As Daniel Weeks explains today, the Congress -- contrary to popular opinion -- is not "broken"; it is working perfectly for its actual owners. Or, as he puts it, "Washington isn't broken -- it’s fixed":
Our problem today is not a broken government but a beholden one: government is more beholden to special-interest shareholders who fund campaigns than it is to ordinary voters. Like any sound investor, the funders seek nothing more and nothing less than a handsome return -- deficits be darned -- in the form of tax breaks, subsidies and government contracts.
fighting Terrorism isn't the goal that security spending is supposed to fulfill;
the security spending (and power vested by surveillance) is the goal itself, and Terrorism is the pretext for it.
For that reason, whether the spending efficiently addresses a Terrorism threat is totally irrelevant.
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