tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6266139.post113884942767311037..comments2023-06-24T08:43:40.633-05:00Comments on this blog could be your life!: States! Unions! Forever!!jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12291085782348812770noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6266139.post-1139111411901199382006-02-04T21:50:00.000-06:002006-02-04T21:50:00.000-06:00I guess I meant more in the context of homeland se...I guess I meant more in the context of homeland security, such as:<BR/><BR/>1. First responders (police, fire, 911 systems) need about $62 billion additional dollars to create a nationwide infrastructure to handle a non-nuclear attack.<BR/><BR/>2. Hospitals and public health organizations need another $36 billion in order to respond adequately to a non-nuclear or biological/chemical attack.<BR/><BR/>3. Customs agents still don't check more than 2% of the 16 million cargo containers that enter U.S. ports each year. It would cost $20 million just to set up the new system Customs has in mind -- everything from hiring new agents to setting up tamperproof seals for containers and a global tracking system.<BR/><BR/>4. Not to mention that nearly every water reservoir, dam, power plant (including nuclear ones), pipeline, refinery, etc. has no better defenses against terrorist attacks today than they did pre-9/11. And our Immigration control is a mess because we currently don't differentiate between illegal aliens looking for honest work and illegal aliens looking to blow things up. I have no idea what it costs to fix all this, but none of it can be cheap.<BR/><BR/>So yeah, there’s no way “the era of big government is over” alongside massive tax cuts can afford to keep national security actually factually secure. Taxes may suck, but so does massive death.jonnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12291085782348812770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6266139.post-1138976377661157832006-02-03T08:19:00.000-06:002006-02-03T08:19:00.000-06:00I doubt that cutting the trillions we spend on wea...I doubt that cutting the trillions we spend on weapons research and sustaining wars around the world, would "hang our security out to dry."Jeff BBzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11704724892704077645noreply@blogger.com