Picking Up on the Homeland Security Funding Theme
I see that the folks at Enlighten-NewJersey have picked up on the Homeland Security funding issues in our great state. In their exellent post Enlighten says:
"We assume the state has analyzed security risks, developed a strategic homeland security plan, established programs to execute the strategy and has budgeted and funded security initiatives in order of risk assessment priority. We also assume transit security would have been high on the state’s list of priorities and homeland security funds have been spent accordingly."
I doubt it.
Last week in NJ Terror Thoughts I wrote about the political football that our representitives were playing with homeland security funds. My conclusion then,
"Planning for large terror attacks and making sure the proper resources are in place and available is the responsibility of our elected leaders. It's clear from previous revelations of Newark buying garbage trucks and cranes they can't use with anti-terrorism grants and from this article that many of our elected leaders could have innocent blood on their hands."stands today.
posted by RBM @ 9:48 AM
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2 Comments:
Although every representative in the New Jersey Legislature values his district over the ones of his colleauges, and pork barrel policies are certainly incorporated into homeland security bills, it's irrational to neglect the fact that the most populous and most vulnerable districts are controlled by Democrats. Therefore, it makes sense that Democratic districts get more funding than Republican ones. Come to Jersey Perspective for more insight. We welcome NJcon's comments as always.
My first thought was that the Dem districts need it more then I saw the following in the Ledger "...several instances in which comparable suburban districts controlled by Democrats received money, while Republican ones didn't.
For example, Somerville, Manville and South Bound Brook in heavily Republican Somerset County are similar in population and economics to three towns located not far away in Democratic Middlesex County: Edison, Metuchen and South River. The three Middlesex towns this year received $385,000 in state grants; the three Somerset towns got nothing."
It shows to me that New Jersey lacks a clear and comprehensive anti-terror plan.
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