document.write('<div id="pan_container"><div id="pan_header"><div id="pan_stationAsksImage"></div><div class="pan_pad"><div id="pan_tq"><div id="pan_content_title">Do you approve of the plans for a 700-mile fence along the border with Mexico? </div><div id="pan_content_question"></div><a id="pan_replyImage" href=\'http://action.publicbroadcasting.net/theworld/posts/list/748412.page\' ></a></div></div></div><div id="pan_messages"><div id="pan_commentsTitle"></div><div class="pan_messageContainer"><div  class="pan_messageStats"><div class="pan_pad"><span>Re: Do you approve of the plans for a 700-mile fence along the border with Mexico? </span> Added: 05/06/2008 11:34:22 PM</div></div><div class="pan_messageBody"><div class="pan_pad">But surely the border needs to be controlled and regulated.  That\'s what the role of the federal government, at least a big part of it\'s role.  We don\'t have government to provide us with healthcare, to provide us with education, to put food in our mouths, or to give us jobs.  The government\'s role is to provide the infrastructure to allow those activities to occur.  Infrastructure includes such things as printing a common currency and establishing a banking system; providing a court system where citizens can resolve disputes; there is also police and prisons to maintain law and order; a standing army for the common defense; etc. <br/>  <br/> I guess the way I feel is that you can\'t have a peaceful, prosperous, safe, and stabile society if you are constantly being invaded by foreign powers.  Stop the bleeding.  Apply direct pressure, and apply a  tourniquet if necessary.  It\'s simply a question of survival.  Do we want to survive as a nation or perish?  That\'s what this debate boils down to.    </div></div></div><div class="pan_messageContainer"><div  class="pan_messageStats"><div class="pan_pad"><span>Re: Do you approve of the plans for a 700-mile fence along the border with Mexico? </span> Added: 05/05/2008 10:33:17 PM</div></div><div class="pan_messageBody"><div class="pan_pad">   Living within 25 air miles of the Mexican border makes me wonder why is my government spending so much of our tax dollars on this project.  The "fence", a Southern "Berlin Wall" from a past century, is a waste of funds. America\'s aging infrastructure needs those funds, our soldiers at war need those funds... (like the debate about "suspending" the Federal gas tax, rebuild the infrastructure!) <br/>   We, as a society, need to agree to support our neighbors to the South.  The "war on drugs" has failed. "Supply and Demand" will drive the drugs and illegals North.  The money is simply too massive.  As long as someone (us) wants cheap food, cheap labor, cheap gas.... (sure I don\'t consider $3.50/gallon as cheap) Don\'t get me started on using "food" crops for "bio-fuel". <br/>   Yes, the Mexican Wall is only part of a much more complex problem.  Special interest groups... heck, your, my Congressman(woman) is he/her own special interest group!  The Bush43 loose interpretation of the Constitution... Money talks and bulls*** gets reelected. (Sorry for the rant... if I post another reply, I\'ll try to stay on topic.)</div></div></div><div class="pan_messageContainer"><div  class="pan_messageStats"><div class="pan_pad"><span>Re: Do you approve of the plans for a 700-mile fence along the border with Mexico? </span> Added: 05/01/2008 8:59:21 PM</div></div><div class="pan_messageBody"><div class="pan_pad">Absolutely not.  The world is not meant to be fenced, walled or barbed wired.  We are all one.</div></div></div></div></div>');