Scraps R Us

BushCo budget cutting. According to CNN "Bush would slice a $600 million grant program for local police agencies to $60 million next year. Grants to local firefighters, for which Congress provided $715 million this year, would fall to $500 million." According to this headline "Bush budget scraps 9,790 border patrol agents". Bush and the congress hogs and sows, however, are spending big appropriations on IT. Chenega and subsidiaries awarded 1/2 billion over the last few years, thank you Ted Stevens. IT, information technology, you know all that stuff they need to train some of us to track the rest of us.