Congress OKs 700 miles of fence on border with Mexico

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/29/fence.congress.ap/index.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans will go into the elections with a message that they’ve made great strides fighting illegal immigration, including authorizing a fence along one-third of the U.S.-Mexico border and making a $1.2 billion down payment on it.

Among its final tasks before leaving to campaign, the Senate on Friday night passed and sent to President Bush a bill authorizing 700 miles of fencing on the nearly 2,000-mile long southern border.

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Let us 2,000 divided by 700 times 1.2 billion = 4,200,000,000 dollars. FIRST I hear Bush is unaware that the entire border is 2,000 miles long…I hear he has a hard time visualizing numbers over 999…his aids try to simplify everything and of course, CONGRESS doesn’t want to confuse him either plus just quoting part of the total make it seem much more reasonable. Sort of like how the airlines advertise the price of 1/2 a round trip…with a note in small letters saying a round trip ticket is required. Then there is the public who will easily accept a little number like 1.2 billion rather than the whole number fully displayed…4,200,000,000. People might be upset if they SAW what was being spent by the government. BTW, when was the last time your saw the total spending in Iraq and Afghanistan?

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