Depleted National Guard. Homeland Secure?

Question

Los Angeles Times | February 25, 2007 at 06:12 PM

Eighty-eight percent of stateside Army National Guard units are "very poorly equipped," with less than half of what they need to respond to a domestic crisis, Lt. Gen. H. Steven Blum testified a few weeks ago to the independent Commission on the National Guard and Reserves.

Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau, coordinates between the states and the Pentagon.

He said 45% of Air National Guard units lacked the necessary equipment to deploy.

Answer 1

the U.S. military budget is roughly the same as all the other countries in the world combined. Where does all this money go?

Answer 2

Hel* no we're not secure. We can't stem the tide of 50 thousand pis* smelling drug smugglers pouring across the southern boarder every month as it is.