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Originally Posted by absence_of_color
I think the terror is very real and the u.s. government has definately got their hands full keeping horrible disasters like 9-11 happening on a daily basis. Its a scary thought, but we americans are out of touch, pampered to a point, and largely rely and expect homeland security to keep all the danger at bay. For the most part, they have done an excelllent job.
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Yes, but how do we know? It's all been super-dooper classified. The only people that do know won't way anything. Yes, they could be doing an excellent job. Yes, they could be doing a horrible job. We simply don't know. We don't know how many terrorist attacks are atempted. We don't know how many, if any, have been prevented. We're in the dark.
Also, the only reason we are out of touch is the amazing secrecy that the government insists on. The problem with that is that we vote for officials that we have no idea what they're doing. Rather odd, consdering that we live under a representative republic.
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Originally Posted by absence_of_color
And mentioning that, I have to add that it really peeves me that people go and complain that the money spent on homeland security could have been used better elsewhere simply because nothing has happenned to produce proof of the necessity of these funds.
In this case, absolutely nothing is the proof.
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Actually, most people on the liberal side of this are worried about how we can afford do pay $400 billion in Iraq when our country is already deep in debt. We all want to be safe at home, conservative and liberal alike. Not wanting to speak for everyone, I certianally understand the need for some spending on defence. "Absolutely nothing" isn't really proof, though.