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...department's $40 billion budget is dispersed in equal share to the 50 states and the rest goes to states more or less on the basis of population. As a result, the federal government spends $28.22 annually on a resident of Wyoming and $15.72 on a citizen of New York. Instead, Chertoff wants to employ risk analysis-like the kind used in a DHS draft report inadvertantly placed on a Hawaii state government web site last week-to determine how to deploy money according to the potential death toll and economic impact of various attacks on likely targets. If resources...
...issuing alerts, Chertoff says he doesn't want "to get up in front of the public and say the sky is falling if it's not." At the same time, he appreciates the value of a vigilant public. There have been recent cases, he says, in which a citizen "noticed something about the way people were purchasing or how they were behaving" and reported it to authorities. When those details were linked to another piece of intelligence "that gave us the opportunity to prevent another attack...
...collective butts by framing the debate with manipulative language. They invented the “Death Tax” to replace the Estate Tax (picture: grim reaper as tax collector), the “personal investment account” to replace privatized Social Security (picture the empowered investor-citizen, chest out, cape flapping in the wind) and the horribly racist stereotype of the “welfare queen” to destroy governmental social programs (picture single mother proudly collecting her check and watching...
...Senate with new fervor. Derided as an absentee Senator by Bush and other critics in 2004, Kerry seems almost everywhere on Capitol Hill these days, introducing bills to expand health care to all children, enlarge the military by 40,000 troops and rewrite election laws to allow any citizen to register to vote on Election Day. "I'm in a position to be more effective on these issues," he says. But some of his powerful colleagues disagree. In a meeting with labor leaders, Kerry questioned whether Democrats had a coherent message opposing Bush's Social Security plan, annoying Senate Democratic...
...student should be a second-class citizen, but the University’s future plans may be ensuring just that. The QRAC will be out of commission starting April 1, and next semester, Quadlings will return to new, smaller Hilles demi-library, with stacks now occupied by offices and other student space. Both construction initiatives are responding to legitimate and overriding student demands—the need for more student group and dance space is acute—yet together they spell a vast reduction in student services available to Quad residents...