Bush requests 1 Iraq/weeks worth of money To Bolster Borders.

I just like converting all of Bush's proposals into it's equavlance in the cost of occupying Iraq. We're supposedly running at eight or nine bil a month, according to Murtha. Make's it real easy to see where Bush's priorties lie, doesn't it, Mr. republican conservative voter?

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/3872485.html
Bush Requests $1.9B to Bolster Borders


By SUZANNE GAMBOA Associated Press Writer
© 2006 The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Bush sent Congress a $1.9 billion request Thursday to increase border security as supporters of sweeping immigration legislation reasserted control in Senate debate.

The White House said the money would pay for the "first 1,000 of 6,000 new Border Patrol agents that will be deployed in the next two years," as well as the temporary deployment of up to 6,000 National Guard troops to states along the Mexican border. The request includes funds for new fencing and other barriers as well as two new unmanned surveillance aircraft and five helicopters to curb illegal immigration.

Bush avoided beefing up the civilian human border patrol, preferring to use the cheap, forced labor of the Nat Guard combined with huge building projects. It's all crafted to move max money out of government operations to the military industrial complex.

I can see what's coming because Bush sees gov function as two things, military and writing checks to contractors. That's it.