Posted on 12/25/2018 6:13:06 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Senator Rand Paul thinks he knows where we could find the funding to build the wall. Instead of rebuilding Afghanistan, we could use that money for the wall and our own national security.
Donald Trump Jr. agrees...
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“We could easily find $5 billion for a wall.”
How about if you try hard?
Truth be told, $10 billion would do a decent job, and could probably get put on contract before the 2020 election.
BUMP!!
I like they way you think
$25 billion is the functional equivalent of sharks in a moat with laser beams on their heads.
It conservatively funds “full operational control” of the border - 1,100 miles of strong barrier, constant technology overwatch of the whole border (and wide buffer zones on both sides), as well as the extra personnel and equipment for effective interdiction.
Truth be told, $10 billion will lay in some pretty ass-kicking barrier. $25 billion over five years is the gold standard - effectively a closed door.
Why are we in Afghanistan?
li’l dr. nutz in his natural habitat; leftist broadcasts. makes you wonder that his neighbor may have had a point.
I want it closed with a bank vault type door..
25 billion is a small price to pay for that kind of security.
I’ve got another much better idea to get the democrats to approve funding for the wall.
Non-essential.
Most essential services remain open, while the non-essential functions will remain closed until funding is approved. But, non-essential functions also come with non-essential jobs or non-essential workers.
Son, what Trump should do is to issue a warning or even a threat that, he will be examining the non-essential jobs and non-essential workers, and make a lot of cuts in non-essential programs and non-essential workers, all with the goal of cutting ‘federal waste’ and cut or reduce the federal budget.
I’m thinking that, democrats LOVE BIG GOVERNMENT, including the non-essential programs and won’t jeopardize any government programs and any government jobs.
SCARE the democrats to death with the cuts in NON-ESSENTIAL, which they deem essential to their causes.
Quick read: Corporations, minerals, poppy fields.
With the $6 Trillion we wasted in middle-east wars and nation building, we could have built walls around all 187 countries in the world.
US even sending "Foreign Aid" to China.
Insanity rules.
To PRC:
$53,071,125
ALL AGENCIES: $53m
Not too much ..but money wasted.
Egg nog talking?
Why do we have non-essential federal workers?
I don’t have the figures off the top of my head, but let’s do a little math using as a starting point the proposition undertaken by the crowdfunding that’s just a few weeks ago been started by the disabled American soldier, whose name I don’t remember now. How many people voted for Trump? How many of those would be willing to fund the wall with contributions of a figure to be determined by what is needed over the course of , say, the next two years? Is there enough of a hunger for the wall so that millions of people would be willing to say, contribute on some kind of “flex-pay” system, like the way you can buy things on Home Shopping Network, over a period of the next twelve months, or a bit longer> How much could be raised if X millions of people pledged X dollars that way? Wouldn’t it drive the Dems up the wall? It would be worth it just to see that, because THEY want to be the ones to ultimately control the purse-strings, and Trump, I must say, has played right into that and given them power they don’t deserve. He doesn’t necessarily have to.Everything would come crashing down around them if the American people could be the ones paying for the wall, THEN we’d see what the real Agenda of the Dems is, once and for all, they’d be unmasked.
Shouldn’t there be billions in aid to Mexico?
Yeah, but needing the money leads to needing Congressional buy-in. Bring your own money, build the wall, what can they do?
All the “non-essential” jobs then would be deemed “essential” by the Dems, who shortly would find themselves without the kinds of constituencies they labored so long and hard to build. Anyone ultimately cutting out the “non-essential” jobs would be considered to be an enemy of all those people “who just want to feed their families” and would throw them out into the job market with all the “non-skills” they’ve acquired with their “non-essential” jobs. It’s the perfect “no-win” situation for Trump.
Pence is like Jeff Sessions, but without any real expectations for living up to his title.
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FBI budget they deign to divulge: almost 9 billion.
NSA budget: Snowden said it was around 50 billion. They admit around 10 billion.
The point is that it’s all kabuki theatre if they are fighting about a 1 time 5 billion or so expenditure. Good grief the NSA is the biggest employer in Maryland. They are never going to allow any sort of viable barrier in my opinion.
Freegards
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