US lawmakers cut Homeland Security funding.

[Ponce]

How STUPID do they think that we are, if anything FEMA is the one that will get a budget cut but Homeland will continue to get their regular God's given rights......I for one don't think that those two should be part of the same team.
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US lawmakers cut Homeland Security funding.

(AFP) – 13 hours ago

WASHINGTON — The US House of Representatives has voted to shave more than a billion dollars from next year's Department of Homeland Security budget as part of its deficit reduction plan.

The Republican-held House voted 231 to 188 to cut the fiscal 2012 budget by $1.1 billion to $40.6 billion for the agency charged with fighting terror and guarding US borders.

The budget, whose fiscal year begins on October 1, is $3 billion, or seven percent less than President Barack Obama's request

"Providing for critical national security measures is a funding priority, and I'm pleased we've done so expediently while still cutting spending to more sustainable levels," said Kentucky Republican Hal Rogers, who chairs the committee that oversees the agency's budget.

Democrats, however, denounced the cuts, calling them counter-productive.

"This bill is simply an assault against the progress we've made protecting the homeland over the past ten years," said Bennie Thompson, the highest-ranking Democrat on the panel.

Thompson also criticized the bill for eliminating bargaining rights for Transportation Security Administration employees.

"Furthering the Republican anti-worker political agenda, this bill prevents TSA screeners from collective bargaining rights and calls for the elimination of up to 8,000 critical jobs," he added.

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[solid]

This sounds like good news, except that they will cut the budget...then we will have some engineered disaster in the near future. They will cry a "lack of funding", scare tactic, then we'll have a new budget 5 times as large to prevent further engineered disasters.

Good idea. We've never seen this before. :oo-->

[jimswift]

the agency charged with fighting terror and guarding US borders.


please, they have failed on all accounts.

Most of us know who the real terrorist are and the borders flow like a river with illegals.

[mightymanx]

How about we cut the entire American KGB budget?

In the pre-American KGB days the Bill of Rights was not nearly as far down the shitter as today, how did we survive without them?


With all the terrorists they have caught in the last 10 years I sure feel safer. :puke

If we got rid of them Book could save their jobs by putting them to work in his HOA.

[gunDriller]

the agency charged with fighting terror and guarding US borders.


please, they have failed on all accounts.

Most of us know who the real terrorist are and the borders flow like a river with illegals.


it's more like a flood, the river has overflowed its banks.

but, a lot of the jobs that Mexican immigrants do, most Americans would not do - for those wages.

if the borders were patrolled more effectively, farmworker wages would probably go up, and there would be an economic push towards localized farming, and food would be more expensive.

[osoab]

Seems 40.6 billion light in the cut area. :oo-->

[Horn]

but, a lot of the jobs that Mexican immigrants do, most Americans would not do - for those wages.


Due to Unemployment Insurance extensions no doubt...