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...Percentage of the $16 billion in post-9/11 security grants to states and the District of Columbia that hasn't been spent. Almost $5 billion remains stalled in federal coffers...
Kouchner has spent his career making noise. That has alienated him from his longtime Socialist Party colleagues--they're furious both that he supported Saddam Hussein's overthrow and that he joined the Cabinet of their archfoe, new President Nicolas Sarkozy. In May they threw Kouchner out of the party...
...1billion Amount of money spent shoring up New Orleans' defenses since Hurricane Katrina...
...citizens beyond opening their wallets. Why not offer the option of joining the Peace Corps or develop "draft" programs with agencies like the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? A true national-service tour of duty should be two years spent bettering the lives of others...
...Territory government, begins there, banning it in about 60 communities for an initial period of six months. Even more radical is the government's welfare revolution: the docking of welfare checks if children miss too much school, and the quarantining of some government payments to ensure they're spent on food rather than drugs and alcohol. The government also plans to take over township leases so that homes and infrastructure can be repaired; it will ban hard-core pornography and carry out health checks on all children. The rigid permit system that restricts the entry of outsiders such as journalists...