Not Funny

It seems obvious that the billions of dollars spent on Homeland Security have been pissed away on prevention programs - sorry; "security" - and not on emergency response. Secretary Michael Chertoff said Saturday that the government couldn't have predicted a disaster such as the one that has struck New Orleans. Except it did predict it; years ago, months ago, a week ago. But nevermind, I sleep comfortably knowing that my hard-earned dollars are going toward programs designed to keep Arabs out of our airports and Mexicans south of our borders. You all surely realize by now, the government f*cked this up, big time. And people died for it. This is a major city, given advance warning and having been 90 percent evacuated prior to the disaster. Can you imagine if there HADN'T been warning? Need I say it? "A terrorist wouldn't give us days to evacuate, Mr. President..."