"The Emergency Broadcast System, mandatory for all TV and radio stations and cell phone services, costs hundreds of millions (they won't give us the exact number but "modernizing" it for cell phones alone cost $106 million). Yet the emergency warning has never been activated nationwide. Two times it was tested and both were failures. On 9/11, it wasn't even activated!
Did this put Americans in extra danger? No, because fortunately, we still have a private sector. After the World Trade Center was hit, a thousand radio and TV stations broadcast information about the attack with speed and thoroughness that federal bureaucrats could never match.
Did the Feds then sheepishly apologize, and announce that there was no longer a need for an expensive government warning system, given our myriad of radio and TV stations, not to mention Facebook, Twitter, and other miracles of the Internet? No, of course not! The bureaucracy never shrinks."
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