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15 November 2016, 19:13,
#31
RE: USA
Some of the wall has always been a fence. It is chain link, 20 feet tall and topped with barbed wire with motion sensors and cameras and patrolled by men, dogs and drones. No one here ever expected the "wall" to be a brick and mortar structure.

It will probably also not be a solid unit, but sections covering the easiest access points and channeling smugglers and border crashers to points where successful crossing is impossible.

As for the health care, it is not like your NHS in any shape or form and is a bit difficult to comprehend.

The Obamacare that will remain is the provision for covering preexisting illness, which is part of most good insurance plans over here, and the provision for adult children to remain on the parents plan until age 24 if they are still in school, which is also part of most good plans.

This is backpedaling to what we had before Obamacare.

The really objectionable part of Obamacare is not just the horrid insurance but the forced purchase of insurance at whatever price the provider declares. The government has forced most of the providers out of the market by not paying the promised subsidies, so many people have only one provider to choose from. This year most of the rates from those limited providers went up by %400. I have friends that have insurance premiums that are more than their incomes, and they are not "poor" people. This is for a 80/20 plan with $10k deductible, which is actually no insurance.

They face a government fine for not having the insurance, which means that Obama does not care if you have insurance, or anything about your health care, as long as the government can collect its fines, which are the only alternative when insurance is more than income.

Since these fines are collected by the IRS, our tax agency, this makes Obamacare the largest tax scam in history.
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15 November 2016, 19:28,
#32
RE: USA
I am well acquainted with some people at Raytheon who produce battlefield sensors being used along the Afghanistan border with Pakistan. What can be said is that you don't need observers on the ground. Devices disguised as common rocks or cattle dung can be distributed by air, scattered over a wide area and will blend in with the surroundings. A few might be discovered, but even in a dedicated ground search you would not find them all. I cannot describe how they work or their capabilities, but suffice to say battlefield commanders can have in real time an accurate assessment of activity in the covered area, whether it is human foot traffic, animals on the hoof, mechanised vehicles, etc. It is then easy to direct a Raptor drone to investigate further and respond as needed.

The "Virtual Fence" beats a wall.

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15 November 2016, 19:31,
#33
RE: USA
Areas in which you have a "fence" which may appear as weak weak spot, versus a heavily fortified wall like the old Cold War inter-German border, simply directs the people you want to monitor into the area which is equipped to do so. A smoke screen.

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15 November 2016, 19:34,
#34
RE: USA
Related: http://www.nextgov.com/defense/2014/07/S...est/89705/

Raytheon wants it to be "theirs"

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