In the short existence of the Department of Homeland Security, it has probably purchased more pork than Jimmie Dean. And now it's former first Director -- Tom Ridge -- is selling the Department as a potential buyer for pork barrel projects. Less that two weeks after leaving his government job as Homeland Security Secretary, Mr Ridge was hard at work for Security Technology Ventures -- a company anxious to sell the Homeland Security Department a boatload of anti-terrorism gadgets -- as their featured speaker at a Silicon Valley trade show.
At least Mr Ridge was honest. Last summer he said he couldn't get by on the piddling $175,000 a year salary of the nation's top anti-terror agency. And if he couldn't beat the pork barrel spending that plagued his agency -- at least he can join in on it.
And make a profit from your tax dollars. (SFBG.com)
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