Have BushCo significantly increased port security spending?

[Fire Walk With Me]

Has any money been provided and if so how much, and also in terms of other aspects of security? We have allowed them to shuffle billions of the Treasury into Mil/Indus pockets, so how much has gone into actually attempting to prevent another attack within the United States? Does it even approach realism or is it utterly insufficient?

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peake/21

[jannyk]

1. the check bounced n/t

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. That's actually a good point. The economy is in real trouble if they continue spending

for two more years.

Now about security spending versus transfers to the Mil/Indus complex?

[Le Taz Hot]

3. Actually, on the Left Coast,

funding for was REDUCED from Long Beach (huge, major port), Oakland and, iirc, Seattle. DHS has been nothing but a slush fund for Republican district pork. California, as usual, is being "punished."

[KKKarl is an idiot]

4. John Clancy

wrote a book about a Japanese soldier flying a plane into the Capitol building a few years prior to the 9/11 disaster. He also wrote a book about a nuclear weapon entering the USA through a port & being detonated in Baltimore. If a writer of fiction can see a danger why can't the US government do more to defend the ports. The fact is we are spread to thin. Not enough money to help protect us because we are making our country less safe by being in a stupid war.

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. Good Points. And we need to look at it now, instead of bemoaning it when it's too late.

So it's way out of proportion, quite obviously so? There is nothing in Iraq except oil and future terrorists by our hand.

Note that if there is another attack, that BushCo and their base will profit. This appears to be all that they care about, and is all that they do. If it appears obvious now, we need to do something to protect ourselves where the government can't/won't. It's our responsibility to take care of ourselves as best we can. If something happens, we can't blame those who stand to profit for not protecting us.

[leesa]

6. None of the Homeland Security projects have been properly funded.

Port security was one of the worst.