Homeland Security funds sno-cone machines and underwater robots

BIZPACReview.com ^ | 12/11/2012 | Cheryl Carpenter Klimek

[SmileRight]

At a time when national security remains a high priority, it seems that a $7.1 billion Homeland Security Department grant program would focus on terrorism. But according to an investigation by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK, the program paid for 13 sno-cone machines in Michigan, a $98,000 underwater robot in Ohio, and an armored vehicle in New Hampshire that patrolled a pumpkin festival.

Coburn’s report, “Safety at Any Price: Assessing the Impact of Homeland Security Spending in U.S. Cities” begins with this introductory letter:...

[SmileRight]

This is just one example of what has put us to the edge of the fiscal cliff. Government is seen as a giant piggy bank and anything goes when spending OPM (other people's money). So now that they have investigated, reported and ridiculed, what are they going to do about it?

[Cyber Liberty]

...13 sno-cone machines in Michigan...

Bet you didn't get one for your mobile kitchen, did ya?

[DBrow]

bfl

[a fool in paradise]

I could really use an underwater sno-cone machine and a robot that makes sammiches.

[Morris70]

Where I used to work they would get all kinds of stuff funded under homeland security propitiation’s using six degrees of separation. No scow cone machines though.

[TurboZamboni]

Snow cone machines are crucial to the war on terror.

jihadists hate those things as much as drones.

[Jack Hammer]

Homeland Security is a joke and a massive waste of taxpayer money; worse, it’s simply yet another means to hassle the law-abiding to justify an enormous budget and ludicrous payroll.

It should never have been created; having been created, it should be disbanded and the money diverted to something useful or - what an idea! - the money returned to the taxpayers who earned it.

[crosshairs]

Skittles and unicorns wasn’t enough?