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    $100s of Millions to Montana for Border Security, TX Gets $0

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    'GMA' Investigation: Stimulus Waste or Future Investment?
    Some Enraged as Montana Outpost With Little Cross-Border Traffic Gets $15M in Federal Stimulus Money
    By JONATHAN KARL
    May 15, 2009

    Few places in America are more desolate than Whitetail, Mont., a place where the roads are more likely to be mowed than paved. A border post with Canada located there sees an average of less than two passenger cars per day and only two to three trucks a month, according to the Bureau of Transportation statistics.

    But one project in this tiny outpost is about to get a big-city upgrade.

    The building that houses the border patrol is receiving $15 million from federal stimulus funds. And it's not just Whitetail. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) is getting $420 million in stimulus funds to upgrade small border crossings, almost all of them along the Canadian border. Many of them don't have much more traffic than the border post at Whitetail. [Full Article]
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    Re: $100s of Millions to Montana for Border Security, TX Gets $0

    You know those pesky Canadians, never know when they'll want to rumble...

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    It's true. You never know when the Hanson Brothers are gonna come down here and raise havoc.
    Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem.
    All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control.
    I trust you are not in too much distress. —Captain Eric Moody, British Airways Flight 9

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