Posted on 02/10/2017 10:28:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I would love to see two huge machines, one working west, the other heading east. These machines would be essentially mobile 3d concrete machines with tracks as large or larger than the Saturn V transporter.
Few complained when Obama and RINO congress spent over $9 trillion over the last eight years. $21 billion is a bargain.
Better ROI than the Big Dig, which cost more.
Good idea! Start where there is high traffic and go from there.
In the meantime, rotate ALL of the state’s national guard units along the border to do training and to just be there.
MFO
Good idea! Start where there is high traffic and go from there.
In the meantime, rotate ALL of the state’s national guard units along the border to do training and to just be there.
MFO
PBS and NPR get $400+ million federal dollars a year.
Don’t flame, please, just thinking out loud...
How about an offer of a job to each illegal alien who volunteers to help build the wall. Designate it “community service” or offer a nominal pay for sustenance, and require a minimum time spent in the work with satisfactory work reviews. Having completed all requirements, offer a green card. Failure to comply means deportation.
The idea is that they pay a price (X hours of community service) for illegal entry, at least equivalent to the price paid by people seeking to enter legally.
People are missing a larger point: By the time Trump is finished revamping our broken immigration system, we won’t NEED the thing to be finished.....heh...(still want it tho’)....
Who Cares what the wall Cost?
Take the money from the Congressional Benefits and Retirement package(s), or better yet ..... The Ex President
retirement packages, and just get started.
Trust me here, once the Congress and Elected officials find out their Benefit package is funding part of the wall, — there will be ample funding available.
Just BUILD IT! Get this one DONE!
GO TRUMP GO!
Don’t tell me Problems..... Tell me solutions!
You took the words out of mouth! That is the first thing I thought when I read the headline!
$21B??? SH!T, triple that MF’er up for EXTRA security and I’m STILL happy of the pay-out.
The reduction in annual costs to the TAXPAYERS will be worth EVERY penny.
‘Bout time we had a President whom cared about the People. Guess, for some, it’s an eye opener what can happen when you don’t elect lawyers\politicians
I have to remind myself, however, that I don’t know how Trump could have or maybe even can now, can be forthright about this and still have popular support for building the wall. Either that or he miscalculated and would have enough support for the wall even if he laid out the gambit with Mexico and the American consumer.
I guess if he laid it all out on the table now before America, it’d look bad because he hadn’t done that during the campaign. Nothing and no one is perfect. In Trump we’ve got the best IMO.
“If”?
You can write the check one time, because gawd knows how long a tariff will go on, and on, and on.....
Let’s discuss Avocados. If sales of avocado dropped you would have a lot of pissed off Mexicans.
Gypsum? Gets worse.
Here is real kicker.
The U.S. accounts for some $300 billion of Mexico’s $1.2 Trillion GDP.
If we only tariff $100 Billion of those goods, that’s nearly 8% of their economy.
Let’s pretend Trump gets 8 years. That is likely a tariff increase for 6 years and No Bueno para negocios pero muy mal los Mexicanos.
That’s 6 years of tariffs on $100 billion at 20% or $120 billion.
The reality is there will be a minimum 30% reduction of imports, so we only get $90 billion but, they still get pissed off citizens and many who will be unemployed.
Wall is paid for, Border Patrol gets new toys and Christmas bonus.
Bad for them and with their current inflation, as well, price increases for intra-country fuel, they are already seeing pockets of protests
They just raised their interests rates, which no one in the world is doing, so that is making the cost of doing business even more expensive.
One payment costs less than the other...
I’m in my mid 50’s.
When I was 8 I visited my cousin in Lindsay, CA (Olives, etc). They were prosperous.
The neighbor down the street was hispanic and wealthy - I met the son and he was started ragging about America and the Viet Nam war, not in a supportive way. I gave him a lecture that made my cousin turn speechless.
From that day I have wanted a wall to be built to keep hateful, American hating people out of MY!!!! country.
Peace to you this day my FRiend.
I bet it comes in under budget and ahead of time.
Someone remind me again how much Obama sent to the Mullahs of Iran just last year?
How much did Hillary “lose” at the State Department?
Just GET IT DONE!
“Use non-union labor.”
Lots of ways to reduce the labor costs. Offer non-violent convicts a chance to earn reductions in their sentences for volunteering their labor. Or, make it a CCC-type jobs program - earn some money and learn a trade. These are just a couple of suggestions. I’m sure there are a lot more. People who are out of work because they lost their jobs to illegals would probably jump at the chance to put a stop to this epidemic of off-the-books labor by helping build the wall.
“The American consumer pays for it????
Just exactly what does Mexico produce that America can’t live without???????????????
“...one working west, the other heading east.”
Have a BIG celebration when they come together. A length of golden rebar would be appropriate!!
21 billion, 1 month illegals freebies ?
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