Editorial: Paranoia of terrorism causes U.S. to spend needless billions

Posted on September 26, 2011 |

• Editorial
• 9/11
• spending
• terror

By Haviland Smith

In retrospect, It would be fascinating, and probably terrifying, to know even roughly what amount of money and resources it took for this country to prepare for the tenth anniversary of 9/11…

Unfortunately, although there has been vast media coverage of the massive security measures undertaken for 9/11, no one seems to be looking at it in terms of the extent of vulnerability in which these knee-jerk measures leave the nation and the further economic drain that they place on our economy.

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