Wednesday, November 10, 2004

How Washington's Spending Your Homeland Security Money

Remember New York City? Ground Zero? Target number one on al Qaeda's hit list?

They're struggling to find the money for police officers and firefighters to pay for their own War on Terrorism. Washington's spending billions to help local governments pay for protection against terrorists. But it's not going to places like New York.

The Tecumseh Fire Department in rural Michigan used $98,000 of your tax dollars to hold training courses on incident management. No one showed up.

Lake County, Tennessee used $30,000 of your money meant to respond to terrorist attacks to buy a defibrillator for a high school basketball tournament.

Washington state spent $63,000 of your money on a decontamination unit for their haz-mat team. The unit's in a warehouse collecting dust because the state doesn't have a haz-mat team.

The New York Daily News looks at a long list of wasteful spending on on items that have little or no use in battling terrorism. (New York Daily News)

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