National Insanity

The Rebublicans have done it again. They say they are for national defences, but what they do is enrich their friends and donars. That is why they just blocked a bill to add $ 1.25 billing to help with port security. The same port security the president wanted to turn over to UAE controlled company.

The bill would have provided the following, seemingly necessary, things:

"– $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."
(http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/16/port-security-funding/)

Instead of this, they passed a $1.7 Billion bill for missle defense, that doesn't work, but will line the pockets of the administration friendly military industrial complex.

It's just insane!