Just Being In Washington Doesn't Give Them The Answers.

       If you step back and listen and watch, you get some insights into the needs of America. Take two departments of our government. The military and Border security. We've about cleaned up the second of two wars we've been fighting for a decade or more. That means, or should mean we can let about a hundred thousand troops go. Keep them on active reserve status if you want, but we don't need them for active war at this point in time.
       On the other hand, we keep hearing how we need more border protection and enforcement. Hey, are you listening to this back-and-forth chatter coming from Washington? We've got a hundred thousand people ready for work. They've already got uniforms, the Army has extra guns for them. Why not take about twenty five thousand, give them the needed training and put them along our borders and at our sea ports. That would give us about five thousand along both borders and all three coastlines. That would go a long way to making us more secure.
        But does Washington listen to us? I mean we listen to them, how is it that they only listen to us if we have lots of money to donate to their reelection campaigns. I understand it would be a difficult trick to get Defense to transfer the money it takes them to keep twenty five thousand soldiers, to border security. Not to mention how difficult it would be for border security to figure out what to do with that money and all those extra people, but hey, figure it out folks.
       Another advantage to this idea is that those twenty five thousand jobs would be permanent jobs, not the temporary combat jobs these folks are doing now. Of course there are those who believe we need to keep all the military we have now and then some. But then, we spend more than the next sixteen or seventeen countries combined. Washington needs to know that we won't be fighting sixteen or seventeen countries at the same time any time soon. So let's think about lightening up, whatta ya say?