Friday, June 09, 2006

Our porous ports and our concerned Senators

Remember a few months back when the Senate was worried that a foreign government was taking over our ports? The Senators acknowledged that security at our ports was weak; only 5% of the containers coming into the country are inspected. Apparently, our port security has magically improved since then as the Senate in its wisdom decided not to pass a bill which would have authorized us to appropriate $648,000,000 to improve our security. Times are tough, after all.

On the same day the Senate decided that we couldn't afford $648,000,000 for our security, a large number - fortunately not a majority - decided that we could afford to pass up $355 billion (over ten years) by eliminating the estate tax.

Make sense to you?

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