Of all the productive answers we could have come up with to solve unemployment in this country, "drones" is the best we could do. Terrific.
In a dark economic time, when the general pulse of society, concerning our financial future, is hopeless confusion at best, lawmakers have all but put the finishing touches on what will inevitably amount to the domestic arrival of drones; And something that we would have marched in the streets of Washington to ban twenty years ago, we are about to grudgingly accept.
"FAA estimates that 7,500 small drones, formally referred to as unmanned aircraft, will be in American skies by 2018. Drones will be fertilizing crops, aiding in search and rescue, and helping cops chase down criminals. And they’ll be creating jobs—lots of them, in areas such as manufacturing, training, and research and development. The unmanned aircraft industry hopes that there will be 100,000 people with drone-related jobs by 2025."
http://business.time.com/2013/05/01/where-will-the-drone-jobs-go-states-balance-economic-opportunity-with-privacy-concerns/#ixzz2S2tSUqeq
"Schneider and many others argue that specific drone legislation isn’t necessary because the 4th Amendment already protects Americans from privacy invasions. “The choice wasn’t between economic development and our civil rights,” he says. “I just don’t think the legislature needs to be singling out this one particular technology for heightened scrutiny when the courts have proven themselves capable of dealing with technological change within the context of our right against unreasonable searches and seizures.”
http://business.time.com/2013/05/01/where-will-the-drone-jobs-go-states-balance-economic-opportunity-with-privacy-concerns/#ixzz2S2wVSUCM
Forty-five days after 9/11, Congress passed the USA PATRIOT Act without reading it. This new law was supposed to protect you from terrorism, but it has really left you unprotected against lawless federal agents. The Patriot Act contains numerous violations of the Fourth Amendment. It gives federal agents vast new powers that have been abused to investigate innocent Americans.
More important, to keep in mind: Most Americans think they are protected from the Patriot Act because they are a United States citizen and most certainly would never put themselves in a situation to be considered a suspected terrorist. Well, I have bad news for you. Have you ever talked on your cell phone while wearing a backpack?
Contrary to claims by the DHS that it does not profile, the bulk of literature and other training tools issued by the federal government over the last decade clearly go to great lengths to demonize informed, middle class, and predominately white Americans as the most likely terrorists, despite the fact that the 126 people who were indicted on terrorist-related charges in the United States over the last two years were all Muslim.
In addition to recent rhetoric from the likes of Vice-President Biden that Tea Partiers are akin to “terrorists,” other legitimate grass roots activists such as End the Fed protesters have also been labeled as dangerous extremists by the federal government.
The FBI has also gone out of its way to characterize returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan as a major domestic terrorist threat. Additionally, Janet Napolitano said she stood by an April 2009 DHS intelligence assessment that listed returning vets as likely domestic terrorists.
In March 2009, an MIAC report, leaked by two concerned Missouri police officers, listed Ron Paul supporters, libertarians, people who display bumper stickers, people who own gold, or even people who fly a U.S. flag and equated them with radical race hate groups and terrorists. Indeed, the MIAC report is just one in a series of similar threat assessment documents released over the last decade that list average American citizens as dangerous extremists and potential terrorists.
And now, here come the drones. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, the drone industry’s lobbying arm that estimates that 100,000 drone jobs will be created by 2025, concedes that “restrictive legislation” could slow job growth. “States that create favorable regulatory and business environments for the industry and the technology will likely siphon jobs away from states that do not,” the study reads.
Like with most "evils", we have created an environment where another one seems justifiably necessary. However, it is impossible for an unmanned object to be good or evil, it doesn't take on that characteristic until it is in the hands of an individual or group. The question we must ask ourselves is: "Is our government good or evil?"