Quote:So you would cut 361 billion dollars from federal social programs and spend it to save a dozen people a year from terrorists?

 

Don't you think that money would be better spent curing cancer or something?   Or applying it to the deficit?  

 

All I'm saying is, any spending has to involve choosing one thing over another.  Money doesn't grow on trees.   There is a limit.   Therefore, every spending decision we make has to come with some kind of cost-benefit analysis.   If we want to extreme vet every single person who comes into this country, in an attempt to exclude people with certain political-religious beliefs, I want to know how much that is going to cost and how many people will be saved before I agree to it.  We have to set priorities.   Islamic extremists might kill an average of a few dozen Americans a year.   Cancer kills hundreds of thousands.   Heart disease kills hundreds of thousands.   How do we set our priorities?  

 

When fear takes over, reason goes out the window.