News Alert: New Report Highlights Yet Another Bush Failure to Protect Homeland

If we hadn't spent gazillions on the illegal and failed war in Iraq, Homeland Security could be better funded.

No telling how much the Bushites are spending spying on Americans!

We are living in a failed state, under a foolsih king, who only knows how to do three things: send in the military, no matter the problem (or lack of one), give no-bid contracts to his and Cheney's buddies and lie his arse off about everything.

News Alert: New Report Highlights Yet Another Bush Failure to Protect Homeland:

"On Tuesday, Rep. Benny Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released a report examining the Bush Administration's failure to improve America's rail and mass transit security program.

The report comes just days after news reports that Al Qaeda planned to attack New York City's subway system with poison gas.

Bush's inaction has left vulnerable some 11.3 million Americans who use some form of rail and mass transit every day. The 9-11 Commission found that we are just as susceptible to attacks on the ground as in the air, if not more so. Nevertheless, the federal government has spent only one penny per transit trip improving security in the past four years, compared to $9 per airline passenger.

'Rail and mass transit security absolutely is not a priority for this Administration,' said Rep. Thompson. 'Americans deserve more than this type of wait and see approach to homeland security.'

The report makes several recommendations, including the development of a comprehensive security strategy, clarification of the roles and responsibilities of relevant government agencies, and improving funding."