Posted on 04/11/2019 11:22:35 PM PDT by BeauBo
"I request that you identify, by May 10, 2019, existing military construction projects of sufficient value to provide up to $3.6 billion in funding for my consideration," Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan wrote in an April 11 memo to Elaine McCusker, the Pentagon's comptroller. "You are not to consider family housing, barracks, or dormitory projects; projects that have already been awarded; or projects that have fiscal year 2019 award dates."
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When this money gets put to work, it will provide the legal requirement for plaintiffs to request injunctions to stop it.
So expect those radical Leftists in robes to do their worst in June/July.
We can make the wall much shorter by moving the border south.
End any building in Afghanistan.
Yep,I was thinking the Panama Canal would make a great border.
I think this would just make the problem worse. If the US annexed Mexico, all of the current Mexicans would come with the land. They would become citizens immediately and have free movement into the rest of the states.
We could also easily get to Obama's 57 states.
We would also get all of the Mexican Oil.
Pemex could be sold off for a tidy sum as could Mexican oil leases.
The Mexican drug cartels would then become targets of some less easily bought LEOs.
Prime Mexican tourist destinations could be made safe again.
I don’t think it is a good idea but it wouldn’t be all bad.
It would be a much better idea for Mexico’s government to clean up their act and start privatizing their Oil business.
Why the Trump Administration is repeatedly placing all of its eggs in the Supreme Court basket is beyond comprehension. It knows full well all of its directives will be challenged by Obama-appointed judges. There are other ways to proceed on this matter that do not require months and months of delay while waiting for USSC decisions to be made by politicized judges who have been appointed not elected. What I think is the danger here is a precedent being set to devolve executive branch constitutional authority over to the judiciary on matters of sovereignty and national security, which are not its areas of responsibility.
They are not doing that. President Trump is appointing lower court judges at about twice the rate Obama did.
Yep,I was thinking the Panama Canal would make a great border.
“We would also get all of the Mexican Oil. “
Thanks to fracking and including the oil being shipped from Canada, the US is oil independent. The oil infrastructure in Mexico has been deteriorating for about 40 years as the government treated oil as a cash cow. They have not invested sufficiently and their production numbers have been falling. Why would the US even invest in Mexican oil when we don’t need it?
Take it from the F-35... over $400 Billion to date and an estimated $1.5 Trillion over it’s life.
The border wall would be a rounding error in that budget.
I worked for General Dynamics. The Army had been telling us for a decade or more they wanted a light tank. They wanted to stop production of the Abrams because it was too heavy and too difficult to transport and maintain in theater. The Army feared that advancing technology would be able to effectively target the tank’s one vulnerability, its logistics train. An advancing tank column is followed by a non-stop convoy of vulnerable tanker trucks. Those can be knocked out by tiny drones that are effectively invisible and therefore almost invulnerable to air defenses.
The Abrams wasn’t being used in Afghanistan as the terrain is unsuitable. Again, the Army asked GD for a light tank that would be suitable. I was in a meeting where the business development guy laughed and said that wasn’t what the Army wanted. Right to their faces. When Oshkosh, General Defense and one other, presented their tanks built on a truck chassis, the Army looked around for the money to buy them. They cancelled all of GD’s heavy vehicle contracts and spent the money instead on the new vehicles.
This wall is an opportunity for the military to get out of contracts that are political instead of military. The reason GD didn’t have to comply with the Army’s request is Congress was involved and forced the Army to buy a vehicle they didn’t want, or at least didn’t want more of.
The government has a long history of buying equipment for political instead of military purposes. You can buy a never issued Civil War muzzle loader because in order to get their funding, the Army had to buy thousands of these guns. They were so obsolete they were never issued and languished in a warehouse for over 100 years until they were sold off. (They were probably next to the Arc of the Covenant.)
When you think about something like this, it really isn’t a bad idea. I would probably build some manufacturing facilities and ports down there and offer those jobs to illegals in the US as an incentive to get them back to the Mexican region of the US. I would also hire a private army of 10,000 pipe hitting mofos to go down there and take on the cartels.
The democrats would love the millions more voters.
About 10 years after the Berlin wall, I asked a woman who lived there about it. I will never forget what she said.. to sum it up, it would be like the US taking in Mexico.
She went on to explain the different cultural problems and absorbing a 3rd world economy.
She decided to move here with her daughter because Germany was no longer German and it was no longer safe.
“We can make the wall much shorter by moving the border south”
You might have something there. We could buy a few thousand miles of northern Mexico from them.
They're here anyway getting freebies at our cost. Mexico has not reason to help Trump block the invaders because they reap the rewards in remittances. A few years ago, remittances from the US was their #2 GPN only after oil. If the truth were told, it might be out doing oil these days.
Set the new US border on the Panama Canal and reclaim it as our own. Establish a no man's land on the southern side of it to eliminate lawyers from claiming any invaders as rightfully here as they can with the current border situation.
Only reason the cartels are still there is the money it brings in. Mexican army could stomp them out anytime but won’t.
It doesn't natter who appoints the judges or how many. Trump is still deferring to the judiciary to make a final decision on a matter constitutionally within the authority of the executive branch and the president. That's devolution of power. And it is a great danger.
Because it is traded commodity, it is traded in dollars and because OPIC has weaponized oil trade.
You’re right that we should not invest in Mexican oil as long as it is in the government ‘s control. But that is not what I was suggesting.
I might also point out that China and Russia are seeking to take control of Venezuelan oil.
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