June 12, 2006

IT WAS JUST RACISM, NO ONE THOUGHT IT WAS ABOUT SECURITY:

Port talk is cheap (Seattle Times, 6/12/06)

Congress talks a good game about improving national security but the talk becomes hollow when the government fails to provide adequate funding to protect vulnerable ports and port cities.

By slashing nearly $650 million in new money for port security, the federal government is saving money at the wrong time and in the wrong place. [...]

All the bipartisan rhetoric about beefing up homeland security, all the indignation and outrage about Dubai Ports World making our country vulnerable, becomes empty when federal funding fails to materialize. This was an investment of federal dollars that made sense.

How's that port sale going, by the way..... Posted by Orrin Judd at June 12, 2006 7:55 AM
Comments

As if that funding would have made any difference. As so many predicted from the start, the DHS has done far more to spend money than to improve security.

Posted by: Annoying Old Guy at June 12, 2006 10:01 AM

It wasn't supposed to improve security, just take away an issue from Democrats and get civil service reform through the back door.

Posted by: oj at June 12, 2006 10:07 AM

So now civil service reform is a gay rights issue?

Posted by: obc at June 12, 2006 11:09 AM

oj,
I have noticed that you are commenting on more and more articles from the Seattle Times. Has the paper become your one-stop-shop for up-to-date liberal idiocy? There certainly are a lot of fish in that barrel.

Posted by: Patrick H at June 12, 2006 11:42 AM

I just sign up for e-mail newsletters and let the silliness come to me.

Posted by: oj at June 12, 2006 11:47 AM

And the Times is the 'sane' paper in Seattle too...

(when compared to the Hearst Post-Idiot).

Posted by: TimF at June 12, 2006 12:26 PM
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