PORK BARREL SPENDING OF HOMELAND SECURITY FUNDS:
With little accountability for how they spend their homeland security dollars, states have been having a field day.
Colorado blew through $130 million before lawmakers even realized that the state had no homeland security plan.
Even though it is a landlocked state, Oklahoma was given nearly three quarters of a million dollars designated for port security.
Madisonville, Texas spent $30,000 on a custom trailer for its annual mushroom festival and a county director in upstate New York spent nearly as much on a brand new pickup truck for himself.
Meanwhile, the Northern Mariana Islands, a favorite locale of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX), will be getting $4 million.
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So they all ought to go to jail for misappropriating funds. Right? Right. But will they? You gotta be kidding...
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