Thank god they're not the 'Sexual' Congress or we'd never perpetuate the species...

In the wake of the tragedy that was September 11th, the U.S goverment did something remarkable: the legislative and executive branch actually came together and worked in a bipartisan fashion to protect America's cities. Together, they passed a whalloping funding bill to assist state and local authorities in terrorism prevention.

However, as the bill took time to pass, precious days and weeks ticked away from the events of 9/11 and the congressmen and women of our great land came out of their fair-minded stupor and returned to the 'cut as big a piece of the pie as you can' mentality that pervades the pork barrel department on a daily basis. So the money in the bill was split down not on a merit or needs basis, but on an equal share basis. That is, Montana would get as much money as New York.

Fear not, the Department of homeland security was created soon after and given a whopping budget. More iumportantly, the purse-strings were handed to Department Head Tom Ridge, not Congress. However, Tom is a former Governor, so maybe that is why he chose to divvy up the budget on an equal share basis and again, not on a needs basis.


The result (According to the New Yorker)? The average citizen in Casper, Wyoming gets over 38 dollars in federally funded terror protection money, the Average New york citizen gets just over 5.

Let me put that another way:
That Lincoln will buy you an emergency terrorism bagel with Philadelphia freedom cream cheese when they blow up the Republican convention next month.

On the flip side, when all the corn-fed hicks in Wyoming overreact to the terror attack and head into the hills in their Ford Expeditions, they can do it on a full tank of gas.