{"id":436,"date":"2007-08-21T12:09:15","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T18:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=436"},"modified":"2007-08-21T12:10:20","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T18:10:20","slug":"porks-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"Porks Away!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DHS budget has more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/ViewNation.asp?Page=\/Nation\/archive\/200708\/NAT20070821a.html\">pork<\/a> than a honeymoon suite.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2006, Florida received more homeland security grants than any other state, $79.6 billion, followed by Texas with $34.5 billion, and Louisiana with a total of $20.1 billion, according to OMB Watch. New York &#8212; arguably the most at-risk state &#8212; ranked ninth at $4.5 billion. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would argue that the entire DHS budget is just a massive pork barrel. The way to solve this abuse is to kill the DHS grant programs &#8212; every single one. The federal government is not responsible for making Texas safe from terrorism &#8212; the residents of Texas are. DHS should focus on broader security issues, intelligence and disaster response. So that the next time we have a disaster, they don&#8217;t go all Katrina on us . . . again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DHS budget has more pork than a honeymoon suite. In 2006, Florida received more homeland security grants than any other state, $79.6 billion, followed by Texas with $34.5 billion, and Louisiana with a total of $20.1 billion, according to OMB Watch. New York &#8212; arguably the most at-risk state &#8212; ranked ninth at $4.5 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=436\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Porks Away!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-tax-and-spend"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-72","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}