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To: TigerPaw who wrote (240853)	7/11/2005 4:55:18 AM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572209

tigerpaw, re:With half of the 100 billion that we spend in Iraq each year we could completely revamp mass transit to make it terror resistant, and provide transportation alternatives that would wean us off the oil. That would starve Al Qaeda. Harden one target they'll simply pick another, hence the phrase "soft targets". Besides it'll take at least $50 billion to drill ANWAR.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (240853)	7/21/2005 7:48:37 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572209

With half of the 100 billion that we spend in Iraq each year we could completely revamp mass transit to make it terror resistant No you couldn't. You couldn't completely revamp mass transit for only $50bil. You could put in extra security, but mass transit would still be a good target for terrorists, and most forms of extra security also make mass transit less useful. You can't make it almost completely terror resistant without making it almost completely useless. Even if you where right about $50bil making mass transit almost terror proof - 1 - There would still be other targets. and 2 - It’s a separate issue from Iraq. The federal governments spends about 2 and a half trillion per year. The states spend over a trillion more on top of that. Local government spending adds hundreds of billions more to the total. There is a lot of other places the money could come from. If $50bil is so crucial we should be able to find it out of over $4,000 bil of government spending in the US. Tim