[MRM]

According to the graphic above, we've spent $60 billion on the TSA alone, at a rate of $7 billion a year, not including the costs associated with the lost time, efficiency and damage to the airlines. In comparison, the World Trade Centers were insured for $5 billion. Almost three thousand people died, with 9/11 Trust Fund payments averaging about $2.5 million per person. About 12,000 were injured; I don't have any cost figures for them, but let's say a million dollars a piece. So we have $5 billion in property damage, $7.5 billion in death and 1.2 billion in injury benefits, and let’s say another billion dollars in damage to the Pentagon, first responders, etc. So where are we, about 15 billion dollars for the direct economic impact of the 9/11 attacks in terms of personal injury, death and property damage? Someone check my math.

In other words, we spend so much on the TSA, that we could completely pay for a 9/11 disaster every other year.

This is how terrorists win. They spend about a half million dollars causing us $15 billion in direct damages, which goaded us into spending additional trillions to avoid another disaster. With that level of spending goes an assumption that we should surrender both our treasure and personal freedoms to ensure it never happens again until we've spent so much that we go bankrupt and we surrender so many freedoms that we live under the same kind of totalitarian state we were fighting to prevent.