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Pres. Trump Needs Money For the WALL. WELL...
1/1/19 | hapnHAL

Posted on 01/01/2019 7:59:14 PM PST by hapnHal

Well here are a few money sources.

America’s top 15 largest banks In the years since the financial crisis, the nation’s biggest banks have grown substantially. All in all, the top 15 largest banks now hold a combined total of $13.2 trillion in assets.

For a sense of the vast scale of that wealth, $13.2 trillion is enough to buy every one of the 7.6 billion human beings on Earth a 13-inch MacBook Pro, with a little left over for accessories.

Of course, every year there are changes in this exclusive club. Larger banks trade places with one another, and smaller banks drop out, replaced by faster-growing rivals.

This year, you need at least $201.3 billion in assets to join the club, a sum so large that, if converted into $100 bills laid end to end, would reach the moon (with several thousand miles left over to check out the view).

Here are the 15 largest banks in the U.S. by assets, according to the latest numbers from S&P Global Market Intelligence, a financial industry research firm.

Rank Bank name Total assets 1 JPMorgan Chase & Co. $2.53 trillion 2 Bank of America Corp. $2.28 trillion 3 Wells Fargo & Co. $1.95 trillion 4 Citigroup Inc. $1.84 trillion 5 Goldman Sachs Group Inc. $917 billion 6 Morgan Stanley $851.86 billion 7 U.S. Bancorp $462.04 billion 8 TD Group US Holdings LLC $380.91 billion 9 PNC Financial Services Group Inc$380.77 billion 10 Bank of New York Mellon Corp. $371.76 billion 11 Capital One Financial Corp. $365.69 billion 12 State Street Corp. $238.42 billion 13 BB&T Corp. $221.64 billion 14 SunTrust Banks Inc. $205.96 billion 15 HSBC USA Inc. $201.30 billion


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1 posted on 01/01/2019 7:59:14 PM PST by hapnHal
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To: hapnHal

So are you proposing DJT just take the money from the big banks? Since when is that a conservative value? Or am I misunderstanding your post?


2 posted on 01/01/2019 8:03:39 PM PST by luv2ski
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To: luv2ski

my thought as well. if property isn’t secure, nothing is secure. people are losing their damn minds.


3 posted on 01/01/2019 8:06:01 PM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: luv2ski

LOL you mean armed robbery is not exactly conservative?


4 posted on 01/01/2019 8:06:06 PM PST by entropy12 (One million LEGAL immigrants/year is too many, without vetting for skills, Wealth or English skills.)
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To: luv2ski

We’re spending over 40 billion a year to observe Afghan corruption up close.
I thought early on that Trump would be able to get a wall done. Seemed like pretty low hanging fruit.


5 posted on 01/01/2019 8:11:09 PM PST by Gunslingr3
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To: hapnHal

Mark Levin is going to pay for it.


6 posted on 01/01/2019 8:11:28 PM PST by conservative98
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To: hapnHal

Excuse me if I am wrong, but couldn’t this all be solved in a day with an executive order, declaring a national emergency and mandating $25 billion be set aside and wall construction be started immediately without any permission being needed from the Marxists? So WHY isn’t he doing it??


7 posted on 01/01/2019 8:12:48 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Until Hillary is in jail, equal justice under the law will not exist in the USA)
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To: hapnHal

https://www.gofundme.com/TheTrumpWall

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8 posted on 01/01/2019 8:13:26 PM PST by LucyT
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To: hapnHal
You have as much sense as cba123, which is none.
9 posted on 01/01/2019 8:19:48 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: hapnHal

I’ll take cash instead of a Macbook Pro.


10 posted on 01/01/2019 8:21:02 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: LucyT

the gofundme idea is actually more insane and ultimately unworkable than this guy’s “go rob a bank” idea — although it does have the virtue of not being blatantly illegal.


11 posted on 01/01/2019 8:21:12 PM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: Gunslingr3

There weren’t enough votes in the Senate for it.


12 posted on 01/01/2019 8:25:47 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: hapnHal

https://www.businessinsider.com/congressman-proposes-crowdfunding-the-wall-through-border-bonds-2018-12

Mississippi Rep. Steven Palazzo has introduced a bill for WALL BONDS, the modern day spirit of War Bonds.

Sounds like a plausible idea to me!!


13 posted on 01/01/2019 8:26:09 PM PST by edie1960
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To: luv2ski

Forget it. He’s rolling.


14 posted on 01/01/2019 8:27:55 PM PST by JennysCool
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Because he wants to get re-elected in 2020. Just watch what he does if re-elected. In the meanwhile PDJT is making democrats look anti-border-security and who ever is the democrat nominee in 2020 will be stuck with that agenda.


15 posted on 01/01/2019 8:30:54 PM PST by entropy12 (One million LEGAL immigrants/year is too many, without vetting for skills, Wealth or English skills.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Trump should just get the Army of Engineers to build the wall and get the money out of the largest single item in the budget, defense spending.

His primary job as president is the safety and security of the American people.

And he is over the Defense Department in his administration.

Sounds like a an easy fix to me. Just draw up a little EO to make it legal and bingo, the deed is done.

But then I'm just sitting here typing on my computer and he's the President of the United States, so what do I know.

16 posted on 01/01/2019 8:31:47 PM PST by HotHunt (Reagan was good but TRUMP IS GREAT!)
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To: TigersEye; Gunslingr3

Correct, the real culprits in stopping the wall are globalist republicans, who must obey their donor class.


17 posted on 01/01/2019 8:32:50 PM PST by entropy12 (One million LEGAL immigrants/year is too many, without vetting for skills, Wealth or English skills.)
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To: edie1960

We don’t need wall bonds, gofundme crap or anything else along those lines....Our problem is an irreparably corrupt fed govt that REFUSES to protect the American people and the states from invasion. Their primary reason for being.

We need people in D.C. by the millions.


18 posted on 01/01/2019 8:34:57 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)
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To: HotHunt

Like your tag-line. Reason Trump is trying to get funding through the normal channels of congressional appropriations is so that the MSM won’t attack him 24-7 as a radical dictator. And Trump is running for re-election. Watch out if he wins re-election. The wall will get built in his 2nd term. Count on it.


19 posted on 01/01/2019 8:36:21 PM PST by entropy12 (One million LEGAL immigrants/year is too many, without vetting for skills, Wealth or English skills.)
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To: TigersEye

I think he made a mistake failing to take them on for it too.
Lot more chance of success with resolving a government shutdown to achieve your signature campaign promise in the first year of your term when both sides of Congress are your party.
If he doesn’t get it out of this shutdown, when does he - his last year?


20 posted on 01/01/2019 8:40:37 PM PST by Gunslingr3
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