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$107 Billion and Counting (#1778)
Posted: 9/10/2005; 7:48 PM by Terry Frazier
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According to the 2005 Dept. of Homeland Security Budget in Brief, the total expenditures for 2003-2005 exceed $107 billion. Let me repeat that:

$107 billion

This does not include the special appropriations made for Katrina. It is just the operating funds for the largest bureaucracy in American history. If we were to demand that the governemnt calculate a Return on Investment (ROI), which is how most businesses determine if something is worth doing, I suspect we would be able to identify precisely one piece of tangible  evidence for this massive expenditure - the Disney-like Homeland Security Advisory System.

But we do see enormous burdens on travelers, citizens, airlines, and airports, as well as enormous profit opportunities for bureaucrats, technology companies, and people with hare-brained ideas to sell to the government.

It is amazing what we have come to accept from our elected representatives.
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