Taxpayers Footing Oil Safety Bill

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CBS Evening News:

"(CBS) It's no secret that when it comes to the mounting cost of security for all high-risk terrorist targets, like nuclear power plants and railroads, there simply isn't enough Homeland Security money to go around"

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/25/eveningnews/main619558.shtml

"But, as CBS News Correspondent Mika Brzezinski reports, precious taxpayer dollars are quietly going to pay for security at some of the richest corporations in the world. Major oil companies have received $65 million to buy cameras, fencing, and communications equipment.

"That makes no sense to me at all," says Bill Millar, President of the American Public Transportation Association.

Millar asks why these profitable private companies are receiving scarce taxpayer dollars while publicly funded entities like the transit system, with Americans riding 32 million times a day, left under-funded and under-protected"


I can't believe that BS. I was struggling all year to make payments on last years income tax and to come up with the money that I owed the IRS this year. I am so mad I could explode.
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