Saturday, June 22, 2013

PRISM Costs Lives

Bob Zubrin, NRO

quote:
Well, if we use the Department of Transportation’s high-end rate for allowable expenditures — $3 million per life — then $10 billion should save 3,333 lives. Has PRISM provided such a service?

The answer is no....Harvard researchers termed inefficiency of this sort “statistical murder,” since if the funds had been used in a more cost-effective manner, many thousands of additional lives might have been saved.

comment:

The expenditure of vast sums of money does not necessarily lead to good outcomes.  But that is what Congress typically tries to assert as truth.

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