Some Quick Numbers
Friday, April 14, 2006
Keywords: Politics
It's interesting to read that the House immigration bill calls for a 698-mile long fence that comes with a price tag of $2 billion. Do the math, and that's well over $500 per foot.
For contrast, the plans that Panama recently put forth for the widening of the Panama Canal (no small task, considering that the original canal took decades to construct) comes in at only $5 billion.
Of course, in the greater scheme of things, $2 billion is but a drop in the bucket considering the size of the federal budget and the GDP of the country, but when you get enough of these little things, they add up...
