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Here's a concern I don't hear expressed much in all the reporting: The enormous expense in all this. The expense of changes without demonstrable nor explained
by pasbesoin 10y ago
Here's a concern I don't hear expressed much in all the reporting: The enormous expense in all this.
The expense of changes without demonstrable nor explained benefit.
The expense of all the CBP officers spending all this time and energy screening and rejecting entrants who manifest NO demonstrable security risk nor connections to persons and organizations of real concern.
People ARE talking about Trump spending millions every weekend to go down to Florida. Itself, as I see it, an egocentric, inconsiderate act of self-indulgence. All the more so in the face of his campaign rhetoric.
I guess I could also mention the outsided security expenditures for Trump Tower.
And here we have the Administration and CBP spending enormous amounts of time and money on a policy that as yet has no direct, rational explanation.
It may and probably does have explanation in domestic and international political posturing and manouvering -- one of debatable merit. Effect and merit that SHOULD be better identified, reported, analyzed, and discussed.
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE COST OF ALL THIS???!!!
Once again, "the Right" complains while vastly increasing what they complain about.
We'll end up needing another Obama to hopefully clean this up -- or, as to some extent in his case, simply to balance the books.
P.S. Today's reporting features a natural Canadian citizen (born and raised there) of Asian heritage that gives her darker skin, being stopped by CBP at the start of a day trip to Vermont, interviewed, and ultimately turned back and told she will have to apply for a visa.
Ok, I'm for cost-effective government. What was the bill for this? I'm not particularly in favor of paying for this entirely ineffective action -- on the face of it, entirely unnecessary.
Is THIS why I have to give up my ACA health insurance policy? (No subsidy for me, by the way; just, FINALLY, a mandate that allows this older, independent worker to purchase a health insurance policy. Along with laws, such as "no pre-existing conditions", that level the playing field for me vis a vis corporate workers with employer-provided insurance.)
I'm following the money, and it smells.