Never let it be said that the government can’t come up with new and clever ways to waste time, money and resources.

Today, President Bush signed into law the Secure Fence Act of 2006. This bill authorizes construction of 700 miles of fencing along the US-Mexican border. 700 miles of fencing along a border that is over 2000 miles long? What sense does that make, or perhaps it’s a byproduct of the poor math education today’s public school students receive.

This strategy makes about as much sense as France’s reliance on the Maginot Line in the opening days of WWII. If the mathematical miscalculation wasn't foolish enough, the fact that the Secure Fence Act of 2006 provides no funding construct this fence, is truly the pinnacle of stupidity, Presumably locals will give from their own pockets to build the fence, maybe if they are lucky, Uncle Sam will at least provide some of the supplies…maybe a couple of hammers or a nail or two...

This meaningless symbolic piece of legislation will do little if any to secure our porous border with Mexico and any constituent who is fooled by this smokescreen surely deserves the representatives they have in Congress.

In spite of its uselessness, the border fence is not without its critics, principally leftists who rely on a steady stream of low-income workers to placate in order to maintain voting strength in their constituencies.

Then there’s the Mexican government, which likens the fence to the Berlin Wall, while ignoring their own militarized border with Guatemala. Given the track record of this smokescreen obsessed Congress it should come as no surprise that the crowning achievement of this legislative session is a fence that keeps no one out, with no money to be built and only 1300 miles too short.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-10-26-bush-immigration_x.htm