Posted on 04/17/2021 12:50:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Probably building it to keep people in. That’s what happens in all totalitarian states.
The state of Texas does not have enough money to make a second wall the entire length of the state border. It just doesn’t. And if they just made a parallel barrier in the areas unbuilt, the Federal reservation means they can’t connect it to the Trump wall, making it kind of pointless.
Federal government needs land in every state for gulags and execution grounds.
For a wall to stop us from escaping.
I dunno about that. I’m willing to bet that we do.
Texas has enough money to build a wall, there is no will because those at the top are more than willing to crush the Americans below them with massive Illegal immigration for fun and profit.
No, we don’t. Not one with the required features, not unless we impose a state income tax. That’s not happening.
Actually, we don’t - or more specifically, we just *barely* have the money for some sort of barrier, not the full 30’ kind, but we don’t have the money for the eminent domain, especially through the towns and cities. Remember, 1/8th mile back from the border is going to go through an awful lot of houses and such in towns and cities.
So they can condemn it as a permanent unprotected border opening that not even a landowner can patrol.
Texas has a border that's 1,254 miles long and 29 million citizens. That works out to 23,136 Texans per mile or 4.4 Texans per foot, or less that 3" for every Texan. I think they can afford it.
The criminals running Texas are happy keeping their social spending slush funds and not doing what is necessary to protect Texans.
As far as why you think it is too expensive for Texas build their own wall I can only guess you have a shirtless George W Bush poster in your bedroom somewhere.
To each his own. Ugh..
Uh huh. Go look at the price per foot of barrier, then go look at what the eminent domain through several border towns and cities will cost.
The price per foot of the barrier would not have to be nearly that of the federal contracting boondogles barrier. You make the mistake of factoring in massive graft like it is normal. A decent border wall shouldn't cost much more than a highway. I grew up in a mining town and I have seen whole mountains disappear and appear over a summer and it didn't take $ billions to do it if you use earth and concrete.
And yet you continue to ignore the cost of eminent domain through cities.
Get a clue. When you house is on fire you don't count the pennies you pay for water.
I will never convince you because you obviously like an open border and you will continue to throw up costs while ignoring the other costs like your sky-high Texas property tax to educate millions of illegal alien children.
Go donate to the GOP or the Democrats you obviously agree with them.
Our government opens the gates on the sly,
Flooding our cities and schools with no word why,
Happily they raise taxes to close the border,
“Don't worry.” they promise, “The fence is on order!”,
They must take care of the invaders of course,
The American citizen is then yoked like a draft horse,
Americans cannot afford to send their kids to university,
Their stolen taxes fund college's foreign diversity,
The American pays to be replaced, attacked and hated,
All for saying “The New World Order is overrated!”
So they can designate it an Endangered Species Habitat or National Heritage Site or Sacred Indian Burial Ground. Anything to make it impossible to ever protect the nation.
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