the tsa, longer lines there. it means that we can t continue to invest and build. megyn: but the folks who watch government waste were quick to point out that dhs had grant money going to programs for many items you might think are less important than our security that perhaps they could cut first. like battle field ready, mini tank vehicles called bearcats. in particular, one town in new hampshire is using one of them to protect its pumpkin festival. and that s important. plus, dhs spent 90,000, on a security upgrade for a spring training area in arizona. crucial line item week long conference at paradise point resort and spa in san diego for zombie apocalypse training. we re not kidding. and tom schatz is president of citizens against government waste and you ve been railing about the waste we have in
pay every day expenses, which is not the purpose of the grants. and number four is to show the incompetency of the department of homeland security when it comes to actually making sure the money they are sending out there is spent on something that actually does the purpose for what the bill was passed for in the first place. martha: hallow says that the zombie demonstration that we showed was not paid for by taxpayer dollars in their assessment of it. this was in san diego. the police officers and rescue workers were allowed to use homeland security grant money to cover the cost of a five-day counterterrorism conference that was held at the paradise point resort and spa, thousand dollars conference fee and it included the zombie apocalypse event where they dressed 40 actors to dress as undeed. what is your reaction when they
conferences at these really beautiful, exotic places. how many hawaiian conferences, you know? i worked on the hill, i don t remember ever going to conferences. i used to go into the lame cafeteria downstairs. we were very poor. we had no money. megyn: i work in the private sector, right? i work for a private employer, and do you know how many conferences i have been to for fox news? zero. but you get to places like iowa megyn: yeah, really. [laughter] why are these necessary? i agree. megyn: why do you have to have these? there s actually an urban training center in indiana. i m from indiana, know all about this. it s a thousand-acre facility, and they didn t use it because, i m guessing, indiana isn t as fun. so they wanted to go to the paradise cove megyn: but is it so bad to try to inspire the folks who are trying to train in counterterrorism to actually show up, first of all, it s better to have it instead of maybe at the ranch at paradise point resort and spa and then
people for it. having said that, i don t know that i want my homeland security dollars, i d rather they be spent on homeland type stuff like killing terrorists. megyn: although they re claiming, again, the taxpayer dollars did not go fund the actual zombie presentation, just the can conference around which it was built. didi, but it raises the point of who s minding the store? who either than coburn is keeping track of where our money is going? they re almost as scary and wasteful as that gsa guy in the hot tub with the wine. [laughter] here it was a thousand dollars, what it was was the government paid-for entry fee. and, remember, this was two shows on an island megyn: the paradise point resort and spa. clearly, they were having fun. but we paid for it. general government