Feeling Safer Yet?
Mar 16th, 2006 at 8:44 pm by Susie
I can’t anyone still listens to them about anything at all:
Moments ago, the House of Representatives narrowly defeated an amendment proposed by Rep. Martin Sabo (D-MN) that would have provided $1.25 billion in desperately needed funding for port security and disaster preparedness. The Sabo amendment included:
– $300 million to enable U.S. customs agents to inspect high-risk containers at all 140 overseas ports that ship directly to the United States. Current funding only allows U.S. customs agents to operate at 43 of these ports.
– $400 million to place radiation monitors at all U.S. ports of entry. Currently, less than half of U.S. ports have radiation monitors.
– $300 million to provide backup emergency communications equipment for the Gulf Coast.
Meanwhile, the Bush budget – which most of the members who voted against this bill will likely support – contains an increase of $1.7 billion for missile defense, a program that doesn’t even work.
See, that’s what happens when you don’t know jack about science. I’m not saying that we elect Stephen Hawking, but we need a President who has the capacity to understand that global warming is bad, the earth is more than six thousand years old, and missile defense doesn’t /work/!
Yea, for starters … (and then …everything else)