That willingness to prevent future violence includes collateral costs like expenditures for security measures, insurance and government welfare programs.
Consumer expenditures on security software is $3.6 billion.
But with the militarization of the police and new techniques of crowd control, not to mention the astronomical expenditures on security and the enforcement of sneaky by-laws to limit the freedom of assembly, street protests are pretty much like pissing into the wind these days, especially if that wind is carrying a lot of tear gas.
Without mythical enemies, Israel cannot justify its huge expenditure on security and defence, which contributes so much to the prosperity of the country.
The speech, like the campaign of which it is a linchpin, was positively Manichean: competence versus chaos, wise saving versus "deeply irresponsible" expenditure, Tory security versus Labour disaster.
Teams have also had to increase their expenditure on security to ward off a wave of attempted armed robberies of their local academies.The virulent anti-American rhetoric of Mr Chávez, a leftist who joined the army hoping to make it as (fittingly) a left-handed pitcher in Venezuela's military baseball league, has further unnerved players and teams.
The report from the London Assembly's Regeneration Committee found that reducing expenditure on security and some community events was "not ideal" when the park wanted to attract people to the area.
It is $74 billion lower than President Barack Obama's 2011 request, submitted 1 year ago and never enacted, and is divided between $56 billion in civilian spending and $18 billion for security expenditures, including $9 billion from the military.
According to the World Bank, which counts only on-budget security expenditures, just five other countries have military expenditures of more than five per cent of G.D.P., the highest figure being the fifteen per cent spent by oil-rich Oman.
Other significant budget problems include a substantial but demographically limited increase in Social Security expenditures, and immense and spectacularly wasteful defence spending.
