After 9/11, the Bush Administration started one of the largest government agencies ever and we are spending some $75 billion dollars a year on security. Is it worth it? A Ohio State University professor puts the terror business into a bit of perspective:
“The number of people worldwide who are killed by Muslim-type terrorists, Al Qaeda wannabes, is maybe a few hundred outside of war zones. It’s basically the same number of people who die drowning in the bathtub each year. So if your chance of being killed by a terrorist in the United States is 1 in 3.5 million, the question is, how much do you want to spend to get that down to 1 in 4.5 million?”