text: why is 6000 the pie in the sky number for the need of national guard troops 50000 better? sounds like a band aid and we pay and pay nothing changes just another way to get more money for the border control money they allready spent i am furious with bush on this one.  i typically support him as at least being sincere, but this is not only insincere, it insults our intelligence.  as an article i read pointed out, the only way additional border patrols would substantially slow illegal immigration by itself is if there were sufficient patrols to do 'hands across america' along our southern border.  the senate had already put the $1.9 billion for border security into an appropriations bill, and bush is saying it should be spent on something we all know will be a band-aid.  initially, when i thought he was going to get additional funding above that already voted for, i was ok with this as a stop gap measure while more permanent solutions are put in place.  i am not ok with it as a stop-gap measure that will be expensive to implement, drain our border security budget, and leave nothing to show for it when the troops are ultimately removed. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/18/ar2006051801774.html