A letter writer to the New York Times gets it completely wrong on why Wyoming is making out like a bandit in block grant money.

To the Editor:
Re "Our Faith-Based Train Rides," in which Sarah Vowell questions the large allocation of counterterrorism resources to Wyoming in comparison with New York City:
Let me remind her that Britain need not make a similar misallocation to Cornwall over London, because there is no vice president of the United Kingdom who comes from Cornwall.
Lois BerkowitzOro Valley, Ariz., July 9, 2005

It is simply the power of small states in the infernal Senate which produces $37 per person for Wyoming. George W. Bush is from the second largest (second most ripped off) state, yet the Senate still passed this atrocious bill. California, Texas, New York, and Florida may be more than a third of the nation's population, but they comprise only 8 percent of the Senate.

Tony Blair happens to represent a rural constituency, but you don't see Britain wasting its money protecting moors because in Britain the votes of farmers and city dwellers count equally.
- posted by jsbennett70 @ 1:45 PM