Today CNN covered a story about the Sec. of Homeland Security questioning the cost to implement the new state driver’s licenses under the Real ID Act that was signed into law May 11, 2005 and which has yet to be implemented. This is an essential element to know the identify people in the U.S. There could not be anything more basic to fight terrorism in the United States.
To show just how faulty the judgment of the Bush administration is first over two years after Bush signed it into law we are still talking about the cost.
Second let’s look at that cost. The estimate according to Secretary Chertoff is $11 Billion Dollars. The estimated cost to the United States from 9/11 is between $1-2 Trillion dollars! Bush is spending over $12 Billion Dollars every month on a useless war in Iraq. Now let’s see should we spend $11 Billion to help protect our country from future attack or spend $12 Billion next month in Iraq? Should we spend $11 Billion to help prevent another 9/11 or risk another 3,000 dead Americans and two trillion dollars?
These are the choices Bush and this administration is making about the future of our country!