Your Homeland Security Money at Work

Props to AP:

_$345,000 for crashproof barriers and 60 closed-circuit cameras to monitor the University of Arkansas Razorback stadium, which local officials think could be a terrorist target.

_$5 million for the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology to buy a nearly deserted town to use for counterterrorism training.

_$70,000 for Huntsville, Ala. to create a fallout shelter in an abandoned mine where 20,000 people could take cover underground.

_Several South Florida fire departments have used Homeland Security grants to beef up their gyms. Pompano Beach, Fla., spent $220,000 on fitness equipment for a wellness program, training and physical exams.

Your Homeland Security funds at work. Can someone tell me why a terrorist would want to attack Razorback Stadium? Or why Huntsville, Alabama needs a fallout shelter? Gotta love these Bushies and our Congress-Critters: No money for childrens' health care, $220k for south Florida fire department gyms. I guess that's where those firemen calendars are shot.

The article has Democrats complaining about these budget cuts, using them as a chance to beat up on the Administration. Come on now! I don't mind one bit that some fireman in Florida doesn't get to bulk up on the latest equipment courtesy of Nosy in Denver! Sometimes even Bush gets it right (in the sense a broken clock is right twice a day, of course). But then, Homeland Security money has been free-flowing and only nominally overseen so it's been a great source of pork to buy towns in New Mexico and Nautilus machines in Florida. Sorry, Dems, you're wrong on this one. This spigot needed to be turned off.