Comments on: White House Wants To Cut Anti-Terror Funds

Bush Admin. Would Eliminate Port Security Programs, Local Emergency Management Ops

[jrw27]

By saying such you suggest that the next 9-11 type mishap is the responsibility of the state that misallocated the funds? I hope its not Washington D.C. One of the most likely targets; indeed, an orginal target.

[sbb2211]

Sorry, that should have been ''paid'', not ''payed''.

[sbb2211]

It makes sense to cut back on funding. By now, the states should have built up their security infrastructure. All they need is funding to maintain that level.

It is similar to buying a car. Once payed for, do you keep budgeting the same amount yearly? No, you budget only for maintenance and upkeep.

If the states blew that money on other stuff, that''s their fault. It was given to them for security spending, nothing else.

[jrw27]

It was convenient enough for the Bush administration to licentiously blow billions of dollars at the pain of the taxpayer ever since 9-11, with national security as the red herring. Now shall they dump the Homeland Security budget just as the newly elected President assumes the watch? We''ve put up with it this long. Perhaps in 2009 these appropriations will finally be spent legitimately. At any rate, port security, our borders so porous, is the last budget needing to be sacrificed. Because, six years beyond the patriot act, the end of the war against terror appears nowhere in sight. Al Quaida is as ubiquitous and illusive today as they ever were. By slashing the Homeland Security budget so late, with to little accomplished, the Bush Adminstration looks politically driven, yet counterintuitive to the real needs of the American people. Have such anti- partisan political tactics characterized the Bush Administration all along?

[ontheleft]

Go ahead and cut the funding. North Dakota already got its share of money to buy night vision goggles to help protect the cows from terrorists. West Virginia has its own armored tank so it can plow into any terrorist trying to harm the Hatfields or the McCoys.

[searingtruth]

"... He is skating on very dangerous ice if he gets law enforcement against him...especially the port authoriies."
RowdyTexan2


Dictator Bush runs a global network of secret prisons where anonymous American and foreign citizens who have been illegally abducted are indefinitely detained without charge or representation, regularly tortured, and often murdered.

I''m sure he is not in fear of the Port Authority, or any authority whatsoever, save his own.
ST


"Who would say freedom is not free, with the price being freedom itself."
SearingTruth

A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com

[rowdytexan2]

I agree. This is just another one of Mr. Bush''s tantrums.

First he tells the pentagon to fire all the civilian military personnel.

Now he''s taking back funds from law enforcement.

All just to show he can punish those who will not allow his war profiteering to continue.

He is skating on very dangerous ice if he gets law enforcement against him...especially the port authoriies.

[starleo146]

The Homeland Security Department has given $23 billion to states and local communities to fight terrorism since the Sept. 11 attacks, but one document says the administration is not convinced that the money has been well spent and thinks the nation''s highest-risk cities have largely satisfied their security needs.
The administration is not sure that the money has been well spent. I think we need to check on the money allocated to Homeland Security I am not sure some of that money , our social security money and any money allocated for one thing hasn''t gone to Iraq.They are cooking the books that is what all these cut backs are. ENRON!!!!

[searingtruth]

Aaahhh ....

Confusion.

Tyrannys best friend.

But not to worry. A dictator has no need for civilian police, firefighters, or rescue departments.
ST


"And so together we shared the fate of all the failed democracies before us, joining those pitiful beings who had held the light of freedom in one hand, and put it out with the other."
SearingTruth

A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com

[tomtomasters]

The idea is to cut funding in order to smuggle WMD out of the USA.

[ioweign]

ust putting distance on the spending.

Once a contract is closed, no one digs them up to review them. They''''re hoping that if they cut the funding NOW, no one will investigate in 2009 where it all went in 2007.

Regards,

Posted by Nancy_Naive at 05:53 PM : Dec 01, 2007



I do enjoy your view on events !!

[radiob-2009]

Tell the FBI, CIA, NSC, et,al to do their jobs and share info then get rid of Homeland Security since they are the start of Big Brother (1984) and the whole nation will be better off and have money left over.


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Posted by ToolMangler


Bring back Richard Clarke as the terrorist czar?

[idlepugilist]

Twisted priorities at every level. "As of Friday, Nov. 30, 2007, at least 3,881 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians." This is the President''s answer to not getting his way with his military funding request. That''s ok, Mr. Pres, we understand the need to cut funding when spending atrocities are exposed, but this does fly directly in the face of your bedroom buddies at Haliburton.

[toolmangler-2009]

Tell the FBI, CIA, NSC, et,al to do their jobs and share info then get rid of Homeland Security since they are the start of Big Brother (1984) and the whole nation will be better off and have money left over.

[pared1]

The Bush administration has been a joke from day one why should this surprise anyone?

[gkc99]

Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars are funneled by the Darth Bushit administration to cronies Blackwater to provide security to US bureaucrats who are "too good" to be guarded by US Marines.

But the Mexican border is wide open, nukes could come in on container ships, and Bushit cuts this program?

Guess there aren''t enough Neoconscum cronies making out like bandits to suit the Bushits.

[ioweign]

The Homeland Security Department has given $23 billion to states and local communities to fight terrorism since the Sept. 11 attacks, but one document says the administration is not convinced that the money has been well spent and thinks the nation''s highest-risk cities have largely satisfied their security needs.

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And the LIVES and MONEY going into Iraq IS money well spent ??????

[denn034]

The "one document says the administration is not convinced that the money has been well spent and thinks the nation''s highest-risk cities have largely satisfied their security needs" explanation is sufficient for me.

[myidoncbs]

"White House Wants To Cut Anti-Terror Funds"

Guess who Bush & Cheney REALLY work for! (Hint: It ain''t the USA or its people!)

[ubrew12]

j-whitman said: "Where does a country go to report a rape ??"

It''s always the rape victims fault. That''s taught in Bushie101.