Posted on 12/06/2006 12:29:09 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
• High-tech solution: Congress and the White House are pushing forward with SBInet, a security plan that would deploy a mix of fencing, sensors, cameras and other surveillance technology to create a virtual barrier along U.S. borders.
• Current costs : SBInet will cost $1.2 billion this year and $7.6 billion through 2011 on the southern border alone, the Department of Homeland Security reported.
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Sounds like a great way to expand pork opportunities.
And to be tripped by every Jackrabbit that comes along.
What's the matter with building a real, visible, concrete-and barbed-wire fence?
This just sounds like a Contract giveaway.
While not build a 'real' fence, aka wall, that is cheaper and more effective.
Pay for it by fining the **** out of companies that support illegal immigration.
Nothing like wasting taxpayers money!
No "virtual" fence, build the real thing and keep the varmints out.
Too easy to complete, and, too cheap (not enough payoffs to contractors). Too visible - the public can see and understand if they're being ripped off by shoddy fence construction. All this hi-tech crap is easier to conceal, and make excuses for, when it doesn't work.
They don't need a Virtual Fence. And it certainly shouldn't cost $8M.
We have all the labor we need - millions of illegal invaders.
We have all the material we need - a lot of rock along the southern border.
Put them together and build the wall.
They should take a look at the Great Wall of China and use that as a pattern.
When they finish have them dig a moat on the Mexican side of the wall.
VOILA!! TWO problems solved for the cost of one.
We can use aerial surveillance to make sure nobody is crossing it.
ropes and wire snippers? :p
8 billion for a virtual fence? I guess the illegals have crossed over into virtual reality.
Actually,I think it is the people in our government, elected and appointed, that live in virtual reality.
The Pentagon took 16 months to build at a cost of $83 Million (1943 dollars). Pentagon Facts & Figures
Is there anything our current government can touch without screwing it up completely? < /rhetorical >
Border Fence bump for later..........
But the statistics will be wonderful. They will show that we need an extra Billion for more sensors because our count is only accurate to the second decimal place.
Maybe we can tie these into a virtual hunting game in which you get to zap illegals as they cross the border. Then the virtual ICE agents can arrest them.
Boy do they take us for the fools we often are.
That would be around 943 million in todays money. Not bad.
How about we enforce the law and fine every freaking company that hires illegals.
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