Posted on 02/10/2017 10:28:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
-PJ
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....
Less than 1/3 the cost of the California Train To Nowhere, and for that you actually get something for your money!
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.
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...
Being a Federal Project I’m not sure they could compel the Federal Government to employ only union labor workers.
Throw in another billion.... let’s paint it gold!
WORTH EVERY LAST CENT!!!!
Obama wasted 100’s of billions on Green Energy/Jobs with absolutely nothing to show for it
Does that include the mine field, or is that extra? Either way, it is cheap.
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!
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!
Wow. That’s sad.
Money well spent - should’ve spent it years ago....
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.
Worth every penny!
I think it should be about 20 feet wide with jail cells through-out. Go ahead and spend 100bil.
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.
That’s $17.3 million per mile. That’s just some Obama aparatchik blowing smoke.
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