Disconnected Rumblings

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Not Enough

So I saw this in the news tonight.

Senate defeats more mass transit security funds
"The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved $31 billion for airport, border and other domestic security next year after defeating efforts to significantly increase protection for American mass transit systems in the wake of last week's London bombings.
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While 53 of the Senate's 100 members backed the move to spend an additional $1.2 billion next year to shore up security for the nation's subways and buses, supporters needed 60 votes to prevail because the additional money would have exceeded the Senate's self-imposed spending caps."
Well what to say? The bureaucracy has struck again. It seems to me that mass transit is a major target. I would doubt that our next attack would be with airplanes again (knock on wood). Seems to me it would much more likely be mass transit. They seem to go for our weak spots, and I think at this point mass transit is much more of a weak spot than the airline industry.

Here's hoping we find a way to address these weaknesses. Among many others we have, such as nuclear plants, chemical plants, ports, etc.
posted by digitaljay @ 9:41 PM MST

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