Abandoned homefront (MA Dems will appreciate this)

Abandoned homefront
By Brian McGrory, Globe Columnist | April 11, 2007

Nearly a week later, and I still can't get the paltriness of the figure out of my head. Kids are dying on the streets of Dorchester, elders are held hostage in their homes by fear, out-of-town visitors are shot in the head, MBTA passengers are ducking gunfire. And Deval Patrick offers an extra $900,000 to improve public safety in the city of Boston.
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Don't retiring officials over at Massport get something like that in unused sick pay? Wasn't that the cost of a day's overrun on the Big Dig?

I took a walk through Roxbury and Dorchester the other night with Mayor Thomas M. Menino, trying to get him to share my outrage, which he wouldn't do. For him, it's about the reality of too little money at a time of too many problems. For me, it's a matter of priorities, and I couldn't help but wonder, where have ours gone?

And then it occurred to me: Abroad. The United States has spent $415 billion and counting on a war in Iraq that had no clear reason to start and has no discernible way to end. Now the president is throwing one of his famous fits because the Congress hasn't rubberstamped his demand for another $100 billion in war spending.

And for what purpose is our involvement being drawn out? To bring order to Iraq and safety to the people who live there. But when exactly did Baghdad become more important than Boston?

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