I'm Sorry, What?!?
Jun. 2nd, 2006 08:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saoneNew York has no national monuments or icons, according to the Department of Homeland Security form obtained by ABC News. That was a key factor used to determine that New York City should have its anti-terror funds slashed by 40 percent--from $207.5 million in 2005 to $124.4 million in 2006.
"All I can tell you is if you look at their worksheets, and it says that New York City doesn't have any high visibility national icons ... I mean, I don't have to list the Brooklyn Bridge, the United Nations, Rockefeller Center, the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building and the Stock Exchange," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in response to ABC News' questions.
The form ignored that New York City is the capital of the world financial markets and merely stated the city had four significant bank assets.
Okay, this is just... Do people at the DHS acutally look at what they put out? Can they read? Do they have brains in their tiny, little heads?
And, if things like the Statue of Liberty, and the Empire State Building don't count as national icons, then what the hell does, Bob Jones University?!
"All I can tell you is if you look at their worksheets, and it says that New York City doesn't have any high visibility national icons ... I mean, I don't have to list the Brooklyn Bridge, the United Nations, Rockefeller Center, the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building and the Stock Exchange," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in response to ABC News' questions.
The form ignored that New York City is the capital of the world financial markets and merely stated the city had four significant bank assets.
Okay, this is just... Do people at the DHS acutally look at what they put out? Can they read? Do they have brains in their tiny, little heads?
And, if things like the Statue of Liberty, and the Empire State Building don't count as national icons, then what the hell does, Bob Jones University?!
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Date: 2006-06-02 04:19 pm (UTC)Say New York to anyone in this country and I'll bet they'd say "Statue of Liberty" before anything else!!!
Unbelievable . . .
(Love your Captain A icon!!!)
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Date: 2006-06-04 03:25 am (UTC)No, evidently that's in New Jersey now. O.o Trying to make sense of anything this administration does is pretty much guaranteed to give you a headache and raise your blood pressure. *fumes*