Priorities
Oct 30th, 2007 at 9:33 am by Susie
No money for schools.
No money for healthcare.
No money to take care of veterans.
Ah, but we always have plenty of money to wage war and spy on everyone, including our own people:
The director of national intelligence will disclose today that national intelligence activities amounting to roughly 80 percent of all U.S. intelligence spending for the year cost more than $40 billion, according to sources on Capitol Hill and inside the administration.
The disclosure means that when military spending is added, aggregate U.S. intelligence spending for fiscal 2007 exceeded $50 billion, according to these sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the total remains classified.
Part of the problem that drives up this spending is the amount of intelligence agencies there are doing the work. The 9/11 commission listed 14 intelligence agencies which is 12 too many. There should be one for domestic and one for foreign. You do that and concentrate on human, not electronic, intelligence gathering you save money and most likely get a better product.