Re: Top Dem Senator slashed aviation security funding for pet constituency

On 12/31/2009 11:54 AM, Harry Dope wrote:
> Sen. Dodd, D-Conn., slashed aviation security funding for pet
> constituency
> By: Mark Hemingway
> Commentary Staff Writer
> 12/28/09 12:24 PM EST
>
> Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn.
> arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009, for a
> series of votes.
>
> Now that our attention is focused on airline security measures thanks
> to the failed airline attack on Christmas Day, it’s worth mentioning
> that one senator took money away from aviation security to line the
> pockets of a constituency that supported his presidential campaign in
> a big way.
>
> Back in July, Senator Chris Dodd, D-Conn., proposed an amendment
> reducing aviation security appropriations by $4.5 million in favor of
> firefighter grants — a notoriously inneffective program. In fact, the
> money was specifically “for screening operations and the amount for
> explosives detection systems.” The amendment was also sponsored by
> Sen. Lieberman, D-Conn., and Sen. Carper, D-Del., but Dodd deserves to
> be singled out here because the firefighters union is a pet
> constituency of his. In 2007 he campaigned all through Iowa with the
> firefighters union. It was one of the few distinguishable features of
> Dodd’s ill-fated presidential bid.
>
> The text of the amendment is below:
>
> (Purpose: To provide additional funds for FIRE grants under section
> 33 of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974)
>
> On page 77, between lines 16 and 17, insert the following:
>
> SEC. X (a) The amount appropriated under the heading “firefighter
> assistance grants” under the heading “Federal Emergency Management
> Agency” under by title III for necessary expenses for programs
> authorized by the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 is
> increased by $10,000,000 for necessary expenses to carry out the
> programs authorized under section 33 of that Act (15 U.S.C. 2229).
>
> (b) The total amount of appropriations under the heading “Aviation
> Security” under the heading “Transportation Security Administration”
> under title II, the amount for screening operations and the amount for
> explosives detection systems under the first proviso under that
> heading, and the amount for the purchase and installation of
> explosives detection systems under the second proviso under that
> heading are reduced by $4,500,000.
>
> (c) From the unobligated balances of amounts appropriated before
> the date of enactment of this Act for the appropriations account under
> the heading “state and local programs” under the heading “Federal
> Emergency Management Agency” for “Trucking Industry Security
> Grants”, $5,500,000 are rescinded.

stop going to Mardi-gras in New Orleans >>OR<< when ON VACATION I
will drive around Nebraska

If *Nebraska and Louisiana and Connecticut* are going to take us to the
Cleaners in the Senate for hundreds of millions of dollars , under
forced tax and spend laws. What is to stop the other people from other
States from simply NOT spending by "free choice" their own money in
other States. Such as those with bribed Senators….

Suppose we all stop going to Mardi-gras in New Orleans, it just got
marked off my list of future vacations and I'll do an extra bit of work
to avoid doing business or have any business dealings with Louisiana.
I'll buy no more insurance or financial products from Connecticut.

The Same goes for Nebraska, when ON VACATION I will drive around
Nebraska, I'll plan my trips to visit their neighbors. I will buy as
little as I can that's made there and I will no longer do business with
Nebraska based businesses. Check your internet purchases and don't buy
from these three States. Help the Senators become the pariah of their
States for their lack of ethics.

We'll see if Maybe Louisiana and Nebraska will lose what they gained
by selling out the people in other States.

I know they've lost my vacation dollars instantly(the loss has begun)
when they vote for this Health care bill. Good luck to their residents
who will pay the price for their Senators greed and bribery.

I will with my every dollar spent….

*VOTE_AGAINST_THE_STATES_THAT_HAVE_TRIED_TO_STEAL_FROM_ME*

I hope the honest people move out of State or recall their Senators and
put them on trial for bribery and theft, because I see this as a
movement adopted by *TEA PARTY PEOPLE* to make their voice heard by the
States that are against freedom and constitutional authority.

GET READY FOR A HUGE STINK RAISED BY TEA PARTY MEMBERS.

And I see it happening starting this year…… New Orleans might as
well find a new industry and forget tourism, they just lost 50% of their
customers.

We need to make *Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson and Chris Dodd* famous for
their decision to destroy their State's economy by bringing a National
black eye(Bribery) onto them and the resulting economic collapse due to
the other States full of honest people who believe in the Constitution
refusing to do business or visit those States.

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*BE VERY CONCERNED*

*Equal Justice* is being pushed aside to make room for *Social Justice*
-Poetic Justice-