A Theory about the Lack of Terrorism for a Decade and Its Recent Revival

If there is a welfare–terrorism connection, could the relative lack of terrorist acts for most of the past decade be due the welfare reform of nineties? Could the recent revival be due to President Obama's attempts to undo the welfare reform? Maybe preventing terrorism is as simple as cutting budgets.

ObSF: “One hundred percent of nothing, and that is the secret of this crisis.”—Hober Mallow in Foundation by Isaac Asimov.