Do you all actually believe that the terrorists are TRYING to attack the US? Seriously. If a poor, uneducated Mexican can cross our border at will, do you think we can stop a trained, dedicated terrorist with almost unlimited funds? Put the coolaide down, folks, they are leaving us alone. TERROR!
TERROR!
It's all a shell game to distract us while they shred what is left of our Constitution.
Let's go over some interesting #'s.
# of deaths from 09/11=2,974+24 missing, so let's say 2,998.
# of murders in the US in 2007= 16,929
$ spent in Iraq as of 08/2008 $600,000,000,000.
LAPD Budget $1,189,000,000
NYPD Budget $2,000,000,000
NOPD Budget $91,000,000
LVPD Budget $466,475,681
etc..etc...
We could raise the LEO budget of the 600 largest cities in America by $1,000,000,000 each. This would double the LAPD, be 150% of NYPD and raise the NOPD by 10X's! I think that the $ would be much better spent in this manner. I'd even go so far as to say take $300,000,000 and secure our borders, then split the other $300,000,000 between the 300 largest cities in the US...
Let's go one step farther. Let's disband the ATF($1,014,000,000), stop the "War on Drugs ($7,900,000,000), and stop the "War on Terror($864,000,000,000)." That would give us around $872,914,000,000 to secure our borders from enemies without and within.