Posted on 05/30/2007 6:22:13 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Actually, you are mostly correct. Just follow the money trail and find out who stands to profit the most with this project. You can bet it won’t be the laborers, small businesses and villages along the way.
EZPass for the Border
Mocny confirmed that DHS had chosen the radio transmitter technology, called RFID, for use in the new cards. Separate lanes will be set up at land border crossings for cardholders who have gone through a voluntary pre-screening process.
Snip...Kraninger, for her part, is betting millions of Americans won't mind having a government-issued radio transmitter in their pockets if it'll save time at the border. Hundreds of thousands of Americans use the same technology every day in their cars to drive through the fast lanes at tollbooths. "It's the same risk people use in other contexts," she says, "like the use of an EZpass."
(Kathy Kraninger, director of DHS's newly created Screening Coordination Office)
FAST Moves to Mexico
"The Homeland Security Department is expanding its trusted-vehicle program to Mexican ports.
The program uses wireless radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags to identify and speed border crossing for trucks and drivers that the department has registered as secure."
There are SENTRI Lanes and FAST lanes all which use RFID tags.
U.S. and Mexico Agree on Border Safety and Security Measures
-- Ensure the expansion of Secure Electronic Network for Traveler's Rapid Inspection (SENTRI) lanes at six additional land ports of entry this year
-- Ensure the expansion of Free and Secure Trade (FAST) lanes at five additional land ports of entry on the southern border this year
You really have no knowledge of what you're talking about, do you?
That’s pretty sad. You can’t even come up with your own stuff and have to play second fiddle.
You’re “the winner” in my book!
Wow! Eleventy jillion. And who might be the one who pays your keep?
Hey, good news. Your eight hours is almost up. You did such a good job today, why don’t you give yourself a raise.
Actually they should be noted for abuse as they add nothing to the thread except the ability to troll... JimRob should look into them...
Trade is one thing, the erosion of our borders is a real issue, whatever you call it. We are losing jobs overseas, we are in an incredible trade deficit worldwide. These problem are mathematical. If money goes out, and less, and less comes in, well, it doesn’t take a brain to see what will happen.
These corridors are a symptom of our trade hemorrhage, trinkets come in (cheap goods) and capital flows out. The trinkets devalue as soon as they are bought, the capital can be invested by foreigners and will grow in value.
All of this is bad.
This is a worthwhile discussion, and could have been interesting except for two sad morons who think they are "clever," but they are not. Thomas Jefferson would spit on the two of you, honestly. Your trolling ruins this board.
It's terrible, we're up to 4.5% unemployment.
These problem are mathematical. If money goes out, and less, and less comes in,
Actually, the same comes in as goes out. You might want to look up the term, "Balance of Payments".
it doesn’t take a brain to see what will happen.
You're proof of that.
this super corridor was cooking in the u.s. congress for the better part of two decades.
but our media failed to inform us of the details.
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