Let’s all stand up for what we really want. Let’s allow amnesty for Americans that owe back taxes and our children who need a college education. What are my taxes going for? I want to know exactly where they are going since this is robbing my family and my friends to take care of people who have NEVER PAID TAXES, EVER.

I have paid taxes since I worked part-time in 1972, and my parents paid taxes to support America since the 1930’s. Let’s get this straight. Why does my father have to account yearly for every dollar he makes still, even though he is in a nursing home?

I am confused by our law makers intentions.

So far as present needs go, Anchorage, Juneau, or Ketchikan would make better sense, in that order, and the benefits are too far in the future to make sense in the election cycle, so it’s probably payoff pork.

Stevens is an idiot. He has gotten his own way for so long that he cannot accept that he can no longer control the information flow. Murkowski might survive this, Stevens will not.

Funny that office is going to Fairbanks instead of being near the Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchortown.

I flew into the Fairbanks Airport in the summer of ‘88 and I simply could not remember that it was much bigger than a runway and the office. According to the Fairbanks CVB site, the international airport is getting upgraded. Including:

“Increase from 5 to 6 gates”

maybe they are worried about alien workers at the North Slope?

The US Attorney’s Office in St. George, Utah, which is supposed to prosecute immigration cases … is 301 miles from the nearest federal district court (in Salt Lake City). It’s gonna be a long commute for any prosecutor. St. George is a tiny, tiny town out in the middle of noplace. Creating a prosecutor’s office that is 300 miles from the courtroom is a pretty obvious boondoggle.

Look at the bright side: they are not voting to cut war funding in return for peanuts. As they have done in June.

But Fairbanks? The suggestion that the city is in the middle of the state doesn’t do justice to the problem, unless you take into account that this isn’t just any state, and the land around it isn’t settled at the same level as, for example, New England. What we are talking about is a fairly small city (ok, probably bigger than St. George) many hundreds of miles from the ocean surrounded by millions of acres of land that is effectively uninhabited by humans.