Thank you mr hiraid. In the original posting, there was an announcement of a joke, at first. Then within, opinionated said, *to paraphrase. why not. What might be the down side to this idea. You are astute in pointing out there are many actually. I myself would like to see so much more done to eradicate this massive drag on our economy,education, medical, welfare, jobs, and the list goes on and on. To those others who preferred to make relatively pointless issues out of this very serious and important thread, too bad the point was missed over a few petty notions perhaps just to redirect? Who cares actually, but as mr hiroad went the extra mile to point out, there are good ideas and bad ideas. I feel this whole, buy their way in, sounds good but just as george bush said as well as others, it's just too damn costly to keep shippen em over the border time and time again, only to have them return sooner or later along with more family and friends. A path to citizenship, guest workers etc. Nedl, you too are right in my eyes. They just seem to be finding the holes they need to get back across. What a lousy job being a border officer must be. Ron paul said we need guns on our border fences, but those fences need a better leader. To those overly worried about spelling anf grammmmer within many of these postings, yupper! I let one get past, that had I reread my reply, would have caught it. Embarrassed and red as a delicious apple, but no apology for those other little tripped over keys and folksy thangs we ofttimes drop here and there. As for mallory, perhaps she has some sense of the things some don't regarding the actual question put forth. I saw it, but within that reply of her's, there was nothing else to comment upon but the math. Stoooooopidity? I really don't see how that made it into the threads in the first place. And perhaps even uncalled for, it were. The costs of war as part of the debt that the idea might help relieve? well to her I say yup, there's that too. But there is that which hiraod wrote too. He did indeed recall, that back in the day, these illegals were not so coddled and surely they would have had to work so much harder to return here. But to that, what would it cost. As I said, they would likely find the dough to buy into the good ole USA. That's why I suggested if feasible, 15,000 or more hell why not 50,000. Ya see the point now curious and liberal and whom ever else? It won't matter, they'll still get here as they always have, and risk it either way. To those who truly want to be here legally? Well that small number might well pay even if it cost 50,000.
