Posted on 06/07/2006 7:43:50 AM PDT by jackv
LAST week, the Department of Homeland Security announced $1.7 billion in new spending for state and local governments, including more than $700 million under our Urban Areas Security Initiative. Few readers may know it based on the news media reaction, but these 2006 grants continue a financing stream that places New York and Washington at the very top of the list in terms of money received. The terrorists who struck us on Sept. 11, 2001, and their allies continue to view New York and Washington as among America's prime targets. Therefore we have put our money where the threat is.
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Mr. Chertoff always seems to be off balance.
I think he sounds quite reasonable.
but smell like number 2
I tried, but I can't top that.
I agree. Let the word go forth: Paying overtime for union civil servants with no relation to homeland security will get your funding cut.
We're talking in the Dick Marcinko sense, right?
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