Posted on 08/23/2005 6:29:05 AM PDT by Happy2BMe
Only because it wasn't continuous, so the barbarian hordes could go around it...
I agree with you, though, that we need to make life IN the U.S. more unpleasant for the illegal aliens and their employers, too.
Sooner or later every president gets to the point where all of congress is looking forward to the next president and tuning him out. If both the other team and his own team are tuning this one out already, it WILL hurt him, and it could hurt the party in the mid-terms. He's not a little dictator up there. He has some unilateral power, true, put if everybody decides to drag their feet, well, as Truman put it, everybody then says Yess Sir!, Yes Sir! and nothing gets done.
Achtung! Minen!
I think we could bring the Democrats on board on this one! Let's propose a wall-building bill that includes the following: 1) all labor must be union members only 2) 100% of the contracts must be given to firms owned by women, minorities, and gays 3) all equipment and materials used to build the wall must be manufactured in the United States, by American companies, with 100% union labor 4) all transportation of materials and workers to the construction sites shall be via union trucking companies only and 5) all Federal anti-kickback laws shall be suspended with respect to this project.
Shouldn't be too hard to get the votes for this don't ya think?
A fence with razor wire ain't near enough. The illegal aliens already in the country need to be rounded up and deported. Any presidential candidate that doesn't have a strong platform to deal with the illegal invasion won't be getting my vote in 2008.
We will also need a project labor agreement.
Nations across the globe who guard their borders with force do not have millions of illegals invading their nation. Use of the military, with some spaced out 50-calibers guarding our borders, would cost far less than razor wire fence. Once the invaders saw we were serious, the invasion would slow to a trickle.
Our nation must decide between national sovereignty and protecting our borders versus token fences and politcal poppycock.
It won't work.
It can't be done.
Give up and give them Guest Worker amnesty.
Would it be cheaper to dig holes, cover them with straw, and have pointy stakes at the bottom?
Berlin wall worked pretty good.
Subcontract those bad boys. They know how to build a barrier!
It occurs to me that had we started building a barrier when they did, we would be pretty much done by now.
Check my tagline on #128.
Nothing works. I drank the koolaid.
The reason the politicians won't do anything constructive is they have another agenda. They want illegals to come here, so the vote of the middle class will be overthrown. They are getting good money from the Mexican lobbyists to overthrow our country, destroy the middle class, and usher in the great New North American Community, of which they will be the elites and we'll be the peasants.
I prefer a trench dug by illegals. If you are caught entering this country illegally, you do nothing but dig for a year before you are deported.
"Just because we have other boondoggles, we should add more boondoggles"
I join you in bemoaning the run away spending by our gvt. However that point does not mean the gvt can never do anything else ever again, because to do so would cost money.
I assume you advocate our immediate withdrawal from Iraq then too, since that costs plenty of money. Right?
There are very few things I think the fed should spend money on, but 2 of them just happen to be defense and securing our borders. That is the very purpose of the federal gvt, and that is, indeed, a conservative view.
I agree with you on the federal priorities.
I just think that we should admit that building the wall won't be as cheap or effective as some people seem to want to believe. That's my entire point.
Which hurts the citizens, or it might hurt the GOPs chances at mid-terms, but it won't hurt Bush. It might 'hurt his feelings' but he's already been re-elected.
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