I am certainly relieved to know that my country's bureaucracy is looking out for our financial welfare and putting a stop to this terrorism/fraud! May the SS and the Homeland Security continue to reign supreme and tuck my blanket in nicely around me!
Okay, sarcasm button turned off and removed now.
Hey, as a native New Yorker and transplanted-would-be-redneck, I take umbrage!
It's not our fault that East Bumf*ck, Miss. doesn't have a Hazmat crew or proper radiological emergency arrangements, but excuse us while we sratch our heads trying to figure out why any self-respecting terrorist would want to set off a dirty bomb in rural Arkansas (besides it being the incest capital of the country).
Got news for ya: New York was attacked -- Little Rock, Raleigh, Stone Mountain and Texarkana weren't. I don't disagree with the notion that Homeland Security money does need to be more fairly (and wisely) distributed, but please don't treat the deaths of 3,000 people so cavalierly and sarcastically.
We can agree to disagree, but people died, even in a city with a 30,000 member police department and all the services modern society seems to require.
Oh, and by the way; New Yorkers pay far more in federal taxes than they ever seem to get back from the government. Just something to remember while you get your free tax-payer-paid for flu shots and surplus cheese, courtesy of the folks who work for a living on Wall Street, the engine of American economic growth.