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Obama administration,Congress quietly let school security funds lapse
Washington Guardian, by John Solomon and Kimberly Dvorak
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Posted By:snapper451, 12/16/2012 8:13:03 AM
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Beneath the expressions of grief, sorrow and disbelief over the Connecticut school massacre lies an uneasy truth in Washington: over the last few years the Obama administration and Congress quietly let federal funding for several key school security programs lapse in the name of budget savings.Government officials told the Washington Guardian on Friday night that two Justice Department programs that had provided more than $200 million to schools for training, Staff has split headline and added text to prevent closure.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Ragenrylie, 12/16/2012 8:35:16 AM (No. 9068757)
I´m sure the $200 million in training included NO weapons training for teachers and conceal carry for them. Probably just taught them how to be nice quiet victims
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
fireman28, 12/16/2012 8:41:02 AM (No. 9068768)
Another gimme-a-break story.
It must be the Republican´s fault.
The school allegedly had an upgraded entry system. $200M would not have helped.
Its the Obamaphone lady´s fault.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rat Patrol, 12/16/2012 8:48:29 AM (No. 9068786)
9 months after Obama became President he started a program of selling guns to Mexican drug cartels, Obama should have also attended the funerals of the thousands of people killed from the weapons he sold to Mexican drug cartels, and he should have apologized to all the victims family´s then Obama should have had himself arrested, but Obama is a Chicago crook and all he cares about is photo-ops.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
caddyjak, 12/16/2012 9:03:12 AM (No. 9068815)
Oh sure, all you rotten Repubs probably expect the Obamas to give up their 200 Million dollar Hawaii vacation just to protect our children. What nerve///////
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
tren9, 12/16/2012 9:13:25 AM (No. 9068842)
$200 M isn´t that much. It only allows $1 M for training and $199 M for the cronies. That´s actually not enough...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
TheMotherCO, 12/16/2012 9:51:34 AM (No. 9068920)
This is not the feds business, it should be up to local authorities. There seems to be a lot of murdering nutcases running around and they are the ones that should be in jail and never see the light again.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 12/16/2012 10:38:25 AM (No. 9069039)
Schools are a State and Local issue not a Federal issue. Some of the federal programs were earmarks, so they couldn´t even stand on their own as a federal bill. This is so low a federal priority that even President Obama decided to let the spending lapse.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mitzi, 12/16/2012 10:51:27 AM (No. 9069060)
Didn´t the Obama family spend at least that much on vacations and state dinners?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Gale, 12/16/2012 10:51:33 AM (No. 9069061)
Local School Boards are responsible for security of local schools. Of course, I state the obvious for the governmentally challenged.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Republic Can, 12/16/2012 12:30:51 PM (No. 9069251)
They may have let security in the school buildings lapse, but SSRIs, pumped into the children to keep them manageable, are enjoying a field day.
Was he medicated?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
grounded, 12/16/2012 3:42:59 PM (No. 9069477)
There shouldn´t be one cent of federal money going to local education. It just allows the feds to use funding as a cudgel to compel the states to do the feds´ bidding. I attended public school in the 50s & 60s when federal meddling was in its infancy. Then it was just some subsidies for school lunches and "impact fees" paid to local school districts with a heavy influx of military conneted students. Without the fed pursestrings, schools wouldn´t be saddled with abominations like No Child Left Behind and Headstart.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bob913, 12/16/2012 4:17:22 PM (No. 9069533)
#9 They have spent at least $1.4 Billion! on their travels!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 12/17/2012 5:23:01 AM (No. 9070206)
Barry lets the funds lapse, then sits back and waits for another rampage, then goes on tv and bemoans about gun control. See how he works?
As for schools, if those teachers gave up their 5% pay raises every year, they could easily afford their own security.
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