Posted on 09/25/2006 6:53:41 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer
our mother country?
Talking to yourself is a sign of impending mental collapse.
This bill would require federal funds apportioned to the state under the coordinated border infrastructure program of SAFETEA-LU to be programmed, allocated, and expended in the same manner as other federal transportation capital funds in the state transportation improvement program, except that these federal funds would be exempt from being included in the transportation funds subject to the distribution and fair share formulas. The bill would also authorize these funds to be used for projects located in Mexico. The bill would authorize any nonfederal funds needed to match these federal funds to be programmed from any available local source or any available state transportation funding source, with the concurrence of the applicable regional transportation planning agency.
interesting...
I wouldn't have a problem with it if it was for building inspection and processing facilities on Mexican soil. That way we wouldn't have to deport the people who get caught.
It would seem we already subsidize Mexico to an unseemly degree. Welfare on a grotesque scale. I don't agree that it is appropriate to blur the lines in this way, on the allegedly pragmatic grounds of prophylactic action.
Clearly Mexico, as one of the richest nations on the planet... has all the resources they need right now to do whatever is necessary to staunch illegal border excursions by their own illegally migrating populace of have-nots....sanctioned and abetted by their governments.
All of them. Past, present, and undoubtedly future. They will gladly set up 'make-work'infrastructure on their side of the border, with our money. But what it will actually do will only be like W's virtual fence, only be a cosmetic window-dressing...a pretext for the continued non-enforcement which is the actual marching order of the millenium. It will give the Mexican government a thin cover under which it can continue a pretense of cooperation.
Your aversion to free speech is anti-American.
Where we disagree is that I think it's better to have the facilities than not.
It's not fair that I must weed my neighbor's property. It costs me a bundle, but it's cheaper than leaving them there to send their seed across the line because I can clear the infestation to its natural boundaries. My neighbors won't do anything about them.
The 1998 federal transportation act - Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) - established the Coordinated Border Infrastructure (CBI) Discretionary Program to fund border infrastructure projects. Agencies with eligible projects applied directly to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) for funding. Under the current federal transportation act - Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) - the CBI has been revised and is now a formula-driven funding program that provides funding to the states bordering Canada and Mexico for projects that "improve the safe movement of motor vehicles at or across the land border." Federal funding generally covers 80% of projects costs, subject to a sliding scale adjustment. The state is required to provide a match from non-federal sources to fund the remaining costs of the project. Eligible projects must be located within 100 miles of the border. Four counties in California are located within these boundaries: Imperial, Orange, Riverside, and San Diego.
Sounds like a bunch of blather. They ought to just say that nobody has a clue.
Precisely what I was thinking.
Foggy Bottom has always been a collection of NWO/UN enthusiast bureaucrats whose bumbling approach to protection of American interests abroad is almost beyond belief. The last thing they are interested in protecting is American sovereignty. We should have put it out of it's misery long ago.
Surely you don't expect that Austrian socialist, Arnold, to give a damn about American sovereignty.
Not at all. Blabber on all you want. You're only making a fool of yourself.
No, it is our government that is making fools of us citizens and taxpayers. Especially the State Department and especially Rice and Maisto.
Personally, I blame Tom Cruise.
In that region of context perhaps they have stable meaning, or not. Outside that meanings drift and fluctuate. If meaning were consistently constant why would words need to be put into sentences?
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