$158,000 per arrest

My comment is about the article called $ 158,000 Per Arrest. In 2006 Governor Perry put in action his idea about the Texas border control by the use of cameras around the border between United States and Mexico; this idea was propose when elections were around the corner to get a new Governor. The idea of having cameras around the border to capture illegals, counterfeit money and drugs: it was not a bad idea if we think that the border patrol police will have an idea how many people are there and to avoid casualties in the police side.
The idea of having cameras will help police to find the people who are left behind by the “coyotes” to die in the desert, they will save lives. But like any idea or theory we will always find flaws; in this case allowing people to have access to the cameras and see the same thing police sees. How the police knows that the people who are watching are not people who is part of the Cartels. This is a big help for those who move drugs and people across the border because they know and they see everything that happens in the border.
The governor Perry propose this idea with the goal of “expected to generate 1,200 arrests, $25,000 in cash forfeitures, 50,000 incident reports and 4,500 immigration referrals” by so far we had 26 arrests at a value of 158,000 dollars per arrest. This project started with 2 million dollars and now the Governor had expended 4 millions and another 2 millions in 2009. The used of this money is to implement more cameras to protect the border, but how about spending less money in cameras and more in to hired man power to protect the border.
The idea in theory is good, put the actual action of the plan could be provide a different outcome of the expected; in this case the use of money into a program that has not provide its goal but just a small percentage. The money expended buying more cameras could have been used towards education or some other programs our state is in needs.

Comment about How long the Elephant gets loose?

I chose the comment from Big Texas Rules about How long before the Elephant gets loose? Everybody has the right to express their opinions and believes, but they do not have the right to use force to make people follow your believes or ideas; there are always a person who will try to make statements by using scandals like “Joey” is doing. We as a democratic society had the ability to choose and to pick what we want. So people will choose to have an abortion because they said that it is their body so they can do whatever they want with it. Abortion is a controversial topic because some of the reason to be against are religion, moral, believes, science, etc. Government does not want to have an opinion about it because they will have to use one really strong reason to make abortion illegal. This means they will have to pick a side and make a strong impression in the public to make they understand that they are watching for their interest. But these days we are always going to find a group of people who are not agree with making Abortion illegal, and they are going to complaint and show the entire nation that the government is violating one of their right. I am against abortion because my religion said is wrong, but I also see the science behind the process of conception with for me is the reason I thing abortion is a violation of the baby’s rights to live.

Census is the answer for the prays of How to get the government to allocate money to the states

The actual purpose for the CENSUS is to obtain an accurate count of the habitants in each city, county, town, and state. These numbers will allow the National Government to allocate money to each State, so they use for the needs of the population.
Some of the needs will be construction of highways, schools, improvements in the medical care, school care, etc. Of course the money will be proportional to the population count. The idea is pretty good if we can considerer that the money will be equally distribute among the state’s population so the needs will be fulfill.
I think the census is in idea the greatest idea especially if our state government will provided the right services to the community. This year we have a census and according to the count the Travis county responses are behind the national average. One of the many reason is believe that people was waiting until April 1, 2010 to submit their envelopes instead of mail them right away. Another reason is that Austin is in majority populated by students who do not live all year but only during Spring and Fall to attend the different Universities located at Austin.
If the Texas cannot provide an accurate number of habitants the State will not get the money need it to fulfill the services in Texas but government will probably will have to rearrange the way money is spend , so it can be use successfully. Hopefully Texas will get enough money to fix the streets and finish up with the highways, to improve school education and created a better plan of how to deal with children who speak different languages; or to do something about the homeless people begging for money in the different intersection in Austin, etc.