We're talking about a multi-trillion dollar debt apparently representing generational theft, not the risk of terrorism.

Marcia was talking about the state of the country, and you replied that since we weren't walking around with gas-masks, that things must be all seashells and balloons right now.

A country facing the risk of terrorism is different than a country that had their own airplanes flown into their own buildings that killed over 3,000 innocent civilians in one day.