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Hey Hessian... how high a fence do you want to put across our southern border? 10ft? 20ft? How much does a ladder cost in Mexico? How much does a couple of shovels to dig under your vaunted wall cost? Unless you're willing to set up a Berlin Wall of sorts, heavily built and reinforced with armed guards, mines, and machine gun positions, you aren't going to keep the immigrants out. And what happens when you start blowing up pregnant women with mines, or filling them with 7.62MM NATO rounds? Would you be willing to take the heat when those pictures start flashing around the world's TV screens? I doubt it.
Our parks have always claimed to be undermanned and underfunded... so what? And why pick on Mars? The Department of the Interior blows about $250,000 a piece on hundreds of various economic, ecological, or environmental studies at these parks every year... and end up with information they could have gotten just by asking the staffs at the parks the right questions. Those millions of dollars would buy a lot of rangers and porta-poties. Rather than making consultants rich, the DOI could listen to their own people and help resolve the budget problems at the same time.
I hate to tell you this, but our borders are zero percent more secure than they were before 9/11. Borders can only have two levels of security - zero and a hundred percent. With our open society and mass transportation systems, having even 1% of our borders unprotected means someone can get anywhere in the country in a matter of a few hours, which is to say they can go anywhere, from anywhere; which means there's no such thing as a partially secure border. This is why it's so vital that we kill the bad guys before they get here... which is what Bush is trying to do.
The states get billions of dollars from the feds each year to repair bridges and roads, and what happens to it? Take a look at how long it's taken to get RT 235 done, or worse, I-95 north of Norfolk done, for the answer. Doing away with the inefficiency, corruption, and fraud, waste, and abuse that are such a major factor in highway projects would result in enough money to rebuild anything that needs to be rebuilt. Throwing all that Mars money into highway and bridge projects would just be throwing more good money after bad. At least the Mars probe doesn't spend its days leaning on a shovel.
There are a lot of issues effecting farmers that are causing family farms to close down. One big one is that the kids don't want to keep the farm going, so the farmer sells out when he's ready to retire. Also, if a farmer gets approached my a major company and is offered a fist full of money for his land and says "yes", how is that a problem of the federal government? Besides, we're already subsidizing farmers, so how much subsidizing is ever going to be enough?
When did healthcare become a right in this country? I've found that everytime a politician says "healthcare for everyone" what they're really saying is "heathcare for those who aren't paying for it now", which means not only that I have to keep paying for own healthcare but that I'm also going to have to start paying for people who aren't giving me anything in return. How many of those millions have access to health insurance but decline to purchase it? Speaking for myself, I know I could get a lot more enjoyment out of the $200 that I spend a month on health coverage than watching it go into some insurance company's pockets, but that's the scarifice that I have to make to protect my family. What a deal! I get to lose more of my meager paycheck so that some doof who would rather buy beer and smokes than pay for health insurance can go to the doctor... or maybe so that some welfare mom with five kids and no jobs can get into the hospital to pop out kid #6.
I would much rather see my tax $$$ going to bring back a cup of Mars dirt that going torwards universal healthcare. If the Mars dirt is worthless, we won't waste a lot of money hanging out there. If there's money to be made, we'll make back our investment. Now, take that same $820,000,000 and spend it providing health care to the millions of uninsured. What happens then? What happens when those millions who rarely went to the doctor before due to the cost are suddenly told by Uncle Sam that "it's on me!" That $820,000,000 is going to disappear faster than Speedy Gonzalez! And who's going to determine what can and can't be covered? Once Uncle Sam is paying the bill, the sky's the limit right? I mean... how can you say we're going to provide healthcare and then tell the unwashed masses that you're going to hand it out with a financial eyedropper? Isn't looking out for the health of all Americans worth more than money? The truth is that $820,000,000 would turn into $820 billion in no time and probably wouldn't stop there. I would much rather invest in dirt thank you very much.
Our parks have always claimed to be undermanned and underfunded... so what? And why pick on Mars? The Department of the Interior blows about $250,000 a piece on hundreds of various economic, ecological, or environmental studies at these parks every year... and end up with information they could have gotten just by asking the staffs at the parks the right questions. Those millions of dollars would buy a lot of rangers and porta-poties. Rather than making consultants rich, the DOI could listen to their own people and help resolve the budget problems at the same time.
I hate to tell you this, but our borders are zero percent more secure than they were before 9/11. Borders can only have two levels of security - zero and a hundred percent. With our open society and mass transportation systems, having even 1% of our borders unprotected means someone can get anywhere in the country in a matter of a few hours, which is to say they can go anywhere, from anywhere; which means there's no such thing as a partially secure border. This is why it's so vital that we kill the bad guys before they get here... which is what Bush is trying to do.
The states get billions of dollars from the feds each year to repair bridges and roads, and what happens to it? Take a look at how long it's taken to get RT 235 done, or worse, I-95 north of Norfolk done, for the answer. Doing away with the inefficiency, corruption, and fraud, waste, and abuse that are such a major factor in highway projects would result in enough money to rebuild anything that needs to be rebuilt. Throwing all that Mars money into highway and bridge projects would just be throwing more good money after bad. At least the Mars probe doesn't spend its days leaning on a shovel.
There are a lot of issues effecting farmers that are causing family farms to close down. One big one is that the kids don't want to keep the farm going, so the farmer sells out when he's ready to retire. Also, if a farmer gets approached my a major company and is offered a fist full of money for his land and says "yes", how is that a problem of the federal government? Besides, we're already subsidizing farmers, so how much subsidizing is ever going to be enough?
When did healthcare become a right in this country? I've found that everytime a politician says "healthcare for everyone" what they're really saying is "heathcare for those who aren't paying for it now", which means not only that I have to keep paying for own healthcare but that I'm also going to have to start paying for people who aren't giving me anything in return. How many of those millions have access to health insurance but decline to purchase it? Speaking for myself, I know I could get a lot more enjoyment out of the $200 that I spend a month on health coverage than watching it go into some insurance company's pockets, but that's the scarifice that I have to make to protect my family. What a deal! I get to lose more of my meager paycheck so that some doof who would rather buy beer and smokes than pay for health insurance can go to the doctor... or maybe so that some welfare mom with five kids and no jobs can get into the hospital to pop out kid #6.
I would much rather see my tax $$$ going to bring back a cup of Mars dirt that going torwards universal healthcare. If the Mars dirt is worthless, we won't waste a lot of money hanging out there. If there's money to be made, we'll make back our investment. Now, take that same $820,000,000 and spend it providing health care to the millions of uninsured. What happens then? What happens when those millions who rarely went to the doctor before due to the cost are suddenly told by Uncle Sam that "it's on me!" That $820,000,000 is going to disappear faster than Speedy Gonzalez! And who's going to determine what can and can't be covered? Once Uncle Sam is paying the bill, the sky's the limit right? I mean... how can you say we're going to provide healthcare and then tell the unwashed masses that you're going to hand it out with a financial eyedropper? Isn't looking out for the health of all Americans worth more than money? The truth is that $820,000,000 would turn into $820 billion in no time and probably wouldn't stop there. I would much rather invest in dirt thank you very much.
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