We get $5-a-head for security (New York - Wyoming gets $38)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/139687p-123976c.html

New York, the world's premier target for terror, gets less homeland security funding per person than virtually any state in the nation.
Man for man and woman for woman, Wyoming (population 493,782) does better - $38.31 per person, compared with the paltry $5.47 in counterterrorism funds spent on each New Yorker.

"Every square inch of Wyoming is as vulnerable as every inch of New York," Joe Moore, Wyoming's director of homeland security, told the Daily News. "If you say there are no terrorists in Wyoming, that's just where they'll strike."

So far, though, whatever threat Osama Bin Laden and his terrorist minions pose for Wyoming lurks primarily in the minds of its politicians. New York, on the other hand, has been targeted five times and suffered two horrendous attacks, including, of course, the one on Sept. 11, 2001.

Yet New York goes begging while Cheyenne, Wyo. (population 53,200), now boasts two gleaming, state-of-the-art bomb squad units, special equipment for neutralizing bombs and a new communications system for its 90-member police force, said Police Chief Robert Fecht. And the department expects to receive still more special equipment when a second grant is approved.

[Rose Siding]

1. This must be the official HS resource map

[kalashnikov]

2. Cheney used to be senator from.....

you guessed it, wyoming.

[JoFerret]

3. This is an important issue

Homeland Security money needs to go where the real needs are. New York CITY is certainly one such place. Let's keep the pressure up on this one.