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Bidding has begun for Trump's border wall
CBS News ^ | March 20, 2017 | AP

Posted on 03/22/2017 8:23:54 PM PDT by Innovative

The Trump administration wants to build a 30-foot-high border wall that looks good from the north side and is difficult to climb or cut through, according to a pair of contract notices posted to a government website further detailing President Donald Trump’s promise to build a “big, beautiful wall” at the Mexican border.

The notices were made public late Friday by Customs and Border Protection, the Homeland Security Department agency that will oversee the project and eventually patrol and maintain the wall. The proposals are due to the government by March 29.

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TOPICS: Government; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: border; bordersecurity; borderwall; buildthewall; first100days; trump; trump45
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Trump is keeping his promises.
1 posted on 03/22/2017 8:23:54 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative

Look good from the northern side, and maybe have giant pictures of Rosie O’Donnell stenciled ever 100 ft. or so on the southern side. Deterrent.


2 posted on 03/22/2017 8:39:20 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Innovative
And just what is wrong with the wall that Obama used our taxpayer money to build ?


3 posted on 03/22/2017 8:40:19 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Innovative

I wonder who will be reviewing those bids.


4 posted on 03/22/2017 8:42:05 PM PDT by gubamyster
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The wall needs to be 39 feet tall. Jumping from 39 feet will break leg bones. 30 feet is marginal.


5 posted on 03/22/2017 8:42:22 PM PDT by entropy12 (Enough winning Mr President already!)
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To: Innovative

The obvious choice is Wall-Mart.


6 posted on 03/22/2017 8:44:29 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Innovative
Trump doesn't have to build a wall ALL the way across the border. Here's the truth.


7 posted on 03/22/2017 8:46:02 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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And ‘Leave It To Beaver’s Tony Dow should be heading the project. Heh
Wally was a can-do kinda guy.


8 posted on 03/22/2017 8:50:52 PM PDT by tumblindice
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To: entropy12
30 feet is marginal.

Not if there are punji stakes for 10 feet at the base of the wall.

9 posted on 03/22/2017 8:55:05 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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I wonder who will be reviewing those bids.

Richard Blum, Dianne Feinstein's husband. He's doing a bang-up job with California's high speed rail.

10 posted on 03/22/2017 8:57:25 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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What about... “Who is going to pay for the wall?”

Mexico?? How bout this...... 22 Billion (What)

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/09/19/22-billion-dollars-found-photos-of-a-mexican-drug-lords-home-after-being-raided/


11 posted on 03/22/2017 8:59:49 PM PDT by hapnHal
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I’m all for the wall, but I also want DJT to make it inhospitable for them to stay.


12 posted on 03/22/2017 9:09:02 PM PDT by umgud
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Richard Blum, Dianne Feinstein's husband. He's doing a bang-up job with California's high speed rail.

That's a good one. I don't think Trump will let him any where near the bids.

I hope it is Donald, Don Jr. & Eric. They seem to know what they are doing when it comes to building things.

13 posted on 03/22/2017 9:16:35 PM PDT by gubamyster
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Just make sure the contractors do a good job and don’t Mickey Mouse it.


14 posted on 03/22/2017 9:20:38 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them.)
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To: entropy12

“30 feet is marginal.”

Actually, there is a pretty high risk of death from that height, especially if you are not close to a hospital. True, if you are over 40 feet, mortality starts cracking 50%, but there are other variables, like what kind of surface is the landing. If you are not killed, you are very unlikely to be OK.

It is also a sickeningly scary height for most people to climb. It is a serious obstacle to the great majority of people.

But probably more than that, it is a practical height to build, because they will use precast concrete panels, which must be set into the ground at least six feet (more in places with a slope). If you can’t transport the one million or so panels needed for a sea to sea wall on regular 40 foot tractor trailers, your costs go way up, fewer contractors would be able to work with them, and it will take longer.


15 posted on 03/22/2017 9:34:38 PM PDT by BeauBo
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My parents house in India was 2 stories high with 12 foot ceilings and a flat top terrace on top. As kids we were not scared to climb down from the top floor, including the 3’ additional railing wall. So 27’ was no big deal. One part of the house had a third floor room, also with a flat roof on top. When we climbed on top of that, it was like 37’ to the ground, and that looked extremely scary. We never dared to climb down from that side using the outside drain pipes. I still get nightmares, of accidentally falling down from the 3rd floor ceiling, which had only 1 foot high railing wall.


16 posted on 03/22/2017 10:24:12 PM PDT by entropy12 (Enough winning Mr President already!)
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Well, I guess that we could always bolt some additional metal obstacle, like a 10 foot fence that curves outward with concertina on top, in those place where folks are too frisky.


17 posted on 03/22/2017 10:29:19 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: entropy12
As kids we were not scared to climb down from the top floor, including the 3’ additional railing wall. So 27’ was no big deal.

So, did you ever fall 27'...or as a kid...just didn't have a lick of sense?

18 posted on 03/22/2017 10:29:42 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: entropy12
This is more like a twenty or twenty four foot wall (near Bethlehem), but the outward curving fence on top adds some extra adventure. Concertina is hard to pick through at ground level, so up there, at an angle, accidents are bound to happen. A thirty foot sheer concrete base takes you a long way.


19 posted on 03/22/2017 10:38:23 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: UCANSEE2

if it cost more than 10 bucks...

Obama paid to much.


20 posted on 03/22/2017 11:45:09 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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