"Congress for instance insists that the Homeland Security Department hand out the greater portions of budget in grants to state and local governments and private sector companies. But the mission of the Department of Homeland Security is to prevent another September 11, not to subsidize local fire stations. A dollar spent on preventing the next terror attack is vastly superior to spending dollars on recovering in the aftermath of an attack. In that sense, over investing in federal homeland security grant programs -- especially the first responder grants -- at the expense of the department's other priorities is not making us safer. "
Exactly.
We can afford the Congressional PORK SPENDING but we cannot afford agents and A CLOSED BORDER to protect our SECURITY? Do I smell hypocrisy here? Congress fiddles while the U.S. burns ??