This is an old story but I found a video that I would like to post. So, NY gets the finger from Homeland Security. One must wonder why? Most Americans outside of politicians, if asked what American city do you think would be hit with the next terrorist attack, wound guess New York, Washington or possibly Los Angeles. So, one would figure that NY would get an increase in its anti-terror funding. That would be wrong. Their budget was cut by 40%!! Appeals have landed on deaf ears.
Decisions like these are why we will never get true Security around this country. Republicans are handing out Homeland Security dollars like they are rewards for great campaigning instead of measuring risk but then again, what do I know?
(This is Nancy Giles from the CBS Sunday Morning News.)
With the “You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” mentality that the federal government has over the money trail, it is not surprising to me that funding is being dangled over the state like some kind of ransom! THe state government is sopposed to be able to make their own laws, such as ones pertaining to gay marriage, drug legalization/enforcement, abortion, and other such, shall we say, touchy, subjects. However this is not so often the case. Funding will most likely be earmarked to those states accomodating the larger campaign contributers and those states that will provide the highest financial return. Most gov’t funding provides supposed economic benefits concentrated in a particular area, such as roads, (we all need MORE road construction!)education, etc, but is spread amongst ALL taxpayers. Well..except maybe the rich ones. However, you would think that a state such as NY would be more concerned with protection their cities from naother terrorist attack, not who has the biggest…bucks.