Posted on 12/24/2018 6:24:08 AM PST by Kaslin
For the past five days, the display of the stupidity in the elected bodies of Congress has been on full display.
For the past five days, Americans have had to put up with politically framed speeches and explanations of why this shutdown had to happen and whose fault it truly is.
For the past five days the amount of grandstanding “on principle” has made many feel that no one in Washington DC will ever listen to the people ever again.
However for the past five days—outside of DC—another story began to be told.
For the past five days, more than a quarter of a million American citizens have been more successful in gaining consensus than sixty elected U.S. Senators.
And with a greater measure of what it actually costs those same quarter of a million citizens—representing political affiliations of every stripe—have shamed our nation’s highest elected body into an abject embarrassment for their inability to reflect the will of those who sent them there.
Simultaneously this crystal clear sign of American will has survived a challenge to its integrity that is fairly telling.
Here are the details.
At the Senate’s inability to find the votes necessary to pass the initial 5 billion to fund a permanent border barrier, a triple amputee, decided to lead in a different direction.
Brian Kolfage, the most seriously wounded Special Forces Airman to ever survive combat, has no more use for three of his four limbs. He is a successful private citizen. He is a Purple Heart recipient.
Last week he started the Go Fund me page: “We The People Will Fund The Wall.”
Five days after he did, the page has been liked some 259,000, with nearly 258,000 of those liking the page making a contribution.
As a matter of fact for every two seconds that has ticked off our clocks for the last five days a new donor has given on average roughly $62 to the fund.
He’s had no 24 hours a day CSPAN camera for him to command, or a radio platform to use for a telethon, or even a jammed media tour to help get the word out.
He has simply challenged Americans, to act on what they believe. In five days he has raised close to $16,000,000.00!
A smarmy response page titled: “Ladders To Get Over Trump’s Wall” has also been formed.
The response there hasn’t been quite as stunning with barely 5000 people participating and a whopping total of $125,000 raised. Which averages out close to $30 per donor.
Perhaps not surprising, Go Fund Me, rates the “Ladders” page as a “trending page” even with such paltry results. The “Build The Wall” page is supposedly “not trending.”
Obviously many forms of awareness and promotion could change the outcome of both pages, so in that sense they are anything but a serious example resembling scientific evidence. Yet with similar anonymity through the end of Saturday it is hard to argue that they don’t point to an absolute and conclusive comparison.
This comparison stands in sharp contrast to the math in Washington DC. President Trump demanded Congress produce $5 billion to further the current wall efforts. Voters believe that this fixed cost is reasonable given that we spent $285 billion last year attempting to enforce border security without one.
Americans overwhelmingly believe a southern barrier to our border needs to be established. And while the elected bodies of Congress seemed grossly ham-handed in attempting to fund one, the free market, the internet, and one of our finest warriors—who has only one functioning limb—seem to be able to accomplish more precisely what the people expect.
And if they’ve raised $16million in five days, with almost no exposure, imagine what the response would be if they garnered the press the issue deserves!
Then imagine such a base going to the ballot box and canceling the paychecks Congress still draws even after they voted to shutdown the government.
Sometimes things aren’t nearly as complicated as we imagine them to be. Some days it just takes the example of someone who understands sacrifice—like a triple amputee—to help us see it!
And don’t forget the republicans that are helping them
Just wish that Trump would make good use of this shutdown. He should go through all Federal agencies and fire any and all administrative appointees who were hired between 2009 and 2016.No funds, no jobs. It would do wonders in draining the swamp and within minutes the Democrats will fund the wall.
we spent $285 billion last year attempting to enforce border security without one.
I wonder that if a wall was in place and the cost of border security went down, how many contractors who donate money to Democrat candidates would be out of business? Not only would the Democrats lose future votes but they would also lose campaign contributions. The donations would cease to come in. Interesting read. Thx.
$16,484,807 of $1.0B goal
Raised by 271,175 people in 7 days
Average contribution = $60.8
If the GOP were on the side of the citizens and the rule of law we would already have a secure border and there would have been no need for Trump.
Freeze all entitlement money to illegals until wall is erected problem solved.
Actually, it is the Republicans that are betraying us on the wall. Betray is to deceive, seduce and then desert; to break faith with, among other things. It was and is the Republicans that betrayed us and still are. It was the Republicans that promised us. It was the Republicans that we trusted to keep their promises. It was the Republicans that broke their promises. Therefore, it is the Republicans that have and are betraying us. Why? Simple. No sane individual on this forum expects or trusts the Democrats to do anything except to lie, murder[abortion], and steal.
When Schumer and other Rats declare that Trump will never get wall funding, they are declaring that they are enemies of America and don’t care how many citizens they get killed. President needs to make an Oval Office address to the nation declaring a national emergency, explaining what needs to be done at the border and describing the treachery of the Democrats.
…..and %50 remittance tax from wires from USA to Mexico and Central America.
Indeed and censor mail from USA to Mexico and Central America for money orders.
Wall funds
When all sanctuary cities and states are nationalized for failure to be part of the United States of America, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi will not have jobs. As elected representatives of former states now under military rule, the states they represented will no longer exist.
A most excellent post, Truth29! Deserves to be repeated:
“When Schumer and other Rats declare that Trump will never get wall funding, they are declaring that they are enemies of America and don’t care how many citizens they get killed. President [Trump] needs to make an Oval Office address to the nation declaring a national emergency, explaining what needs to be done at the border and describing the treachery of the Democrats.”
I guess what strikes me so much in this whole farce is that our Govt officials no longer “represent” the people and their wishes, but rather talk of leadership and they decide what is best for us.
“Actually, it is the Republicans that are betraying us on the wall.”
You are correct. The betrayal began with George H.W. Bush who failed to secure the border after the “one time” Reagan amnesty. His son George W. Bush failed in achieving a second amnesty. However he did circumvent the legislation Congress passed to build a wall without his support. He opted for a “virtual” wall which turned out to be a multibillion dollar boondoggle for Boeing. The virtual wall was quickly abandoned by his successor Barack Obama. Subsequently, John Boehner, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell gave lip service to “border protection” while maneuvering behind the scenes to insure no serious money was appropriated to build a strong physical barrier.
The Democrats are very open in their opposition to the wall. The Republicans have demonstrated they will lie about supporting the wall while they quietly use legislative maneuvers to prevent the wall from being funded or built.
How many GOP Congresscritters will return to their districts in 2019 and 2020 to tell constituents how much they support the wall but can’t do anything because Nancy Pelosi controls the House? Should the GOP recapture the House in 2020, how many of those same GOP Congresscritters will aggressively push to fund the wall. The history of the past decade suggests very few. After all, how many of your GOP members of Congress are on local television during the current holiday break demanding the wall be funded and built? In my district I hear crickets.
Sanctuary cities in California are taking a beating failure has arrived the state is 2 trillion in debt streets. In Frisco streets are full of needles and human crap but the liberals don’t talk about that because they can’t blame Trump or anyone else.
All they need do is put up a DACA fix that includes wall funding, same deal Trump offered them a year ago.
Because they betray us on EVERYTHING????
“President needs to make an Oval Office address to the nation declaring a national emergency, explaining what needs to be done at the border and describing the treachery of the Democrats.”
Yes, and he needs to make it very clear about just how much money is being spent under the current “no wall” conditions. This isn’t about the $5 billion.
It seems like a good idea, but it's evident someone (perhaps PDJT himself) feels Oval Office speeches to the nation aren't a good fit for him, as he's had ample reasons for giving that type of speech, but hasn't.
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