"gonna waste the hell" billions on "border security" (south end only)

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Remember the cash we literally drowned Iraq and Afghanistan with, the football games with bricks of cash? Ever since the Wrong War our JohnWAYNEism has been a constant Wingnut talking demand for the (Southern only) border: Fence, horses, SUVs, dune buggies, river boats, all kinds of electronic gizmos, drones, palatial headquarters, and boots boots boots. All national policy held hostage to: "SECURE THE BORDER FIRST!1"

Why is it that cable comedians and a gossip site like Gawker discuss actually important topics?!1

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http://gawker.com/america-is-ready-to-waste-so-much-money-on-border-secur-1548291418
[font size=5]America Is Ready to Waste So Much Money on Border Security[/font]

Hamilton Nolan

The U.S. Customs department spends several hundred million dollars on border security for our 2,000-mile border with Mexico. Congress may soon increase that amount by many billions of dollars. One thing we know for sure: we are gonna waste the hell out of that money.

I mean, the border is two thousand miles long. Whether you spend a half a billion dollars or tens of billions of dollars, there will still be lots of holes in that border. Walls are expensive! Assuming all of that money won't be spent on highly trained racist dogs, what will it be spent on? The LA Times went to the "Border Security Expo" to find out:



"Gregory Schultz, who co-owns a Tucson-based business that manufactures clothing that stops electricity from penetrating a body, said his product, Thorshield, could help save border agents at risk of having their stun guns seized by assailants and used against them.

"Schultz covered his hand in the cotton-like material, took up a stun gun and fired repeatedly.

" 'It's a highly conductive fabric that actually short-circuits stun guns and Tasers,' he said without blinking."



It is high time a patriotic entrepreneur solved the problem of U.S. border patrol agents being tased by crafty (and quick-fingered) Mexicans who snatched their stun guns. We'll take $40 billion worth, please.

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1. And how long will it take for Mexican

drug runners and coyotes to get hold of the super fabric that short-circuits stun guns? My guess is less than a month.

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2. Or intrepid thrill seekers over here playing games with local cops. Hey, many practical innovations

derive from scientific initiatives like NASA or, yes, wars. The Mexicans have said for more than 50 yrs, "If Americans didn't demand drugs, Mexico wouldn't supply them." It's a concept called Supply and Demand. If the cash spent on the "War on Drugs" were spent on education, social services, rehabilitation or dare we say spiritual enlightenment, there wouldn't be rich drug cartels.

An indigenous Mexican told an American hippie in the '70s that pot was not to be misused for "fun," that it is for "when a man breaks a limb, when a woman is giving birth" - a PAIN KILLER.