May. 26, 2010 at 8:59am with 1 note
What if the president had decided to give the money that it will cost to deploy 1,200 National Guardsmen (and -women) who are supposed to secure the fence to Mexico to the arts instead? Sure, that wouldn’t have been the shameless pandering to the extreme right that the president just pulled off, but it would actually have an actual benefit. Photo found here (by Don Bartletti/LA Times): “As with the photograph, the absurdity of the situation is pronounced, no matter which way we think of it.  If the troops are going to be used for interdiction, it makes no more sense to think that we can secure a 2,000 mile border with 1,200 troops (that’s one soldier for every 1.6 miles—and it assumes that each soldier is working 24/7/365) than that we can do it by building a wall fence.”

What if the president had decided to give the money that it will cost to deploy 1,200 National Guardsmen (and -women) who are supposed to secure the fence to Mexico to the arts instead? Sure, that wouldn’t have been the shameless pandering to the extreme right that the president just pulled off, but it would actually have an actual benefit.

Photo found here (by Don Bartletti/LA Times): “As with the photograph, the absurdity of the situation is pronounced, no matter which way we think of it.  If the troops are going to be used for interdiction, it makes no more sense to think that we can secure a 2,000 mile border with 1,200 troops (that’s one soldier for every 1.6 miles—and it assumes that each soldier is working 24/7/365) than that we can do it by building a wall fence.”

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