(Badwater Bill) wrote
So, for
$50 million in equipment and about another $100 million per year to
operate them, you seal the Mexican-U.S. border.

And here I thought you were smart. Clue time - nobody wants that
border sealed, or at least nobody who matters. The illegals who cross
that border are the migrant labor that the economies of Texas and
California (not to mention some smaller states) depend on.

The real problem with my solution is that it just doesn't cost enough.

No, the real problem is that nobody wants that border sealed so tight.

DHS (Dept. of Homeland Security) would never buy it
because they want to give away billion dollar grants to study the
problem.

Right - because that's all we're ever going to do. Study the
'problem.'

At my home field, a couple of guys just built hangers so they could
start on their F-1 Rockets (gotta relate this to homebuilding
somehow). Where do you think the labor came from?

Others want the borders to be open and that's why there are
2 illegal aliens coming across the Mexican border each minute of each
day.

Yes, that's exactly why. Nothing to do with your solution being too
cheap - nobody who matters really wants that border closed. So
basically, you were just wasting everyone's time, including your own.
Well, it's your time to waste - but then you have the nerve to put
down the people who went to a party instead.

I was trying to do something positive for my country

You mean having sealed borders? Frankly, when my parents left our
former country to come here and settle, that's one of the things they
wanted to avoid. I was too young at the time to understand, but in
retrospect I agree completely.

I have no idea how much I did or how much they listened.

Hopefully very little.

Michael