Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Obama admin cut domestic bomb prevention budget by nearly half!

In an effort by the lib media to assure us that Big Government is the only thing that can protect us, especially when it comes to terrorism, we learn that the Obama administration SLASHED the budget for domestic bombing prevention by 45%, according to the former Homeland Security Asst. Secretary. It's gonna be hard to blame this one on the sequester...but I'm certain he will...
DailyMail: Barack Obama's administration has cut the budget nearly in half for preventing domestic bombings, MailOnline can reveal.

Under President George W. Bush, the Department of Homeland Security had $20 million allocated for preventing the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) by terrorists working inside the United States. The current White House has cut that funding down to $11 million.

That assessment comes from Robert Liscouski, a former Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection, in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15 that killed three Americans and injured at least 173 others.

He told MailOnline that the Obama-era DHS is, on the whole, about as well-positioned as it was during the Bush administration to handle the aftermath of the April 15 bombings in Boston, 'but the Obama administration has continued to cut the budget for offices such as the Office for Bombing Prevention from $20 million started under Bush, to $11 million today.'
No worries, though. If the press says he's doing a bang-up job, then it must be so. They certainly don't want you to realize this guy's not the picturesque super hero they paint him to be.

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