Misplaced priorities

Barack Obama’s $3.8 trillion 2010 budget created immediate sticker shock this week with an estimated $1.56 trillion record deficit – breaking his own record $1.4 trillion deficit from 2009. But, there’s a lot more to leave you scratching your head wondering what the priorities of this administration really are.

For example, Obama’s budget takes an ax to border security by reducing the number of agents, eliminating five of thirteen Maritime Security and Safety Teams that guard our biggest harbor cities, cutting $225 million from the “virtual fence” effort that utilizes cameras and sensors to detect border crossings, and freezes any further expansion of the concrete-and-steel border fence. At the same time, there’s $200 million set aside to provide for security surrounding as yet unscheduled trials in civilian court in a still undisclosed location.

Apparently, the Obama administration favors spending hundreds of millions of dollars to assure captured terrorists have all the rights and privileges of American civilians in our courts while reducing barriers for other would-be terrorists to slip across our borders on their way to their identified target. Go figure!