Senate Refuses Funding for Rail Security
The U.S. Senate voted to NOT to provide additional funding for rail security by a vote of 50-50. According to ABC News:
As security at airports has been intensified terrorists have been concentrating on railroads for their bombs. We currently spend $9/passenger on air security compared to one cent/passenger for rail. The Center for American Progress has a very good analysis of our Homeland Security failures in this report.
President Bush may believe it's impossible to completely defend America from terrroism but let's at least try. Let's do everything we can and make it as difficult as possible. Who knows, perhaps the terrorists will decide it's too difficult to hit us again. Let's try. Who is going to tell the surviving family members that Republicans in the White House ran a cost/benefit analysis and decided their loved ones weren't worth the expense?
Every serious intelligence report on terror has identified mass transit and rail systems as now the prime target for al Qaeda and others. Bombings in Madrid, London and now Mumbai have only confirmed those fears.
As security at airports has been intensified terrorists have been concentrating on railroads for their bombs. We currently spend $9/passenger on air security compared to one cent/passenger for rail. The Center for American Progress has a very good analysis of our Homeland Security failures in this report.
President Bush may believe it's impossible to completely defend America from terrroism but let's at least try. Let's do everything we can and make it as difficult as possible. Who knows, perhaps the terrorists will decide it's too difficult to hit us again. Let's try. Who is going to tell the surviving family members that Republicans in the White House ran a cost/benefit analysis and decided their loved ones weren't worth the expense?
posted by PA progressive @ Friday, July 14, 2006
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