Posted on 01/15/2011 1:48:22 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
The secruity fence is the largest infrastructure project in Israel's history. The cost of the project has ballooned from an expected $1 billion to more than $2.1 billion. Each kilometer of fence costs approximately $2 million.
Another Boeing giveaway.
If we had contracted the Israelis to do the job, it would have cost - at $2m a kilometer - $6.4b to build an fence for the entire length of the US-Mexico border (~3200 km). Bush did not wanted to build a fence - he just wanted something guaranteed to fail, but only long after his amnesty bill had passed. Of course, he did not foresee that the amnesty bill would fail.
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Napolitano’s decision “ends a long-troubled program that spent far too much of the taxpayers’ money for the results it delivered,” said Lieberman, I-Conn.
This statement is easily generalizable to all government spending (welfare, defense, “stimulus”, VA hospitals, pork barrel projects, etc, etc.)
More votes for Obama from the latino’s. While America fights at the border.
The fence, initiated in 2005, was to be a network of cameras, ground sensors and radars that would be used to spot incursions or problems and decide where to deploy Border Patrol agents. It was supposed to be keeping watch over most of this nation's southern border with Mexico by this year. Instead, taxpayers ended up with about 53 miles of operational "virtual fence" in Arizona for a cost of at least $15 million a mile, according to testimony in previous congressional hearings.A virtual barrier is needed, period. But also we need a physical one.
blueservo is still up.
"My Grandma, what big electronic eyes you have!"
"The better to doze in front of the monitors you are on, my dear!"
No substitute for boots on the ground or physical obstacles.
Any administration which fails to secure the border will be suspected by me, and possibly others of getting a 'cut' of that 'action' or being in thrall to those who do.
It is huge money.
Even Democrats can see there is a limit to the destruction this nation can absorb from militant invaders, one which will outweigh any political advantage the illegal vote gives them.
It has to be money, and the drug traffic is big bucks.
This tower-based system actually works quite well for the Marine Corps. SO well that HLS recvently sent some folks over to the Surface Warfare Training/Development Center to have a look.
http://www.marcorsyscom.usmc.mil/sites/cins/Fact%20Books/INTEL_MISC/G-BOSS_OIF.pdf
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