural and sparsely populated areas have succeeded in arguing that their states should be guaranteed some portion of the money.

But elected officials from states such as New York, as well as the Bush administration, have long argued that funds should be apportioned according to the terrorism risk.

As it stands, Wyoming, which is not on anybody's short list of ground-zero targets, receives $37.74 per resident, and South Dakota gets $26.32 per capita.

Meanwhile, New York gets $5.41, and California -- another high-threat state, with targets such as Los Angeles International Airport and the Golden Gate Bridge -- receives $4.97.

This situation exists because of a provision inserted into every congressional homeland security bill since Sept. 11 that guarantees every state at least three-quarters of a percentage point of the funds from several of the largest homeland security grant programs.

How else to explain that the city of Grand Forks, N.D., received $200,000 in homeland security money for a bomb-dismantling robot, or, as reported on CBS's "60 Minutes," that Mason County, Wash., came to spend $63,000 for a decontamination unit nobody has been trained to use?

The commission that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks strongly recommended against continuing the guaranteed-minimum allotments to states, which it called "pork barrel" politics.

"In a free-for-all over money," the panel said, "it is understandable that representatives will work to protect the interests of their home states or districts. But this issue is too important for politics as usual to prevail. Resources must be allocated according to vulnerabilities."

Many homeland security experts have agreed with that sentiment for years.

"We need to put the nation's interests ahead of any parochial interests," said Daniel J. Kaniewski, deputy director of George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute. "Parochial interests are what we're seeing this week as the Congress takes up this debate."

rest of article (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47964-2005Apr12.html)

The Department of Homeland Security is a wasteful and unnecessary bureaucracy that should never have been created in the first place. The only thing better than cutting it's budget would be scrapping it altogether.

You're not against homeland security, are you sedan? You actually want terrorists to be able to just come in here at will and kill us? Think about the children, sedan!

I'm all in favor of cutting the spending -- the way funds are allocated is absurd. The Department of Homeland Security is a wasteful and unnecessary bureaucracy that should never have been created in the first place. The only thing better than cutting it's budget would be scrapping it altogether.

I completely agree. Basically, BushCo created a massive bureaucracy (based entirely on fear - ring any bells?) so Dubya could give his incompetent friends jobs.

:rant:

I think a Dept. of Homeland security could be good, if they allocated the funds more intelligently.

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Slang in these parts for Wal-Mart... Home of the cheap China-produced electronics!

Who makes American TV's ?
Don't say Curtis Mathis..

cool. maybe they'll screw up a little bit more and let us know when bush is gonna be in the area again like he was yesterday. from the greenbrier county airport to white sulpher springs where the greenbrier hotel is. missed my chance. but he had the area cussing him because of traffic backed up.

Who makes American TV's ?
Don't say Curtis Mathis..

Are there any televisions manufactured in the US?

cool. maybe they'll screw up a little bit more and let us know when bush is gonna be in the area again like he was yesterday. from the greenbrier county airport to white sulpher springs where the greenbrier hotel is. missed my chance. but he had the area cussing him because of traffic backed up.
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Are there any televisions manufactured in the US?

These may be the only ones....

http://www.predicta.com/index.shtml

I think a Dept. of Homeland security could be good, if they allocated the funds more intelligently.

Intelligently...How so.?
And try not to be a Smarty Pants.

These may be the only ones....

http://www.predicta.com/index.shtml

Hmm,kinda neato Retro.That late 50's Sci-fi retro look is
Very popular and also kinda Art Deco.
But any Analog TV will be unable to receive a standard FCC
UHF broadcast in a little more than a Year from now.
That is w/o a special converter box which will cost around $20.oo
I now return control of this Post,over to Y'all.
Yeeeeeee Haaaaaaaw !

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hey, look mister prez, a nice little nature trail.

Intelligently...How so.?
And try not to be a Smarty Pants.
I can't help being a smarty pants... It just comes naturally. ;)

There are some key areas where Homeland Security should focus, then then states should be ranked according to their threat assessment.

I aint sure what and where would be in which ranking but heres some top priority areas.

Border entry:
Land Border.
Airports.
Shippng Ports
anywhere that people actually enter the United States.

Areas of mass population:
Metro Areas.

Nuclear Power Installations.

Water supplies.

Research Facilities.

Fuel Supply depots and pipelines.

Earthquake Faultlines.

National Monuments.

The military can look after their own back yard.

I dont get it..

dharma criticizes the gov't for spending money on this war on terror

dharma criticizes the gov't for cutting funs on the war on terror...

I dont get it..

dharma criticizes the gov't for spending money on this war on terror

dharma criticizes the gov't for cutting funs on the war on terror...
:rolleyes: Yeah, because it's really that simple.

Being against the war in Iraq is not the same as not wanting the nation defended.

I dont get it..

dharma criticizes the gov't for spending money on this war on terror

dharma criticizes the gov't for cutting funs on the war on terror...
Decka listen.
A lot of Republican and/or Bush supporters wont give an inch on how Bush has handled things since 9/11.

But think about it, Bush invaded Iraq-when he should have been consitrating on AQ.

Which infacy allowed AQ to evade US troops, allowing them to become a sort of brand name for everything western-especially American.

All this BS about making America safer is simply that BS.
The man is a discraes to the Republican Party
The Presidency
and The United States
also the free world.

Dharma is a good American-why.
Because he sees what the Administration has done to 'America PLC'.

Maybe Im wrong-but I would expect himto say the same if Bush had been a Democrat.