Posted on 05/24/2007 2:38:30 PM EDT by Shermy
President uses law's escape clause to drop funding for new homeland security force.
From 2005:
Washington -- The law signed by President Bush less than two months ago to add thousands of border patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border has crashed into the reality of Bush's austere federal budget proposal, officials said Tuesday.
Officially approved by Bush on Dec. 17 after extensive bickering in Congress, the National Intelligence Reform Act included the requirement to add 10,000 border patrol agents in the five years beginning with 2006. Roughly 80 percent of the agents were to patrol the southern U.S. border from Texas to California, along which thousands of people cross into the United States illegally every year.
But Bush's proposed 2006 budget, revealed Monday, funds only 210 new border agents.
We don't believe you!
You betcha!
This "amendment" for "tougher border security" will be marked the same as that bill was, "Subject to the Availability of Appropriations."
And we can all figure out what that means. When Amnesty time comes there will be PLENTY of appropriations. When enforcement comes, there will be NO appropriations.
Deception, deception, deception. If we all just run on the premise that our government is deceiving us at all times and places, we'll be a lot better off.