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What If, America?by Jon Justice What if America took the tax rebate stimulus money and used it to secure the U.S. - Mexican border? How much will you pledge to secure our US - Mexico Border? This started on January 24th, 2008 while I was printing the story of President Bush and Congress agreeing on a stimulus package. Being married with two boys I could certainly use the $1800.00 that I will be getting this summer. But then I thought, "What if?" What if enough people decided to pledge some (if not all) their Tax Rebate money to secure the US - Mexico Border? What if we sent a message back to our government that said "Since you failed to secure our border, we will do it for you?" It would take a one-time cost of roughly 3 billion dollars to put the entire fence up. Our government is going to hand the taxpayers 150 Billion! A fraction of that could save us billions in Illegal Immigration costs for years to come. Now how do we do it? Plans are currently being drafted by non-profit non-government organizations on ideas of various ways we could secure our nation's US - Mexico Border given the right funding. With this kind of money we have lots of options. Groups like the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps have already done tremendous work making our nation safer. We could create jobs for people to go and secure our border, put up fencing, vehicle barricades, manpower etc. Why use this money to buy products from overseas, when we could create jobs and secure the country at the same time? If enough people pledged enough money, what would our own government do? What would the candidates do? If the people of America took the border security in their own hands the problem could no longer be ignored. One major point of concern is the obvious "How do we avoid any fraud'? I believe that the only way is to create a plan for complete transparency. Setting up a single fund for the money to be placed. Then we will present a plan showing exactly what and where the money will go to those who have made the pledge. At this point the door is open for ideas. How much would you pledge of your government tax rebate to secure the US Mexico Border? This is only a pledge to help, nothing more, nothing binding. Email It starts with the actions of very few to make a difference. This is what made our country great. The government is ready to send the people of America a one hundred fifty billion dollar blank check. What if the people of these United States used that money to take the country back!? Copy and send this link to as many people as you can: www.WhatIfAmerica.com Spread the word! Expanding the approved 370 miles of border fence by 1,630 miles at a cost of $2.5 billion would seal the border completely for a one-time cost. Total fencing 1969 miles. All information below are estimates based off of the 2006 US census and various other sources. The one time cost total would be between 2.5 and 3 billion to build the whole fence. This would be 1969 miles of fence at a cost of 1.5 million per mile. There are 131 million taxpayers who will receive money from Government this year in rebates; that equals 150 billion. Total cost for each taxpayer for a one time cost to build fence: $22.00. (Yes, only 20 bucks!) Polls show 70% of American public want to see our border secure; that means 92 million people want the border fence. Total cost per person for the 92 million who want the fence: $32.00. 5.5 million AZ taxpayers. Total cost for entire U.S. fence per AZ taxpayer $571.00. Total AZ Mexico border miles= 389. Total cost per AZ tax payer to put up 389 miles of AZ mexico fence =$105.00. Total cost per year for tax payers in Arizona because of Illegal Immigrants 1.3 Billion. Jon Justice is a morning radio talk show host for 104.1 FM The Truth in Tucson, Arizona. Related Links: |
