Yet Another Expensive Bush Administration Failure
Another Bush monstrosity fails. His virtual fence along the Mexican border doesn't work and will be delayed for at least three years.
The Washington Post reports, "Investigators for the Government Accountability Office had earlier warned that the effort was beset by both expected and unplanned difficulties. But yesterday, they disclosed new troubles that will require a redesign and said the first phase will not be completed until near the end of the next president's first term.
"Those problems included Boeing's use of inappropriate commercial software, designed for use by police dispatchers, to integrate data related to illicit border-crossings. Boeing has already been paid $20.6 million for the pilot project, and in December, the DHS gave the firm another $65 million to replace the software with military-style, battle management software."
Giving Boeing millions of taxpayers' money and its product doesn't work...par for the course for the Bush administration and its corporate profiteering cronies.
Bush's administration has even played favorites with the 700 mile steel and concrete border wall, destroying the homes and property of regular working Americans and public institutions but bypassing the property of rich Republican donors, like oil tycoon, Ray L. Hunt, a close friend of Dubya's.
Bush's wall is also destroying the environment as the Orwellian Department of Homeland Security has already waived environmental regulations to erect the barrier.
Like most of the Bush administration's Rube Goldberg like idiocies that can't even effectively finish a simple task, this one is already a failure before completion.
From environmentalgraffiti comes this gem, "They have bravely persisted in building the fence despite repeated assertions from a variety of sources that it will be massively expensive and completely ineffective. (My personal favorite piece of anti-border fence media comes from Penn & Teller’s: B*llsh$T. They built a fence to the specs the government created, then had several undocumented immigrants try to get through, under, and over it. It took about 5 minutes for 6 people to get through.)"
All of this to supposedly create new, yet flawed, immigration policies which didn't even make it through the Senate anyway.
The next Democratic president and Democratic controlled Congress should call a halt to Bush's monstrous border fence debacle.
A Democratic administration and Congress should tackle and solve the issue of illegal immigration in a logical, humane, moral, and ethical way. To begin with, stop right wing Bushites' willy-nilly deportation of immigrants and release all those immigrants and their families imprisoned in Bush's concentration camps.
Democrats must address a major cause of illegal immigration: NAFTA
NAFTA has been a disaster for jobs and communities here in the US and also for workers and communities in Mexico.
This from CommonDreams:
"Falling industrial wages, peasants forced off the land, small businesses liquidated, growing poverty: these are direct consequences of NAFTA. This harsh suffering explains why so many desperate Mexicans -- lured to the border area in the false hope that they could find dignity in the US-owned maquiladoras -- are willing to risk their lives to cross the border to provide for their families.
The United States is and always has been a nation of immigrants. We must continue to honor that heritage.
The Washington Post reports, "Investigators for the Government Accountability Office had earlier warned that the effort was beset by both expected and unplanned difficulties. But yesterday, they disclosed new troubles that will require a redesign and said the first phase will not be completed until near the end of the next president's first term.
"Those problems included Boeing's use of inappropriate commercial software, designed for use by police dispatchers, to integrate data related to illicit border-crossings. Boeing has already been paid $20.6 million for the pilot project, and in December, the DHS gave the firm another $65 million to replace the software with military-style, battle management software."
Giving Boeing millions of taxpayers' money and its product doesn't work...par for the course for the Bush administration and its corporate profiteering cronies.
Bush's administration has even played favorites with the 700 mile steel and concrete border wall, destroying the homes and property of regular working Americans and public institutions but bypassing the property of rich Republican donors, like oil tycoon, Ray L. Hunt, a close friend of Dubya's.
Bush's wall is also destroying the environment as the Orwellian Department of Homeland Security has already waived environmental regulations to erect the barrier.
Like most of the Bush administration's Rube Goldberg like idiocies that can't even effectively finish a simple task, this one is already a failure before completion.
From environmentalgraffiti comes this gem, "They have bravely persisted in building the fence despite repeated assertions from a variety of sources that it will be massively expensive and completely ineffective. (My personal favorite piece of anti-border fence media comes from Penn & Teller’s: B*llsh$T. They built a fence to the specs the government created, then had several undocumented immigrants try to get through, under, and over it. It took about 5 minutes for 6 people to get through.)"
All of this to supposedly create new, yet flawed, immigration policies which didn't even make it through the Senate anyway.
The next Democratic president and Democratic controlled Congress should call a halt to Bush's monstrous border fence debacle.
A Democratic administration and Congress should tackle and solve the issue of illegal immigration in a logical, humane, moral, and ethical way. To begin with, stop right wing Bushites' willy-nilly deportation of immigrants and release all those immigrants and their families imprisoned in Bush's concentration camps.
Democrats must address a major cause of illegal immigration: NAFTA
NAFTA has been a disaster for jobs and communities here in the US and also for workers and communities in Mexico.
This from CommonDreams:
"Falling industrial wages, peasants forced off the land, small businesses liquidated, growing poverty: these are direct consequences of NAFTA. This harsh suffering explains why so many desperate Mexicans -- lured to the border area in the false hope that they could find dignity in the US-owned maquiladoras -- are willing to risk their lives to cross the border to provide for their families.
The United States is and always has been a nation of immigrants. We must continue to honor that heritage.
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