Feds to NY: Drop Dead
Jun 1st, 2006 at 9:11 am by Susie
Do you ever get the feeling you’ve seen this before? Today’s NY Daily News:
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told New York to drop dead yesterday as he slashed the city’s federal anti-terror funding in a traitorous action that endangers the lives of 8 million people and demands his immediate firing.
Chertoff’s decision to cut the flow of U.S. money by 40% was at the least gross incompetence and at the worst vengeful payback by a petty bureaucrat who tangled last year with the NYPD and wound up humiliated. Either way, President Bush must give Chertoff the boot with a hearty, “Heck of a job, Mikey.”
This city, America’s No. 1 target, had to fight long and hard for federal terror aid while Congress doled out the money as pork rather than based on threat. That was supposed to change this year because Chertoff was given the power to allocate much of the funding based on where it was needed most. Instead, fresh from monumentally bungling the U.S. response to Hurricane Katrina, he went out of his way to whack New York’s slice of the national pie from $208 million to $124 million. The No. 2 target, Washington, also took a huge hit from Chertoff’s team.
New York thinks 9/11 is cash forever. Terror is an income for countries.
A side note on the “Ford to City …” thing:
In the 1976 election, for whatever reason, NYC ballot results came in later than the rest of the state … later than most of the rest of the nation, as a matter of fact. So, for a few hours, it looked as if NY State was going for Ford, and that would push the whole electoral college to him.
Then the city returns started coming in. It was my favorite election night TV ever.