Summary
The impossible job of homeland security is apparent to anyone who considers the number of ways terrorists could attack any large group of Americans on their own turf. Subways and buses are now obviously vulnerable, joining airplanes and trains. Or, if people aren't the immediate targets then it could be fuel lines, transportation systems, government facilities and so on. But for all the complex, multi-layered, interlocking means of protection necessary to attempt to protect the nation, the one measure politicians and pundits use to judge effectiveness is money. Specifically, who gets the funding?
The answer is that no one gets enough. There's never going to be enough money because the number of possible risks is endless, but the funding is even lower now than previously. More to the point, senators representing states with large urban areas believe too much is going to low-risk places - places such as Maine. When the Senate passes a bill that sends security money to all states, as happened recently, the sophisticated will tsk-tsk and say there goes the Senate again, loading up the rural pork barrel when lives are at stake.See the full content of this document
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Security, Urban and Rural
The breakdown actually is this: 60 percent of Homeland Security grants are distributed based on risk. O...
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