[golfboy]

New York won't be happy until they have 100% of the funding available, then they'll whine that there isn't more available.

I wonder if the Feds had audited the NY City to see how they're spending the money they've already been allocated.

[AppyPappy]

Yeah, let's find out where the money is going now. I bet ole Bloomy gets really quiet when they question gets asked.

[John W]

Their most raucous laughter was heard as they watched Bloomers on tv the other day during "The Stink".

[ErnBatavia]

Instead, we have seen huge sums of homeland security money spread across the country

Classic example of "all about me"...

[EQAndyBuzz]

"I wonder if the Feds had audited the NY City to see how they're spending the money they've already been allocated."

Was audited and reported about a year ago. Five years later they still haven't used the money for its intended use. It is a new sinkhole.

New Jersey's money went to Democrat districts and shut out Republican districts. Nothing was said or done about it.

[presidio9]

With all due respect, I submit that most of the terror funding should go to New York and DC. They are more likely to get hit than the rest of the nation combined. There are many reasons why Manhattan is the most likely target:

1) Osama bin Laden has said specifically that he will hit New York again.
2) Manhattan has a population density of 67,000 per square mile before you count the 1mm tourist who are in the city on any given day and the fact that commuters double the population every day. The next closest city is San Francisco with 16,000 people per square mile.
3) New York is the financial capital of the world.
4) The only city that can challenge NY for symbolic targets is Washington, DC.
5) All of the major news media outlets are headquartered in Manhattan, ensuring the fullest coverage.
6) The United Nations is headquartered in Manhattan.
7) New York is the cultural capital of the western world.
8) There are 2mm Jews living in NYC. There are 360,000 living in Tel Aviv.

There are many more, but you get the idea. Since 9/11 we have been able to prevent three attempted subway bombings that we know about (with one convicted terrorist being sentenced to 30 years yesterday), one plot against the Lincoln Tunnel, and one against the Brooklyn Bridge. That we know about. Obviously they are going to try again. Soon.
Is it possible that there is another Timothy McVeigh out there? Of course. But we know that a million or so Islamofacists are out there with an axe for us and especially Manhatttan. And that's what these funds were designed to protect us from.