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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 10:52 am
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Originally Posted by flyinbob
So what do you spend money on to make streets safer? Make all roads 10 mph? Stop signs every 50 feet? Video cameras everywhere to "watch" for crime? I'm with you on cutting TSA way back. But how about just giving us taxpayers our money back?
Now that is a much more salient argument, and I'm going to venture out on the limb and say that that was the real point of the OP's post, not the argument about how many people die in car accidents or the value of lives. Rather, the TSA has spent a fortune on Risk Avoidance rather than Risk Management. We certainly could cut the risk of auto accidents by lowering the speed limit to 10 mph, but society has decided that the amount of lives saved is insufficient to offset the lost convenience. Yet we allow the goons in DHS to spend all of this money on terrorism because it is a much more shocking event that gets lots of good press coverage. Auto accidents? Been there, done that, seems to be the attitude.

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