How our Government can put 17,000 folks to work today and have someone else pick up the tab.

Seems the U.S. is more concerned with protecting the shores from an oil spill rather than protecting our borders. Don’t get me wrong; both are serious conditions needing to be addressed.
There are 17,000 U.S. troops involved with helping protect the beaches due to the massive oil leak currently taking place off the coast of Louisiana. The Feds are not too concerned about the cost because eventually BP will be picking up the tab. Why not hire that many unemployed folks who desperately need the money and put them to work in place of our troops? I’m sure their experience level in this type of situation matches the militaries. I don’t seem to remember oil clean up being part of my curriculum when I went through Army basic training. Lets then send those US troops over to help control the border situation in AZ. This entire BS about the cost to do this (estimated at 225 million dollars) seems kind of miniscule considering OUR Government spend billions of dollars bailing out mismanaged banks and fat-cat Wall Street investors. And don’t our troops get paid regardless of what type of job they do? Politicians should use their heads for more things than looking into other orifices of their bodies.