Posted on 05/21/2006 4:58:16 AM PDT by ovrtaxt
No, read it carefully- it's incredibly cheap compared to the cost of social services for illegals.
Maybe we should consult with the Chinese...they're pretty good at building walls of the size necessary to stop the flow of illegals.
You forget - this estimate is from the Federal Goverment - you know, the ones who spend $500 for a $12 Wal-Mart hammer and $2K for a toilet seat.... By the time the appropriate kick-backs are paid to interested parties, then the cost goes up to AT LEAST $568.18 (remember - government contracts always under-estimate the costs).
Yeah right. New Orleans is using Mexican labor, and that's no bargain.
How many millions for each mile for Houston's downtown choo choo?
Perhaps the Senate could find us a source of cheap labor somewhere ..
$3 million per mile is a hell of a lot cheaper than the $15 billion spent on a mile and a half of road on Boston's Big Dig.
haha I could name about 12 RINOs who would make an excellent chain gang!
We have to keep the pressure on. I agree that the govt. would like nothing better than to see us go back to sleep, but that ain't gonna happen.
I was implying what GW would eventually say to keep from having to build the wall/fence.
The fact of the matter is - IF you compare it to the cost of services for illegals, then yes it COULD be a bargain (if we can somehow deport them after the wall is built). But as we won't be saving that money because they will all be granted amnesty (ie - rewarded for breaking the law), we will still be out the fence money AND still be paying the cost of services.
ANd of course, as is true with most statistics - if you compare it to the right figures, you can make $2k toilet seats look like a bargain...
And I am 100% in favor of building a fence/wall to protect our border. I just find it laughable that the cost has already been figured to be $3 million per mile - a number that, were it built by private parties, is several times what it should actually cost.
So - who's going to get the contract? Halliburton???
It never has been a huge bargin. Mexican labor is just a bit lower than Amerian labor, and they are willing to take on any job. The fact is America does not have enough people willing to do hard labor. Certainly American work ethic is one of the best, but most people would rather do something else. I am sure you disagree, but without Mexican labor, it would take 2 or 3 times longer to rebuild New Orleans.
Spend whatever it takes,just get it built.At this point who cares what it costs.
its either a wall at the border or a wall around your local neighborhood like they have in south america.
I'm sure that we can find companies able to provide inexpensive labor to build the wall, so long as we don't ask too closely where the labor came from.
"in an area where labor costs are far lower than in the United States."
Well, Israel does not have millions of Mexican illegals readily available as we do, at low cost, to build the wall. Heck, aren't they also rebuilding New Orleans? Have them build the wall and leave them on the South side of it when complete.
I hire only citizens for my business (I'm in the light construction/landscape field), and I have many competitors who hire Mexicans. We are better, more efficient, and I'm quite successful. I think the value of an uneducated worker who can't communicate is way overvalued.
Just my personal, subjective experience.
There's no wall in the world that will contain clever people determined to get over, through or under it.
The reason walls erected by tyrants worked was because potential escapees were ruthlessly and summarily shot on sight, as in Berlin.
When the illegals get over, around or under the Great Wall of Bush, no one will be shot. Those who are caught will be given every courtesy, a shower and a cold cerveza. They'll be sent home where they'll stay till they try again in a different spot with a different strategy. The profits of a successful coyote will triple.
Leni
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