Down On the Border

If you ever wondered whose guarding the hen house, well it isn't the yard guard with a 12 gauge to keep the fox away, folks its the fox and of late the fox's name is Uncle Obama. The southern border has quieted down a bit as to illegal entrants due to our economy being in the tank. But surprise-surprise the drugs just keeps coming in one way or another. In the desert areas of Arizona and New Mexico Drug Cartels from Mexico are fighting over areas and routes. There are not enough Border Patrol Agents to adequately cover the whole Southern Border with Mexico, so guess what they were doing. The Department of Homeland Security, DHS, has spent 1 Billion dollars just on a surveillance system covering 53 miles verifying entry when everyone knew the smugglers and illegals were crossing
Last week however, Janet Napolitano or as I respectfully refer to her as Big Sis, announced that the 53 mile section of the border that was being manned by a new surveillance system deployed by Boeing was going to be dropped. I mean, come on, I can understand if things aren't working but why not modify it or use parts of it to enhance the activities of human resources such as Border Patrol Agents, or maybe add some military, either National Guard or perchance start pulling our troops out of Iraq AND Afghanistan.
Finally think about this. 1 Billion Dollars for 53 miles. I just did some math and that comes out to $219,840 per foot. Do you think American workers could of put up one hell of a Fence for that amount. And then there's the ARRA and the billions they wasted on roads and shovel ready projects when they could have been working on the FENCE. Doesn't it just seem odd that now they are admitting some things don't work while not providing the resources to the Border Patrol for adequate fencing and manpower.
Folks there are solutions to problems but when this administration continues to waste money, worry more about legalizing the illegals and rely on solutions that have proven unworkable in the past it's time to start planning for a major change in personnel and direction. 2012 just can't get here too soon. http://tinyurl.com/4u3vz37