Homeland Security money

[UglyCasanova]

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Tiptonville, Tenn., probably isn?t on any terrorist map of potential targets. It?s not even on the rental car map, and neither is the road you take to get there.

Approximately 7,900 people live in the county, spread over 164 square miles, bordered by cotton fields and the Mississippi River. The nearest city, Memphis, is a two-hour drive.

Yet Tiptonville and Lake County are getting $183,000 in homeland security money from the federal government. And Mayor Macie Roberson believes it's money well spent.

If this isn't wasteful spending I don't know what is. I'm sure there are terrorist just crawling all over Tiptonville! I have no problem spending money on Homeland Security, but this is just absolutely insane imo.

 

[conjur]

Converse, Texas, first used its new homeland security trailer to transport riding lawn mowers to the annual lawnmower races.

Newark, N.J., spent a quarter of a million dollars on air-conditioned garbage trucks. In Columbus, Ohio, the fire department is buying bulletproof dog vests for its canine corps. And Mason County, Wash., famous mostly for its Christmas trees, spent $63,000 for a decontamination unit that no one?s been trained to use. It?s been sitting in boxes in a warehouse for a year.

Hazardous material suits are especially popular. Missouri spent $7.2 million for 13,000 of them, one for every law enforcement officer in the ?Show Me State.?

"In Des Moines, your taxpayer dollars went to purchase, among other things, to be prepared for a terrorist attack, traffic cones," says Cox.

What does that have to do with homeland security? "Well, you know, that's one of the beauties of homeland security," says Cox. "In the end, everything has something to do with homeland security."

Yay!

And, in the meantime, victims of crime are about to have the fund set aside for them and their families raided by the Propagandist.

 

[Tab]

What! You being un-american! Shame on you! If you don't like leave, stupid commies! All your doing is feeding the hate!

 

[Taejin]

Originally posted by: UglyCasanova
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Tiptonville, Tenn., probably isn?t on any terrorist map of potential targets. It?s not even on the rental car map, and neither is the road you take to get there.

Approximately 7,900 people live in the county, spread over 164 square miles, bordered by cotton fields and the Mississippi River. The nearest city, Memphis, is a two-hour drive.

Yet Tiptonville and Lake County are getting $183,000 in homeland security money from the federal government. And Mayor Macie Roberson believes it's money well spent.

If this isn't wasteful spending I don't know what is. I'm sure there are terrorist just crawling all over Tiptonville! I have no problem spending money on Homeland Security, but this is just absolutely insane imo.

Didn't read the article - but I saw something about this maybe a year ago or so. It's pretty old news, and apparnetly no one gives a damn.. :b

 

[Stumps]

haha...damn the US government sucks ass big time..that just make me appreciate our slack ass government even more...Glad I'm not a yank!

 

[nageov3t]

if you take away our traffic cones, the terrorists have won! :|

 

[dahunan]

Just more political ineptitude and thievery.... they are all scum thieves who were raised with a silver spoon in their mouths

 

[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: dahunan
Just more political ineptitude and thievery.... they are all scum thieves who were raised with a silver spoon in their mouths

Who, the podunks in nowhere Tennessee? 😕

This is just people being greedy in general. I mean you can try to point fingers and blame it on the rich or the right or the jewish gays that dress in drag, but there is a lot of money up for grabs and everyone wants a piece of it.

 

[DealMonkey]

Holy crap!

Newark, N.J., used $250,000 for air-conditioned garbage trucks.

Wow, nothing stops terrorists in their tracks faster than a garbage truck w/ AC a-blastin' on max ... oh brother, what a colossal waste of cash.

 

[dahunan]

Originally posted by: UglyCasanova

Originally posted by: dahunan
Just more political ineptitude and thievery.... they are all scum thieves who were raised with a silver spoon in their mouths

Who, the podunks in nowhere Tennessee? 😕

This is just people being greedy in general. I mean you can try to point fingers and blame it on the rich or the right or the jewish gays that dress in drag, but there is a lot of money up for grabs and everyone wants a piece of it.

How do you think the money was allocated? Favor and pork and patting each other on the back and dirty dealing by political mafia monsters

 

[mhillary]

Thats is some story.