Think our Givernment wastes our tax dollars? Naw, couldn’t
be: One of the principal recommendations following the Sept. 11 attacks was
that emergency and rescue personnel have one secure radio frequency on which
all agencies that were merged into the Department of Homeland Security could
communicate. In November, the department's inspector general revealed that,
despite $430 million allotted to build and operate the frequency in the last
nine years, it remains almost useless to DHS' 123,000 employees. The report
surveyed 479 workers, but found only one who knew how to find the frequency,
and 72 percent did not even know one existed (and half the department's radios
couldn't have accessed it even if employees knew where to look).
And also, Remember Alaska's "Bridge to
Nowhere"?: The Anchorage Daily News reported the Army Corps
of Engineers is building a harbor on the Aleutian native community's island of
Akutan, even though there is no road away from it. The only way to get into or out of the harbor is by boat. Any connector road to
the only town on the island is "likely years in the future,"
according to the Daily News. As well, there is no assurance that the largest
business in the area, Trident Seafoods, would ever use the harbor.
There, I think I got the leak fixed, for now…..
Live Long and Prosper….
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