It's possible, but not likely.
I believe what the President said and tend to discount bureaucratic rumors for Kerry.
To bad the President has not been to the border. Me on the other hand, have spend 50+ hours a week, for the last 7 years, working on the border and its Ports of Entry.
My 7 years of first hand experience is far from the bureaucratic rumors for Kerry you wish to think it is.
My administration has tripled the amount of money we're spending on homeland security, to $30 billion a year.
To bad most of it is being wasted or mismanaged.
My administration worked with the Congress to create the Department of Homeland Security so we could better coordinate our borders and ports.
And so far, the DHS has turn out to be a huge bureaucratic blunder.
We got a thousand extra Border Patrol on the Southern border
He's either misinformed or he's a bold faced liar.
more than a thousand on the Northern border.
Of which most came from the Southern Border.
We're modernizing our borders.
Yes we are, too slowly, but we are modernizing. Of course, none of it matters, if you don't increase the manpower, which has not happened.
The reason no one is "doing anything" about the borders is simply because- why bother when you plan to institute a North American "trade zone"? The government isn't going to dump money into sealing up the border when it plans to erase it.
Pay no attention to the FTAA....continue you're spending...nothing to see here....Homeland Security! Yeah that's it!!
"To bad most of it is being wasted or mismanaged. "
Bingo. That is probably the biggest problem as it is in most government bureaucracies. It seems most govt employees are concerned with their union benefits and not this country. Social Security benefits will now be given to illegals and according the the GAO, SSA gave over one billion dollars in disability benefits to people who did not qualify. SSA's operating budget was 8.6 billion last year...
Source: GAO analysis based on SSA data.
www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-04-929.
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/useftp.cgi?IPaddress=162.140.64.88&filename=d04929.txt&directory=/diskb/wais/data/gao
SSA Should Strengthen Its Efforts to Detect and Prevent Overpayments
Overpayment detections in the DI program increased from $772 million in fiscal year 1999 to about $990 million in 2003. The true extent of overpayments resulting from earnings that exceed agency guidelines is currently unknown. Based on available data from SSA, GAO found that about 31 percent of all DI overpayments are attributable to DI beneficiaries who worked and earned more than allowed. Moreover, GAO found that these overpayments contributed to mounting financial losses in the program. From
1999 to 2003, total overpayment debt increased from about $1.9 billion to nearly $3 billion.
First, the agency lacks timely data on beneficiaries' earnings and work activity. Second, SSA uses inefficient processes to perform work continuing disability reviews (work CDRs).
Third, the agency relies on potentially inaccurate management information to effectively monitor and oversee some parts of this workload. These weaknesses contributed to some work CDR cases GAO identified that were as much as 7 years old, resulting in potential and established overpayments as large as $105,000 per beneficiary. In addition, GAO found that SSA relies on potentially inaccurate management information to administer its....`snip`