Stupid Fence!

Today, the Senate voted to build a giant fence. (Senate endorses citizenship plan, calls for border fence)

You stupid, stupid morons.

First of all, it's going to cost an ass-load of money. My sister and brother-in-law just had a 60-foot wooden fence installed at their house. I think it cost a couple of thousand dollars. So, multiply it by "needs to be made of cement or metal" and 5 times as high, plus, as specified in the bill "triple-layered." Times however many feet in a mile times a few hundred miles, and of course, it's the government so it will cost 10 or 12 times as much, more, since they really can't use any illegal immigrants as workers. Does Haliburton build fences? Oh, I'm quite sure they do now.

But it would be worth it to secure our borders. Only, it won't go the entire length of the border. If the edge of your yard is 80 yards long, you don't put up a 40 yard fence to keep your dog in.

And sure, here in the U.S. we have all sorts of technological marvels, but I think even in the small towns of Mexico they have access to "Ladder" technology. And I think that "Rope" was actually invented in Mexico (el ropa).

And best of all it used to be that to sneak across the border, you needed to cross miles and miles of dangerous terrain, both on the Mexican and U.S. side of the border. But in order to build the fence, they'll need to build modern roads to every point in the border. Because they're not going to carry all the steel and cement out there on horseback. They'll need trucks. And places for the workers to eat and sleep. So once you get to the border, any point in the border where there's a fence, and over the fence, it will be easy going to get to anywhere else in the U.S.

But at least they're giving the appearance of doing something...

Morons.