why does the goverment spend so much money in natianal security if we are not even safe?

Question

i dont understand i mean so many people died on 9/11 !!! all our tax money is being taken out to "protect us" and we are still unsafe!!

Answer 1

The media does a excellent job of promoting fear. Why? Fear sells. Fear gets ratings.
9/11 was a horrific crime against the people of this country, and proved that no country is invulnerable from terrorists. Certain safeguards must be taken.
However, that does not mean you should live your life in fear, or subscribe to those telling you to do so. That's not much of a life.
Life your life as fully and as sensibly as you can, and don't fret over things that may never be. It's good to be informed and aware, just don't be afraid.

Answer 2

Previous presidents of both parties failed us. While other nations were taking precautions, we carried on as if there was no threat. Today we are better protected and safer but there is no such thing as 'Safe'. I don't want to get into 'how well' our tax money was spent. Government spending is always the worst way to spend money but that is a different issue.

The problem is that Islamic fanatics want to kill Americans. (Europeans also, but my point is directed at America decision making.) Terrorists want to kill thousands of not millions of Americans. They want to destroy our culture and our way of life. I think that is harder for them to do today than it was back on 9/11 because of the measures taken since.

So as far as I am concerned. It is money well spent. And I do feel safer.

Do not let your fears rule your life. Don't be a chicken little. Get the facts and get involved.

Answer 3

How do you know that the money you pay do not actually guarantee a somewhat better national security?

How do you know that the money you pay for national security ARE (or ARE NOT) spent doing things that would really guarantee national security?

Obviously, as long as there are things we don't know about concerning the money we pay for national security we can't possibly say they can make it safer.

Even for 9/11 I don't think we know the whole truth, and the more money we pay now, for surveillance cameras etc, are they there to guarantee the security or watch US, in the US?

Really, it is a matter of trust. Are the money spent for security, spent to protect our lives, watch our lives or both? Your decision.

Answer 4

There are 300 million people living in the U.S. Several thousand died on 9/11 from one act that has not been repeated. Climb out from under your bed and get a grip!

Answer 5

THe best way to combat terrorism is through counter intel and law enforcement cooperations. The counter intel part is getting better but cooperation is still very lacking. The biggest problem during 9/11 was our failure to connect the dots. We had the intel but no one connected the dots, because the CIA, FBI and local law enforcement did not cooperate with eachother, and it is still like this.

Answer 6

So whats the option??? Be sitting ducks with zero protection?

There's no way to ever guarantee total safety. Man has been killing man from the beginning of recorded time.

But....we can eliminate some risk that could effect masses of people...i.e. airport security increase, federal building security increas, tighter boarder patrol, etc....

Answer 7

As I see it, the government has two choices. The government can spend money on national security, or they can not spend money on national security.

The American people, in general are ignorant. They seem unable to grasp that if somebody is willing to die to kill you, you had better make out a will. Somebody who is willing, or even desirous, to trade his life for yours has absolutely nothing to lose. As it was once said of the Kamikazes, they were fighting to die, our forces were fighting to stay alive.

The American people are, in general ignorant. They really believe that everybody in the world can like us. They really believe that if we help a country, they’re going to be our friend. They say we can’t force our systems on other societies, but they try to judge other societies by our standards. They weep and moan over “stereotyping,” but they lump all Muslims (or maybe all of a certain Muslim sect) together as terrorists. They tell our leaders, be nice to illegal aliens, but protect us from any danger they might intend. They tell our leaders, don’t abridge any of our rights, but don’t let anybody hurt us. They tell our leaders to give foreigners the same rights accorded to citizens, but don’t let them undermine our economy or our society. They tell our leaders to protect them from their own stupidity, but not to expect any support in times of crisis.

If the government doesn’t spend money on national security, something bad might happen (again) and the people would scream, “Why didn’t you protect us?” If the government does spend the money, and nothing bad happens, people scream, “Why waste all that money that you should be using to bail us out of our own stupidity?”

People say we are unsafe. Those people are correct. You can be hit by a car, you can be struck by lightening, or you could be the victim of terrorism. But, since 9/11, there haven’t been too many acts of terrorism in the US. These people say that there might be one anytime. Yep. But these same people would scream bloody murder if every suspected terrorist was sent to the resort in Guantanamo. Remember, if a terrorist is willing to die to blow up something in the US, questioning him won’t get any straight answers. Properly applied torture might, but that too would raise a hew and cry. But putting them out of circulation until we have time to sort out their backgrounds, their affiliations, etc., while expedient, also raises the ire of the very people the expedient is designed to protect.

The moronic, spoiled children that call themselves Americans seem to think of compromise, or of finding the middle ground, means doing it exactly how and when each of them want it done. Fight a war, but don’t kill anybody. Protect us, but don’t do anything that will inconvenience us. Don’t let illegal aliens in, but don’t stop them either.

So, in an effort to choose the lesser of the two evils, the government undertakes national defense. No thinking person can believe any such endeavor could be 100% effective, but if it stops one attempted repeat of 9/11, they feel it’s worth it. And I’ll bet, if they stop a million such attempts, but finally miss one, these same moronic, spoiled children will scream, “You spent all that money.. and for what?”

Answer 8

It is an artificial means, just like the cold war was, to boost our economy. In some ways it is ingenius. However, it's not being done nearly as effectively as it should be.

Answer 9

Without doing what we do instead of being "unsafe" as you put it, you would be "dead"!