"The number of people worldwide who are killed by Muslim-type terrorists, Al Qaeda wannabes, is maybe a few hundred outside of war zones. It's basically the same number of people who die drowning in the bathtub each year," said John Mueller, an Ohio State University professor who has written extensively about the balance between threat and expenditures in fighting terrorism.
Oh, actually? Quite a bit!!!
The spending has been rife with dubious expenditures, including the $557,400 in rescue and communications gear that went to the 1,500 residents of North Pole, Alaska, and a $750,000 anti-terrorism fence — fashioned with 8-foot-high ram-proof wrought iron reinforced with concrete footers — built around a Veterans Affairs hospital in the pastoral hills outside Asheville, N.C.
Yes, it's GWBush, colluding with the "security at ANY cost" faux-Conservative Pubbies, prompted and entertained handsomely by the earmark-oriented Lobbyists of Questionable Technology (a/k/a 'vaporware') and the good old-fashioned Urge To Make Gummint Even Bigger.
Well, now we have it. Feel safe? How about a huggy-lovey crotch-grab?
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One of OBL's stated goals was to bankrupt this nation. He was smart enough to know how to get the ball rolling.
We need to elect smarter leaders. Smarter than the last two leaders of the (once) free world.
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