"Chad Irby" wrote

In reality, you'd have to buy a few thousand Patriot batteries, enlist a
few hundred thousand people to man them 24/7, and then the bad guys
would do something else to kill people.

Patriot batteries don't require many people.

You either man the fire department, or you don't. Just think if we didn't
have fire departments because they were just too expensive.

Is losing an economic center cheaper than manning a defense?