Posting from an engineer's perspective:
Assuming there is 2000 miles of border (just an estimate), that's 10,560,000 feet. At an estimated $150 per foot, that comes to $1.584 Trillion. Let's assume half of the border needs to be fenced due to natural barriers, that's still over $750 Billion to do the job. If each donor buys a foot of wall, that will require 5.2 million US citizens to donate $150 each. Probably feasible, but it's gonna take a lot of work.
Posting from an engineer's perspective:
Assuming there is 2000 miles of border (just an estimate), that's 10,560,000 feet. At an estimated $150 per foot, that comes to $1.584 Trillion. Let's assume half of the border needs to be fenced due to natural barriers, that's still over $750 Billion to do the job. If each donor buys a foot of wall, that will require 5.2 million US citizens to donate $150 each. Probably feasible, but it's gonna take a lot of work.
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Much cheaper if we buy the parts from Walmart.
-ducks head down-
ROFL
I don't think it'll be that hard to get 5 million fed up Americans to open their wallets. I'm pretty tight with a buck, but I'll send money to build a wall in a heartbeat.
You know those figures are spurious. Don't expect everyone to roll over just because you claim to be an engineer geek.
If each donor buys a foot of wall, that will require 5.2 million US citizens to donate $150 each. Probably feasible, but it's gonna take a lot of work.""
I suspect that alot more than 5.2 million American will pay to keep more than 20 million intruders out.
Using your math, if 20 million Americans donate about $40 each, this wall could be built.
I also suspect that there are alot of people who would put their vacation time and some of their retriement time and skills to work on the wall project.
In fact, IF the minutemen make a survey on the topic, I suspect they will get overwhelmed with volunteers.
I sure as hell cannot build a wall, but I can send an amount of money that is under $200, and I can send more for groceries to feed these people while they are working.
Did you mean 1.584 Billion??? Much smaller sum. I imagine that the border states spend this amount of money each and every year on services for illegals.
That's 1.5 billion, not trillion. Check your numbers.
You forgot to deduct the $57.8 million we contribute annually to Mexico for border security. http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1229mexicoaid.html
You've added some extra zeroes to your figure:
1.056^7 x 150 = 1.584^9
That would be 1,584,000,000 1.584 BILLION, not 1.584 trillion.