About 12,000 people die each year falling down stairs in the US alone.
Going by these numbers the proportionate response would be to spend at least a trillion dollars each year for a war on unsafe stairs.
A war on cancer on the other hand would eat up more than the US's GDP if it was to be in any way propotionate to the cost of lives.
Either would be more effective than the war on terror or the surveillance state at saving lives though.
About 12,000 people die each year falling down stairs in the US alone.
Going by these numbers the proportionate response would be to spend at least a trillion dollars each year for a war on unsafe stairs.
A war on cancer on the other hand would eat up more than the US's GDP if it was to be in any way propotionate to the cost of lives.
Either would be more effective than the war on terror or the surveillance state at saving lives though.