Project EUnuch & NSA efficiency

The K-Landnews team admits a mistake.

We mistakenly thought, the European politicians had gone fishing, resigned to being spied on by us.  Instead, some of them were busy fleshing out their answer to the NSA's PRISM and is unpublished siblings.

The project is European Union Notionally UnCensored Habitrail, or EUnuch for short. Explains our informed source: We were thinking about calling it Euro Disney to make it sound friendlier, but our lawyers told us in no uncertain terms the courts would hand us our d**** on a platter. This made us think of EUnuch.

EUnuch will be a set of guarantees from your government to behave nicely, and we have great confidence that the Europeans, including the country you guys codename State 51, that's what you do call Britain, right, will accept that.

With the EUnuchs busy and the NSA sifting through Twitter to catch another 20-something, the K-Landnews team put on the tin foil hats and started thinking.

What about the great American equalizer -- efficiency, cost and benefit, or - smile - bang for the buck?

The methodology is difficult to pick because of the Kafkaesque secrecy.

So, we looked at the issues of the constitution, the amendments, freedom, justice, the demands of the people, and we found a set of numbers and concepts.

It is a small and viable conclusion to look at the efficiency of the NSA and the NRA, both have to do with the security of the American citizen.  Sorry, you other triple letter folks, including you would be beyond the scope of the analysis.

We will work with numbers if that's okay. Since nobody gives us numbers for the NSA, we have to guess.

Both, NRA and NSA uphold constitutional amendments, numbers 2 and 4 respectively. Both are proudly national (National Rifle A., National Security A.).

Budgets and workers
NSA budget is unknown but we can assume it is more than State 51 or the K-Land spends on all military each year. Workers: upwards of 40 000 (says the press).

NRA budget: a 320 million. Workers: a thousand or so? Mostly unpaid volunteers.

Cost per life in the past 10 years
NSA programs saved lives but we won't tell you how many, says the gov.
So, we could assume 0, but we give the NSA a game score of say 100 saved.
Given the guessed budget over ten years, that comes out to a cost of over 1 billion USD per life saved. Each of us is incredibly valuable to the nation.

NRA lives saved and lives not saved: 30 000 plus per year. How much is 320 million divided by 30 000 again?

Which means, the NRA is at least one thousand times more efficient in terms of bang for the buck.

Political leverage compared
You cannot have 100% security and 100% privacy, said the gov.

Recent polls, according to the only credible US TV news The Daily Show, showed 90% of Americans wanted better gun control.  Denied by Congress and gov.

How many Americans want 100% security? 10%, 20% -- we don't know.
Assume 90%. Wish granted by Congress and gov.

Any questions?