Since 9/11 ANYTHING that smacks of defense against terrorism - no matter how bizarre - is on the table for funding (Including a couple wars, not necessarily related to terrorism, but deemed necessary by politicians who need to justify their existence, and do so by 'nation building').
But look at the MILLIONS of dollars spent on equipment that now sits in warehouses and does nothing to protect America and Americans, but pads the pockets of big defense and homeland security contractors. Ka-ching!!! But then again, what DO we DO in modern America that ISN'T a license for defense and homeland security contractors to steal??? Ka-ching!! Ka-ching!!!
Is there the SLIGHTEST possibility that money would have been better spent educating kids to not be so xenophobic, or to speak foreign languages, or even just to acquire a more considerate, broader world view? Someday the history books will read that the decline and fall of the American Republic was due to our own stupidity. Consider the airport puffer, and $10M wasted and tell me we're not reflexively stupid... Go ahead... Please tell me...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/20/AR2010122005599.html?wprss=rss_metro
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