New York Governor Pataki and Senators Schumer and Clinton have got their feathers ruffled because other states in the nation received a sizable increase in Homeland Security funds, to develop infrastructure and strategies to combat terrorism. These elitist blowhards made it clear their feelings about “the rest of us” who don’t live in New York.

Pataki and others declared that their home state had been stabbed in the back by the Department of Homeland Security, apparently several states have received a measurable increase in anti-terror funds…how can this be, postulated NY’s coalition of hack politicians.

As Senator Schumer noted, the State of Florida received a 22 % increase, while the Phalanx’s home state of Georgia received a 40% increase. The ever tactful Schumer wondered if “Georgia peanut farmers” were now at greater risk of a terror attack than NYC landmarks like the Empire State Building. Such a backward remark highlights the stupidity and elitist mentality of certain “political leaders.” The fact of the matter is, New York and Washington have received a sizeable share of anti-terror funds since 9/11, while other US states have received a disproportionately smaller, share.

The fact is some of America’s largest population centers have been neglected since the government began allocating such funds. Are Georgia peanut farmers at greater risk of terror attack? Probably not, but then again these anti-terror funds weren’t allocated to peanut farmers, they were allocated to urban centers. No peanuts aren’t at risk but perhaps the 4 million people in the nation’s 8th largest city, Atlanta, may be at risk, which is not home to a single peanut farm, but is home to the CDC and the world’s largest airport. Or perhaps the government may be concerned about security breaches at the nation’s 4th largest port facility in Savannah. As Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff noted, his department used an elaborate risk assessment algorithm to assess threat levels in determining fund allocations.

Aside from Atlanta, large cities in Florida (including Jacksonville), the Midwest and Plain States also received fund increases, to offset several years of receiving little or no funds, as capital projects in NYC were completed. These capital projects in NYC and DC are now finished, yet pork slingers like Schumer and Clinton want new pork projects developed to justify fund increases.

Is Chuck Schumer so foolish as to assume that the state that is most prepared to defend against a terror attack should continue to receive such disproportionate fund allocations while some of America’s largest states and cities in the Sunbelt and Midwest are ignored? Is Schumer so foolish as to believe that the terrorists are ignorant of demographics and geography? Perhaps Schumer isn’t foolish, perhaps he is just arrogant or perhaps he’s forgotten that America doesn’t begin and end at Times Square. While it is understandable that politicians want as much money for their constituents as possible, in order to help assure their reelections, why should the rest of the country be ignored, New York, after all has received twice as much as any other city, including Los Angeles.
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