Its Metrics, Not Hot Air That Counts
The American people have let the President and Congress get away with hot air and not substantiable metrics.For example we have seen President Bush at the Border many times saying lately that he is for a secure border. He has mobilized the National Guard to assist the Border Patrol and he has increased the number of additional border patrol officers. He has stated that technology will also be added to help guard the border such as unmanned TV planes, motion detectors, and some fence.
What are the metrics for guarding the border? Today we have between one and three million illegal aliens crossing over into America and we are capturing and returning a million other illegal aliens each year. Metrics puts a number on how effective we are today, maybe 20% effective, and can estimate how much more effective additional Border patrol Agents, the National Guard, and technology will be, maybe 25% effective? America want the Mexican border to be 99% secure and I am sure the President and Congress know what that will take to get it done. Right now it is all hot air and I don't expect to see a quantifiable secure border with Bush and the current Congress in office.
The president and senate are also talking about a guest worker bio card, which is more hot air. Some number will need to be processed like 10 million aliens. They do not know if the technology is available to do what they are talking about. It would probably take up to 10,000 workers to process the current 10 million aliens within a two or three year time span. They are already talking about giving it out as a contract, maybe Haliburton will want it. Before they get started they will need a big computer system to process and store all of the information which may take at least 2 or 3 years to accomplish. There is really no metrics from the government. If it ever gets off of the ground, it will take a decade to get it going.
Another example is hurricane savaged New Orleans. It is in no better shape today than it was before last years hurricane season. We saw a lot a Presidential face time on camera, but the city infrastructure has not been upgraded to handle an additional hurricane category. More hot air. New Orleans is ripe for more severe devastation if another powerful hurricane swings by this year.
The current administration's policies are more hot air in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are three levels of effort in almost any major endeavor: operational, tactical, and strategic efforts. We must always provide maximum support to our military, especially those in harms way. There are too many bomb injuries to American soldiers and civilians at the operational level. The American people need to know what the efforts are to accomplish the tactical and strategic objectives. Right now it is all hot air and smoke. All we see are killings and sever injuries. What are the tactical and strategic missions and how are they being accomplished? Hopefully we can leave Iraq and Afghanistan better places than when we arrived there and that the populations can survive the future in peace and some prosperity. Right now the metrics that we see indicate we are failing.
These are several examples of hot air, lip service, or one might say it is just plain "bull". Everyone with a radio or TV hears the mantras that we are going to save New Orleans, we are going to protect our borders, we are going to have a guest worker bio card, we are going to win in Iraq and Afghanistan, but what is really being accomplished? The American people need more than promises that go unfilled. The American citizens require substance rather than photo opportunities. They need the efforts accomplished successfully, not poorly accomplished. Not much has been done substantially.
What do you think about these issues? Have you written your representatives lately? Do you think that the press or public television has covered this subject matter adequately? Do you think the president and congress have done a good job? Do they represent your ideas or are they following and working an elitist agenda?
What do you think?
posted by God Bless America - Bob @ 9:27 PM
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