Posted on 04/05/2017 7:07:38 PM PDT by TigerClaws
SAN DIEGO — One bidder wants to cover President Donald Trump’s border wall with solar panels. Another suggests building a wall large enough for a deck that would offer tourists scenic views of the desert.
In the competition to build the wall, traditional bids are interspersed with more whimsical ideas.
As Tuesday’s deadline for bids passed, US Customs and Border Protection declined to identify bidders or say how many there were, which is standard practice in government contracting. The federal government expects to announce around June 1 which companies will be hired to build prototypes.
Designs must be able to repel pickaxes and sledgehammers for at least an hour and be aesthetically pleasing from the north side.
Trump’s multibillion-dollar plan promises potentially big profits but also risks inviting a backlash from people who oppose the project.
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I wouldn’t mind some turrets and a walkway on top, so we can taunt the people to the south.
They have those in MEXICO
LOL!
Don’t forget the Visual Deterrent. Giant images of Rosie O’Donnell on the south-facing side. Mexico will gladly pay for the wall in order to get permission to remove them.
Solar thermal panels that can be used to generate high pressure steam would be a nice touch with a practical application.... spray nozzles every few feet with sensors in the wall to trigger them.
Dumb question but I wonder how close to the actual border will the wall need to go? After all, if it is right on the border, that would be impossible to build without stepping foot into Mexico during construction, right? So if the wall is left some distance from the actual border to accommodate the construction crew and machinery, will this mean that the strip of land that goes up to the wall end on the southern side up being ceded to Mexico?
Who cares? Every interstate you drive on has an easmsmt of a couple hundred feet past the edge of the road.
There are a ton of problems.
we need to break the corrupt Mexican Gov and our Corrupt Gov
Citizens could control their backyards if you let them
Mi FReeping Ojos!
Just concrete, steel and a jagged glass fringe on the top please.
Okay - maybe some punji stick traps too.
Wrong.
99% of Tx is private land
Tx would get along quite well with our tejano friends if it weren’t for the FED getting in our business.
I want an express lane for guillotines and a place where loved ones can take selfies with the headless corpses of their amigos.
The US government owns the land on the border. If more land is needed it will be procured thru eminent domain. So it’s tough tacos for some Texans. But they will be over compensated I’m sure.
Boy is that an old pic I see my 79 Olds Station Wagon on the left with the hood up. Lol
The problem is Texans don’t realize their porous border leads to Maryland, Indiana and Michigan. Most average Americans clean their own houses and do their own yard work. The illegal invasion is a real burden on them and they see no benefit what so ever. The taxation alone is killing them.
I love that it must look good from the north side LOL.
I like the idea of solar panels. Hook them up to a DC electric fence on top. Make it strong enough to drop em like flies back onto thier side.
Anyone here ever get nailed by DC? I have...it wont let go of you.
Or hook up a mag from an old John Deere two popper. Those are REALLY nasty. One of those nearly killed a bull my uncle had. The dam thing learned to simply run through a fencer. He didnt run through that when he hooked that magneto up to it. Dropped that bull like a ton of bricks.
How about a ship canal along the border from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico.
Wide enough and deep enough for our largest aircraft carriers and Very Large Crude Carriers to bypass the Panama Canal and Cape Horn.
It will be a barrier to illegals, bolster Naval strength, create jobs and industry, and make money to pay for itself all at the same time.
Just building it would fuel the economy for 10 years.
That already is past of the requirements.
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