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Republicans are slightly more likely than Democrats to say the country's military is currently not strong enough; Democrats are much more inclined to feel the government spends too much on the military." (Carroll, 2007)
When young men and women died on Virginia Tech's campus in April this year, many people wondered where the government was and was it not federal responsibility to provided adequate security to vulnerable students. It is not an isolated incident. There has been a series of such attacks in recent times and each one was worse than the one preceding it. While the government may deny any responsibility in such matters, the fact remains that, if our administration would pay closer attention to important issues in the homeland, such ugly incidents can be averted to a large extent. For example, if we had taken this seriously when it happened the first time, we could have saved many more young lives. The way government went on a spending spree tightening every nut and bolt after September 11, was not witnessed after horrible massacres at home and this is what resulted in more of them, taking with them many more valuable lives. The handling of Katrina and Rita says a great deal about emergency management in the U.S. especially by the present U.S. administration as one source adds: Natural disasters cause even greater destruction because of the increasing interdependence of the natural and constructed environments... Taken alone, the disaster does not reveal much about the capacity of the federal government to address the usual disasters that occur each year, but it does point to the limits of the government's current capacity to address catastrophe...." (Roberts, 2005)
Government has been adamant about increased funding for war, completely ignoring any every kind of castigation which goes to show that public voice has little impact on President's obstinate albeit dangerous resolve to win at all costs. It is high time that we impugn the validity of extra funding, challenge the war itself and question the reckless use of taxpayers' valuable dollars.
References
Joseph Carroll, "Perceptions of "Too Much" Military Spending at 15-Year High," Gallup News Service, 02 March 2007;
http://www.galluppoll.com/content/Default.aspx?ci=26761&pg=1&VERSION=p.
Patrick S. Roberts (2005) "What Katrina Means for Emergency Management," the Forum: Vol. 3:Issue. 3, Article 2 Available at http://www.bepress.com/forum/vol3/iss3/art2
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