Barack Obama wants to change the government's formula for giving states money for homeland security. Barack's opinion is that the allocation of funding should be based on the degree of "terrorism risk" in each state. "Risk" would be determined by the Department of Homeland Security.
This strikes me as a reasonable guiding principle. Sen. Obama wants to give states with higher terrorist threat more federal homeland security budget. But it won't be easy to convince Senators from smaller states to go along with the plan. Politics, politics, politics.
Of course it helps Obama that his home state would get a big win-fall if his proposal goes through. Oh, and many of the early voting states that Barack hopes to win in the primary elections would also get a boost. Iowa would get an additional $119,000; Nevada would get $86,000 more; and South Carolina would receive $175,000 more funding.
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