How to justify the current honeland security spending

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How to justify the current honeland security spending

Post by Pigeon » Tue Sep 13, 2011 3:00 am

Putting this all together, we find that, in order for the $75 billion in enhanced expenditures on homeland security to be deemed cost-effective under our approach—which substantially biases the consideration toward finding them effective—they would have to deter, prevent, foil, or protect each year against 1,667 otherwise successful attacks of something like the one attempted in Times Square in 2010. In other words, we'd have to foil more than four major attacks every day to justify the spending.

http://www.slate.com/id/2303169


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Re: How to justify the current honeland security spending

Post by lkwalker » Tue Sep 13, 2011 1:22 pm

I just can't get over the cloying little feeling that "Homeland Security" sounds a little Third Reichy to me. Know what I mean?
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Re: How to justify the current honeland security spending

Post by Pigeon » Tue Sep 13, 2011 1:26 pm

Yes, I have that splinter in the back of my minds also.

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Re: How to justify the current honeland security spending

Post by lkwalker » Tue Sep 13, 2011 1:29 pm

Another little ditty wafts through my mind from time time... 'In the final times the living will envy the dead.'. I'm not sure if that was St John or Arthur Afterburn who said it but I do know they used to drink a lot of whiskey together.
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Re: How to justify the current honeland security spending

Post by Pigeon » Tue Sep 13, 2011 1:30 pm

That must be one of misery's famous quotes. Working in any century.

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Re: How to justify the current honeland security spending

Post by Egg » Tue Sep 13, 2011 1:35 pm

lkwalker wrote:I just can't get over the cloying little feeling that "Homeland Security" sounds a little Third Reichy to me. Know what I mean?
Well, when "they" do "it" it's no good, when we do "it" it's understandable.


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Re: How to justify the current honeland security spending

Post by lkwalker » Tue Sep 13, 2011 1:37 pm

Hey. If I wanted any shit outa you this morning I woulda squeezed your head.
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Re: How to justify the current honeland security spending

Post by Egg » Tue Sep 13, 2011 1:42 pm

lkwalker wrote:Hey. If I wanted any shit outa you this morning I woulda squeezed your head.
Is that why the whole office has been grabbing my head?


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