4.13.2005

Security Spending Initiates Disputes

Wyoming, which is not on anybody's short list of ground-zero targets, receives $37.74 per resident, and South Dakota gets $26.32 per capita. Meanwhile, New York gets $5.41, and California, another high-threat state, with targets such as Los Angeles International Airport and the Golden Gate Bridge receives $4.97.

The bulk of Homeland Security money doesn't go where the threatened targets (blue states) are located because it's not about your safety, it's all about the Republican majority's safety (red states).
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