More of your Tax Dollars at Work "Hope and Change" (NAFTA, drug)

[Soccersupporter]

WASHINGTON – A sleepy Montana checkpoint along the Canadian border that sees about three travelers a day will get $15 million under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan. A government priority list ranked the project as marginal, but two powerful Democratic senators persuaded the administration to make it happen.

Despite Obama's promises that the stimulus plan would be transparent and free of politics, the government is handing out $720 million for border upgrades under a process that is both secretive and susceptible to political influence. This allowed low-priority projects such as the checkpoint in Whitetail, Mont., to skip ahead of more pressing concerns, according to documents revealed to The Associated Press.

AP IMPACT: Secret process benefits pet projects - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090826/ap_on_go_co/us_stimulus_border_crossings - broken link)

[RobertGibbs]

he's softening up the boarder just a bit more up there. There's going to be a lot of holes for his buddies, I mean al qaeda, to sneak in.

[Compression]

Don't kid yourself. There's a reason for this. It will only become apparent as time goes on. Wonder if it has anything to do with the "proposed" Nafta super highway.....

[RobertGibbs]

Originally Posted by yachtcare

Don't kid yourself. There's a reason for this. It will only become apparent as time goes on. Wonder if it has anything to do with the "proposed" Nafta super highway.....

oh yummy, more drug traffickers and gangs! If that's the case, we'll be busy up there.