NationStates Jolt Archive

I don't know if this has been mentioned yet.

As a New Yorker, I'm more than a little upset. Opinions?

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-05-31T224138Z_01_N31249660_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-USA-FUNDING.xml&archived=False

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/31/AR2006053101364.html

New York's grant plummeted from about $207 million to $124 million. A DHS risk scorecard for the city asserted that the home of the Empire State Building and the Brooklyn Bridge has "zero" national monuments or icons.

How much are they spending to protect Iowa?

finally.

How much are they spending to protect Iowa?
Enough to build a tower to space.

Maybe their thinking is lightning never strikes twice...

If you see that the money is being redirected to places like Jacksonville, Florida...

gee, I distinctly remember Harry Reid claiming that no money was being spent to beef up port security in places like Jacksonville.

So, we move the money to where the complainers say the next attack will come, say, on the advice of the psychic Harry Reid.

Now they complain that we're moving the money to the wrong place.

If money was all it took to stop terrorist attacks, there wouldn't be any terrorist attacks.