whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?

It turns out that the powers that be have finally come to pull their heads out of their asses and lake a deep breath of reality -- and realize that there are bigger killers than terrorism. Specifically, one report is showing that 390 times more people die of traffic accidents than international terrorism. Imagine that...as budgets for taking away peoples' pocketknives quadruple seventeen times over, the normal stuff of life is killing more people. A quick googling of the CDC shows 20 times more people died of the flu in 2002 than terrorism in 2001 -- and then there's the at least 1300 people that died in Katrina.

That last bit is the greater tragedy, if you ask me, because FEMA has been hit especially hard by budget cuts since 9/11 and its move under the umbrella of Homeland Security. The vast majority of "emergency" funding in this country is devoted to the possibility of terrorism...a possibility that will most likely occur, but only after tens and hundreds of thousands of American citizens die of other causes every single year, causes that are losing fundage to the spectre of terror.