The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee is having an open public hearing today hosted by the University of Texas, El Paso titled "U.S.-Mexico Border Violence." Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., the chairman of the committee, is presiding over the hearing that will include several other U.S. senators and Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas.
The above conference is being text streamed 'live' via computer. Dada wishes to note, the statement....
"President Barack Obama plans to redeploy more than 200 million federal agents to border posts and the Mexican interior and redirect $500 to combat smuggling of illegal drugs, money and weapons,"
was incorrect and has since been amended to read,
"President Barack Obama plans to redeploy more than 500 federal agents to border posts and the Mexican interior and redirect $200 million to combat smuggling of illegal drugs, money and weapons."
(With apologies to any and all citizens locally or nationally for concern or panic the original mis-transcribed text may have caused, even though it sounded reasonable to Dada.)
1 comment:
How careless or me! Of course, for a bankrupt U.S. to throw hundreds of millions, billions or trillions even at a problem is as easy as throwing mud at a pig. Mud is plentiful - and as worthless - a U.S. dollars, i.e., it's cheap to be exuberant with worthlessness!
One serious point, however: It was nice to hear Kerry say he learned from this trip that the violence is NOT spilling over the border, so spare us the call up of the Reserves, the National Guard and Marines. Send 'em to Afghanistan where they can save our asses from Al Qaeda! OK, laters, back to blowin' weed.
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