[Zenjitsuman]

Trump builds 90 story buildings, that is much harder to build.

Trump says he will use 44 foot prepoured pre fab concrete plank. Says wall will cost 11 billion dollars.

Mexico will pay for it. One thing he has not mentioned is we give Mexico 14 billion in foreign aid per year. So we just don’t give them the money and the wall is paid for.

[manc]

How much money do we save to pay for the wall when we send them all the Mexicans here who are illegal and those in prison?

[yadent]

There was a 4.75% increase in money sent from abroad to Mexico, most of which comes from the U.S., to total $24.8 billion US dollars last year, up from $23.6 billion in 2014, said the Bank of México.

The bank said it was the first time remittances had totaled more than petroleum revenues since it began tracking them in 1995. Oil revenues last year totaled $23.4 billion.

An important factor in the increase in remittances is the jobs created by economic recovery in the U.S.Some 11 million Mexicans are believed to be living in the U.S. and many work in construction. Remittances, 97% of which are sent electronically, averaged $292 last year. Just like we did with Cuba, place a ‘tax’ on those remittances. Enough to build the wall.

[LostPassword]

>Says wall will cost 11 billion dollars.

I’d guess some of that will go toward paying workers. We have quite a few people looking for work. Dems are always crying out for “jobs programs” and should be fine with $11 billion for jobs.

Seems like these jobs are as shovel-ready as anything Obama talked about. Especially if the person in charge says “I want it to start today and be done tomorrow”. And that sounds like the way Trump has operated for decades with success.

[DoodleDawg]

Mexico will pay for it. One thing he has not mentioned is we give Mexico 14 billion in foreign aid per year. So we just don’t give them the money and the wall is paid for.

But then we're paying for it, not Mexico.

[Parmy]

Mexico will pay for it. One thing he has not mentioned is we give Mexico 14 billion in foreign aid per year. So we just don’t give them the money and the wall is paid for.

Then there is also the 58 billion trade deficit with Mexico.

So we buy more Mexican made products than we sell to them, plus the 14 billion in give away aid.

My math says that is 72 billion that we can recover to build the wall.

There is no reason to be giving away 14 billion to a country that is rich in oil, rich in natural resources, rich in agricultural production, etc.