[Dane]

Well of course walls are expensive, all one has to do is look how building walls brought down the communist Soviet Union.

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

[I see my hands]

"Price for border fence up to $49 billion"

A borer fence in place.. Priceless.

[RodgerD]

How's the Cry for Help coming along?

[King Moonracer]

Those Soviets had a real hard time with illegal immigrants. Especially the East Germans. They probably had 1 or 2 a year.

[spectre]

"Those who do not learn from History are doomed to repeat it".

Remember the Alamo..?

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[trumandogz]

49 Billion and it will not stop half the illegals coming across the border.

[gubamyster]

ping

[microgood]

Ted Steven's bridge to nowhere must be part of it.

[Mojave]

$13,000+ per foot? Bovine scat.

[Lurker]

I see our resident lib dem Dingus is now using the SF Chronicle as an unbiased news source.

No surprise there.

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[Plutarch]

This is probably using the Federal rules that stipulate union labor rates.

[Fierce Allegiance]

I think all illegals who want to stay should be sponsored by a real American citizen who would be held equally responsible for the crimes these illegals commit every day.

Would you volunteer, Dane? (Assuming you are not an illegal yourself.)

[Fierce Allegiance]

There is a big distinction between this wall and the walls of the Communists. They put them up to entrap their citizenry, this one is to protect our people.

Much more like the Great Wall of China than the Brandenburg Gate.

[exit82]

Cheap, compared to the cost of losing a major American city to terrorism.

Let's stop talking and start building.

[WatchingInAmazement]

"The findings did not deter Congressional backers of the border fence, including Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-San Diego, the fence's principal proponent.

"Mr. Hunter firmly supports expanding the San Diego border fence across the U.S.-Mexico border," said spokesman Joe Kasper. "This doesn't have to be and should not be as costly an endeavor as some are suggesting."

PING!

[kabar]

$49 billion for 25 years or $2 billion a year. How much do the 500,000 to 1 million illegals cost us a year? What are the cost savings in border personnel for 25 years since fences or physical barriers are nothing more than force multipliers in terms of personnel requirements? We have a $2.6 trillion dollar annual budget. $2 billion a year is almost a rounding error, especially as it compares to the budget 25 years from now.

The true measure of the physical barrier is not costs, but effectiveness. If we can reduce the number of invaders, the costs are well worth it. What are illegals costing us in terms of our social welfare, educational, penal, and medical systems or the additional infrastructure to support them?

[Ilky Hucktar]

There's a difference between "wanting in and wanting out," as Pres. Reagan said, and he did bring down the iron curtain. And shooting those trying to cross that wall was more or less emblematic of what the tryants are all about. We haven't found the solution to the problem of our borders yet. We might not even find it after our second Pearl Harbor.

[DustyMoment]

Gee, this is turning into a bargain!! Last week, it was $60 billion!!!






(What a buncha maroons!!)

[ml/nj]

Observation towers and bullets would be much cheaper.

ML/NJ

[Candor7]

Notice how the price went up as soon as the Dems won the erection? Yada yada yada. They should capture 10,000 of the 20 million illegals and out them to work building it. That would cut the costs down, way down.

Nothing like free labor!

[streetpreacher]

Good on your history; now study logic.