User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-68.35.77.13-20140205191355

I won’t get into the “nothing to hide” argument—I see in these comments it’s a debate in which both sides have unassailable arguments. So to speak. Another thing about the NSA that concerns me is this. The NSA uses vast resources, from humans (many of them very expensive, down through supporting office staff and even janitors, and of course managers for one and all…) to material (gawd, tons of paperwork and filing cabinets and office supplies and PostIt notes and chairs and cubicles and on and on…) to utilities (lights and water and sewage and…). And think of that vast computer power! All this vast resource, for which WE’RE paying, could be put to so much more productive use elsewhere. If nothing else, computer and brainpower alone. And the USA is strapped for cSh. Like broke!and vr