Dave you have some very valid points, but have you ever dug into what homeland security realy is under the flash and promtional speaches to make us feel good?
It is like a farmewr I know, is a great guy that will do anything for you type. He puts three log chains around most of his cattle gates. Yet wires them together with a small wire as a splice link.
Another example is your house door being locked. Any professional fire department spends 20 seconds at a door, if they are not through it in twenty seconds they find a different way in. If your house door has glass in it you punch your fist through and turn the handle. Any windows in your house? I learned I could break them at a very young age.
Homeland is even more stupid than that, but most of us feel good at night knowing we have it.
Our fire department took advantage of the free money, and got alot of it by our terms of lots. But there are so many strings attatched that is mandated afterwards, it takes up alot of that money jumping through the hoops they demand. We feel that perhaps if we had it to do again we would decline trying to get the free funding.
When they first started to give out grants, no department could fill out the application forms. It cost us $400.00 to have a profesional person who was certified to do it fill them out. Just like the lottery, they do not refund your money if you loose. We were (I think) eight times more likley to have three firemen killed by lightning than to recieve the money. The second or third round it did get better, and we did win.
A salesman that is a good friend said in one town in NE IA he sold two sets of turn out gear to a single fire department for each man. They have a rural department and a city department, use the same trucks out of the same building for both, as well as firemen. I don't recall the exact numbers, but rough figures are $1,200 per man. On that department I would guess those dollars are more than the total budget for two years would be.
It is simply another burocrocy to make some folks rich, and to create more government jobs that require more taxes.
The general thought is a great idea, but then the lobby beasts get in on the deal, and all common sence is plowed under.
If we require our government to cut spending by any percent, they will first give managment a raise, and then take away our police protection, EMS, fire, garbage etc.
We all know our political friends on both sides of the tractor shed are helping only certian tractor sponcers out.
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