The cost of the border fence.
With President Bush signing into law today the authorization for the 700-mile fence along the border, there's some disagreement among Republicans in Congress over just how much it's going to cost. The House Appropriations Committee, whose responsibility it is to count and (especially) spend money, estimates that the fence will cost in the neighborhood of $9 million a mile, which would put the total cost of the barrier at $6.3 billion. They base their estimate on what it had cost to build the existing fence near San Diego.
If you were trying to cross the fence what would you do? Can you say bungee jumping! Yeah folks thats right!
Build a 50 foot wall… and they’ll bungee-jump
And that my friends is how your hard earned taxes are being spent. What will they think of next?
