Our government is spendding a disproportionate share of tax money
on this surveillance and on x-ray or whatever machines plus the salaries for the people who man the x-ray machines at airports. And the numbers of people who just "might" be terrorists increases incrementally every time we send a drone or drop a bomb. There is something stupid going on here.
Keeping Americans safe is the most important job for our government. But the most important work that needs to be done to keep Americans safe is to provide affordable healthcare and medicine and GOOD jobs. That means manufacturing our own products to be sold in our country and educating our children without making them into life-long indentured servants and feeding all of us.
Free trade is making us less secure because it makes us less independent.
We have to have shoes to be able to walk outside our houses safely. And if we have to import almost all of our shoes, we are dependent on the countries that make our shoes. Our independence and therefore our security depends on having industry in our country. But, oh, it is so much more interesting to snoop on the internet and phone call database in the country.
It's all relative, but to me, snooping on our phone calls and e-mails is a far, far, far, far lower priority than producing enough shoes IN THE USA to keep America walking should we need to leave our homes.
The priorities are all askew in my view.
I'm posting this as an OP upon request.