Uncle Sam Wants Your Product

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By Jess Sullivan

A few months from now, the nation will mark the fifth Day of Remembrance of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
     Two of the ongoing lessons of 9/11: Government understands the nation’s security is too important to be left to government, and the breadth and size of the country’s infrastructure is no longer under government control or able to be secured by business or industry.
     Perhaps Ronald Reagan said it best: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’ ”
     It has taken time, but government may have finally put in place the steps needed to find answers to
potential threats. Those answers, in the form of business opportunities, will come from the marketplace of ideas.
     Three years ago, President Bush summed up the future of homeland security: “This effort will involve major new programs, new or expanded efforts by state and local governments, private industry, nongovernmental organizations and citizens,” he declared. Since 9/11, the federal government has spent more than $200 billion for homeland security, with the Sacramento area receiving about $35 million of that funding.
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