Wednesday, May 31, 2006

It's pork over protection when there is an election

And the Washington Post reports on the latest efforts by Our Dear Embattled Leader to prove he is the Protecterator of His country.
The two cities attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, will receive far less antiterrorism money under plans unveiled today by the Department of Homeland Security, which has designated more money for many smaller cities throughout the country.

Washington and New York will receive 40 percent less in urban grant money compared to last year, with Washington dropping from $77 million to $46 million and New York falling from $207 million to $124 million, DHS officials said. The combined total means that the two areas bear almost the entire brunt of a $120 million cut in the overall budget for the program, the statistics show.
Let's face it, the great metropolis of East Bummfuque pop. 21,017 on a good day, is never going to be a target because those wo would do so don't know where it is. But politicians in a political year know exactly where it and thousands of locales like it are. And $120 million won't buy any votes in the Big Apple, but works wonders in small town America. And so the Potemkin War on Terra proceeds apace.

// posted by montag @ 7:37 PM
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# posted by Blogger Ole Blue The Heretic : 1:47 PM
 
How much money is Des Moines getting? I hear that it is a terror Mecca!

BTW I deleted the first post, I spelled hear as in here. Yea I know...stupid!
# posted by Blogger Ole Blue The Heretic : 1:49 PM
 

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