Why don't we just hire more Border Agents to patrol the Mexican border?

[KittyWampus]

why use National Guard?

Isn't this mind-numbingly simple?

[crikkett]

1. they're only gonna post soldiers until we can hire/train our own guards

said the Pentagon Spokesman yesterday. Just like Iraq.

[woodsprite]

2. Yes, but it doesn't achieve the hidden agenda and that's to get

our local soldiers out from individual governor control and under chimpy's control. Especially since some cities in some states are bringing up impeachment.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Cause Bush doesn't want to pay for it

Passing the buck to the states

[mmonk]

4. Not militarized enough

for a newly radical nation.

[Minnesota Libra]

5. I am convinced that using the National Guard is merely a start............

....toward "Brown Shirts" in every city in American. Think about it, once the National Guard is deployed, and people get used to seeing them out and about, wouldn't it be easier then to deploy the Guard elsewhere??

[genie_weenie]

10. Yikes!

Hell, you might even be asked to take a few in for a night or 2 as part of your civic duty, unless of course you have something to hide or hate america...


:tinfoilhat:

[Warpy]

6. INS agents cost money and require training

Using the National Guard guys means using guys who have already pledged those weekends and summer months, the cost doesn't go up.

Personally, I'd just prefer we hire more INS agents. Maybe we could pay for it by admitting Stupid's Star Wars system doesn't work and halting its deployment.

Shoot, there would be enough money left over from that one to insure half the uninsured in this country.

[KittyWampus]

8. So we can attack Bush for being CHEAP ON NATIONAL SECURITY?

[Warpy]

11. Yes. Lots of windowdressing and misallocated resources

along with unspent billions on programs that actually do something while reliably red states in the heartland with a minute chance of being targets are lavished with funds, this is what the team of crooks and liars is doing.

Misusing the Guard is just their latest scam.

[itzamirakul]

7. Probably because the government would end up hiring illegals to do

the job. To save money on salaries, of course.(sarcasm intended)

[Botany]

9. Why don't we do it on the cheap?

And just hire undocumented Mexicans to patrol the border.

Nothing but upsides to this idea.

* Work Cheap
* No need for benefits
* Speak Spanish
* Know the border region

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

12. I think this a ploy to deflect from the NSA data mining. It seems that

the NSA took backburner once it was announced that the shrub was going to give a major speech on immigration. After the speech was announced, CNN started to run ads on the speech as if it was going to be the next best thing to white bread.

:puke:

[JuniperLea]

14. Yep! They are playing emotional warfare

Pressing all the buttons on the divide and conquer keyboard...

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

15. And those buttons and keyboards have Rovian fingerprints! :)

[Jeffersons Ghost]

13. because your logical idea does not allow a BUSH TO THE RESCUE SCENARIO