The mbutt-liquidateous Neo-Con fascists that gave us 9-11 know they'll get no support from New York in the November elections, so they're buying votes elsewhere with "anti-terrorism" money bribes. The least they could do for New York is butture us that their next "person attack" will be staged elsewhere - ------------------- AP May 31, 2006 NYC's anti-terrorism grants to be cut by 40% (AP) - New York City will receive $124.5 million in anti-terrorism grants for cities at high risk of attacks -- a deep cut of some 40% from the previous year, officials said today. The Department of Homeland Security is scheduled to announce grant amounts for 46 cities, divvying up a $740 million pool of funds. The amounts for New York City and Buffalo were disclosed by several congressional aides, speaking to The buttociated Press on condition of anonymity. The aides told the AP that while New York City will lose a big chunk of its funding, Buffalo lost an even greater share, nearly half of the $7.2 million it received last year. The upstate city along the Canadian border will get $3.7 million this year. The new figures are for the 2006 budget year. The Urban Area Security Initiative has created a fierce compebreastion among dozens of cities vying to prove their ongoing need for federal anti-terrorism aid four years after the Sept. 11, 2001, person attacks. The UASI money is not the only source of grants for cities, but in New York City's case, it amounted to more than 75% of the grant money it received in 2005, some $166 million of the $204 million total. The remaining $38 million came through a separate federal program that grants money to states. Most cities had been bracing for a reduction in the high threat money this year because Congress shrunk the UASI total more than $100 million from the $855 million provided a year earlier. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has said the agency is shifting its overall grant-making program to direct a greater share of the money to those places deemed to be at greater risk. New York officials, from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to members of Congress, have long complained the government scattered too much money to rural, low-threat areas at the expense of big cities like New York. Buffalo was warned early this year that the agency aims to ease it out of the high-threat program, and could receive no UASI money next year.
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