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DHS: Border wall will cost over $21 billion to build
Hotair ^ | 02/10/2017 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 02/10/2017 10:28:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind
Then save the remote dry desert areas for last, and spend the original $12 billion in the densely populated areas.

-PJ

41 posted on 02/10/2017 10:52:40 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Jim 0216

A tariff on Mexican goods will result in lower and slower sales of their goods.

They will then be forced to accept they are paying, one way or the other....

Be faster to write a check and be done with it....


42 posted on 02/10/2017 10:54:01 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: SeekAndFind

Less than 1/3 the cost of the California Train To Nowhere, and for that you actually get something for your money!


43 posted on 02/10/2017 10:55:16 AM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah but what are the annual costs per year for illegal aliens? I say even if it were 50 billion there would be a savings in the long term.


44 posted on 02/10/2017 10:55:52 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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At 1,250 miles, that works out to $3,182 per linear foot. I don’t know how high or wide they are going to build it, but that sounds expensive when you consider the “volume discount” that should be factored in to a job like this.

Maybe some FReepers with concrete construction experience can chime in...


45 posted on 02/10/2017 10:56:13 AM PST by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: donozark

Being a Federal Project I’m not sure they could compel the Federal Government to employ only union labor workers.


46 posted on 02/10/2017 10:58:34 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Henchster

Throw in another billion.... let’s paint it gold!


47 posted on 02/10/2017 10:58:45 AM PST by Hogblog
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To: SeekAndFind

WORTH EVERY LAST CENT!!!!


48 posted on 02/10/2017 11:02:56 AM PST by MNGal
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama wasted 100’s of billions on Green Energy/Jobs with absolutely nothing to show for it


49 posted on 02/10/2017 11:03:11 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: SeekAndFind

Does that include the mine field, or is that extra? Either way, it is cheap.


50 posted on 02/10/2017 11:03:36 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: FlingWingFlyer

A young woman is helping me with filing legal papers. She had been recently employed in admissions by our large hospital system in our city and speaks good Spanish. She quit because she said the people coming in were just crazy, probably 90% of them were not paying!


51 posted on 02/10/2017 11:04:00 AM PST by Antipolitico
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t care if it’s $200B. Mexico pays. 200 feet high, embedded 30 feet into bedrock (I don’t care if we have to dig down 100 feet before we hit bedrock), gun towers every 50 yards, 30 feet thick of reinforced concrete, the best there is. LOL! I don’t know what I’m talking about, but you get the idea. I want the Bradley tank of Cadillac walls!


52 posted on 02/10/2017 11:05:10 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: Antipolitico

Wow. That’s sad.


53 posted on 02/10/2017 11:05:48 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: SeekAndFind

Money well spent - should’ve spent it years ago....


54 posted on 02/10/2017 11:06:46 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Vendome

That’s a big “IF”. IF Mexico folds and writes a check. Maybe they will and maybe they won’t. They certainly don’t have to. Unless and until that happens, American consumers will be writing the checks if they want to buy goods from Mexico. Demand will go down, but SOMEBODY has figured out that there will still be enough demand and sales to American consumers to pigeonhole $21 billion from the tariffs to build the wall.

I like Trump but he’s not being forthright about this and that kind of pisses me off.


55 posted on 02/10/2017 11:10:20 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: SeekAndFind

Worth every penny!


56 posted on 02/10/2017 11:10:53 AM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think it should be about 20 feet wide with jail cells through-out. Go ahead and spend 100bil.


57 posted on 02/10/2017 11:15:41 AM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: SeekAndFind

After the corrupt MSM cheered Obama for wasting nearly a trillion dollars for mythical shovel-ready jobs, suddenly there is manufactured concern over spending $21 billion on an actual physical asset that will provide jobs and protect the country.

Once again, liberals deploy their selective outrage and concern.


58 posted on 02/10/2017 11:18:28 AM PST by Obadiah (Democrats continue to wage their crusade against normal.)
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59 posted on 02/10/2017 11:19:27 AM PST by Bobalu (See liberal MSM heads explode...make Milo Yiannopoulos Trump's Press Secretary!)
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s $17.3 million per mile. That’s just some Obama aparatchik blowing smoke.


60 posted on 02/10/2017 11:19:46 AM PST by DaxtonBrown
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