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I thought tha the Dems were opposed to spending more on Homeland Security, but Nancy wants to check every container coming in. The cost would be staggering, but the Longshoremen would probably be happy to hear it.

I'd love for womeone to ask her how much it would cost to open every container that comes into the country. I'll bet that she doesn;t even have a clue, let alone an estimate.

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Can you imagine the cost and the time involved in checking every container. Further I guess the idiot doesn't realize that containers are checked at their port of departure.

[There's millions of'em]

I'd love for womeone to ask her how much it would cost to open every container that comes into the country.

Don't have to open them. We have the xray technology to do it, had it since the late 80's. It was voted down by a congressional committee in 1990 in secret, when it was first proposed. Technology is still around and being used. Entire cost can be covered by a container inspection fee, partially offset by less time required to get the containers through the port. Course, now we have to worry about inspecting them offshore to prevent the wmds from getting offloaded AT the port.