[RenegadeRick]

Bush: Gimme More Iraq War $$, Or I'll Starve Domestic Anti-Terror Programs
The Bush administration intends to slash counterterrorism funding for police, firefighters and rescue departments across the country by more than half next year -- even as the president increases his pressure on congressional Democrats to approve new money to fund the war in Iraq "without strings and without delay" before leaving for the Christmas holidays -- according to budget documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The Homeland Security Department has given $23 billion to states and local communities to fight terrorism since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, but 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 department wanted to provide $3.2 billion to help states and cities protect against terrorist attacks in 2009, but the White House said it would ask Congress for less than half — $1.4 billion, according to a November26 document.

So if W was really concerned about Homeland Security, wouldn't he want this money spent at home instead of being sent to the other side of the planet to support a pointless and illegal war?

 

[LordOpie]

Wow, a fiscally responsible move by this admin? I'm speechless.

 

[X3pilot]

The Homeland Security Department has given $23 billion to states and local communities to fight terrorism since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, but 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.


OMG some of the silly things little podunk towns have bought with this $$ cause their representative found a new way to "earmark" money.

WWRPD



What would Ron Paul Do?

 

[Transcend]

Wow, a fiscally responsible move by this admin? I'm speechless.

Well, fiscally responsible would have been not wasting 450+ billion dollars on a war that doesn't matter thousands of miles away. And then vetoing health-care bills for children.

 

[Transcend]

WWRPD



What would Ron Paul Do?

He'd claim that he would eliminate all government earmarks because they are ALL fiscally irresponsible and without the IRS, FBI and CIA the USA would be broke so they wouldn't need to defend themselves. Who steals from poor people?

Then he'd discuss his tinfoil hat folding strategies.

 

[LordOpie]

Well, fiscally responsible would have been not wasting 450+ billion dollars on a war that doesn't matter thousands of miles away. And then vetoing health-care bills for children.

Hey, I'll take whatever tiny bit of rational thought comes out of this admin.

 

[X3pilot]

$50,000,000 to provide an exercise program that meets the intent of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990

$30,000 for a Tennessee high school to have a defibrillator on hand for a basketball tournament

$20,000,000 to renovate the Nebraska Avenue Headquarters of the Department of Homeland Security

$98,000 for on training courses by the Tecumseh, Michigan, fire department--that no one attended

$900,000 to the Steamship Authority that runs ferries to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts


Anyway we could save Iraq AND Homeland Security money???