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prezdent bush jr and the repubs have given us a 700 mile long fence along the mexican border..
http://ap.lancastero...ush_immigration
ummm...the border between the united states amd mejico is 2000 miles long so are we to assume the mexicans aren't clever enough to enter along the other 1300 miles where there is no fence?
i am sure al quaeda won't think of that either.
suddenly i don't feel so safe.LOL
the 700 mile fence to nowhere
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Posted 26 October 2006 - 12:19 PM
QUOTE(harv1 @ Oct 26 2006, 12:04 PM) 
Faint echoes of the Berlin Wall perhaps? Just the beginning?
I believe the Berlin Wall was more about keeping folks in, as oppossed to keeping others out.
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Posted 26 October 2006 - 12:22 PM
What were people told while the Berlin Wall was being built? I'm rusty on that part of history... did they tell them that it was so those 'marrauding west berliners' wouldn't be coming over? And then it was too late after it was built? Serious question here.
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Posted 26 October 2006 - 12:33 PM
QUOTE(harv1 @ Oct 26 2006, 12:22 PM)
What were people told while the Berlin Wall was being built? I'm rusty on that part of history... did they tell them that it was so those 'marrauding west berliners' wouldn't be coming over? And then it was too late after it was built? Serious question here.
well at last the commies were smart enough to build a wall the whole way around.not so our fearless leaders.LOL
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Posted 26 October 2006 - 12:37 PM
"suddenly i don't feel so safe".LOL
Join the crowd.
Berlin Wall was about keeping people in, but I don't feel as if I need a wall after what we have been doing, and much of the rest of the world has reacted as it has. Don't feel as "at ease" when traveling overseas as used to. Don't wear a big, proud sign that says"I'm An American." Sorry. So, actual wall not necessary to feel confined.
Join the crowd.
Berlin Wall was about keeping people in, but I don't feel as if I need a wall after what we have been doing, and much of the rest of the world has reacted as it has. Don't feel as "at ease" when traveling overseas as used to. Don't wear a big, proud sign that says"I'm An American." Sorry. So, actual wall not necessary to feel confined.
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Posted 26 October 2006 - 01:13 PM
It is not a fence at all. This is nothing but an election year gimic to make it look like Bush and the Republicans are actually doing something.
First, the funding is $1.2 billion. Estimates for the wall range from $3 to $10 million PER MILE. So at most it would be 100-200 miles. Of course, that's assuming all of the money is actually spent on contruction of a wall.
But the legislation does not require that the money actually be spent building the wall! DHS prefers a high-tech virtual wall that will detect border crossers. IOW, we can watch and count how many cross the border because we do not have enough Border Patrol personnel to round them up.
http://www.msnbc.msn...9231/from/RS.4/
First, the funding is $1.2 billion. Estimates for the wall range from $3 to $10 million PER MILE. So at most it would be 100-200 miles. Of course, that's assuming all of the money is actually spent on contruction of a wall.
But the legislation does not require that the money actually be spent building the wall! DHS prefers a high-tech virtual wall that will detect border crossers. IOW, we can watch and count how many cross the border because we do not have enough Border Patrol personnel to round them up.
http://www.msnbc.msn...9231/from/RS.4/
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Posted 26 October 2006 - 01:43 PM
QUOTE(UncommonSense @ Oct 26 2006, 12:19 PM)
I believe the Berlin Wall was more about keeping folks in, as oppossed to keeping others out.
depends what side of the fence you'er on
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Posted 26 October 2006 - 03:25 PM
QUOTE(caitlinndad @ Oct 26 2006, 01:43 PM)
depends what side of the fence you'er on
Based on the perspective of the builder.
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Posted 26 October 2006 - 08:34 PM
Way to go!!! It's a good start!!! We need to keep the illegals out.
To bad a non US company won the contract to build and maintain it.
To bad a non US company won the contract to build and maintain it.
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Posted 26 October 2006 - 10:29 PM
"To bad a non US company won the contract to build and maintain it."
You mean Haliburton doesn't have a fence company? The Carlyle (sp?) does. As a matter of fact it's in Lancaster's own backyard (the company, not the fence).
You mean Haliburton doesn't have a fence company? The Carlyle (sp?) does. As a matter of fact it's in Lancaster's own backyard (the company, not the fence).
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