Gene Kearns wrote:
No matter what side of the aisle you sit on, this is just nuts!

And particularly affects:
New York
New Jersey
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Baltimore, Maryland
Miami, Florida
New Orleans, Louisiana

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,185479,00.html
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1644106
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/...ity/index.html
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3652381.html

If there is any REAL concern with security, why is this being bid to
any NON American firm? This is just plain nuts!

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The Bush family has a long history of being extremely, (and extremely
profitably) involved
in financial dealings with powerful mideastern and Arab interests.
GWB's first partner when he entered the oil drilling business was Salim
Ben Ladin, Osama's brother. There's probably some private family-
business reason for turning port security over to an Arab firm. This is
one of those changes that will come about by Executive fiat, should it
materialize, as most Democrats in congress oppose it and even many of
the Republicans normally delighted to toe the Administration's line are
courageously speaking out against this ludicrous proposal.

I understand that we can actually consider firing all the TSA employees
who work airport security. It will save the country billions of dollars
per year, as it is rumored that a group of folks currently living in
caves along the Afghanistan/ Pakistan border are willing to do the job
for less than minimum wage. Further rumors suggest that a (totally
unrelated, of course) lecture tour for the immediately retired
President Bush will then be arranged to begin in 2009; $1mm per
appearance at a long series of middle eastern universities.

Think of the money we could save if we turned the security of our
southern borders over to undocumented "guest workers", it would get rid
of thousands of border patrol people currently sucking the govt. teat
for an acutal living wage. The $billion or so in savings could be used
to justify another several billion in tax cuts for the folks in the
very highest income brackets.

If we really want to save some dough, we could disband most of our
armed forces. There are some pretty bold mercenaries available right
now, and we could save the taxpayers
countless dollars if we simply took some of the 40% (or whatever)
unemployed in Iraq and put them in charge of our weapons and defense
systems. They would probably work for $1 a day........heck, a lot of
them would gladly *pay* for the privilege.

The cheapest labor to guard the henhouse will almost always turn out to
be.......the fox.
(And I don't mean the so-called news network)