The people who say that the wall will cost $10B-$12B are the same kind of people as the ones in the Bush administration who thought the Iraq War was going to cost no more than a yearly subscription to HBO.
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Walls donāt work. History shows this.
Hadrianās Wall did not work.
The Great Wall of China did not work.
The Maginot Line did not work.
Fortress Europe did not work.
The Berlin Wall did not work.
Fixed Fortifications never work. You can go over them, around them, under them, or through them.
They are a waste of time and effort when you take into account the population size you wish to exclude.
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The real reason the wall wonāt fly is cost. It will cost hundreds of billions or maybe trillions for the full length of the border and given the drug cartelās tunneling capabilities probably wonāt stop a damn thing.
Alert. Your snark meter needs adjusting.
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But, like pyramids, they are expensive public works projects that generate a lot of good jobs.
Of course here in America we need to spend at least as much on roads, water supplies and other infrastructure construction just to remain first world.
The two words you need are āobvious bullshitā, but the Bundys who support Trump are swallowing it with enthusiasm.
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O beautiful for spacious skies,
Up there above the wall,
For purple mountain majesties
We cannot see at all!
America! America! Trump walled us in but good,
And brought us angry bigotry
Where once a nation stood!
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Yeah. Not sure that came out the way I wanted itā¦
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Dammit - Iām stealing that. Pissed off that I didnāt think of it first.
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What is the point of even discussing this? Even if Trump were somehow elected, Congress is not going to approve funding for something like this, regardless of who is in control.
There canāt be more than 1/3 of the border that isnāt mountainous.
And forcing the Mexican government to foot the bill wonāt be easy
Good fucking FSM. Try impossible.
Why not say āwe are going to tax all foreigners living abroadā and speculate on how feasible that would be to collect?
Is the MSM congenitally stupid?
Trump doesnāt care about those pesky treaties. Heās gonna get his way by sheer force of personality. Heās used to yes-men saying yes sir and doesnāt have a clue about how the world of government works.
This article and your comment both try an apply reason to a proposal by a Presidential hopeful, but both assume the audience this proposal is directed to can be reasoned withā¦ sigh.
Iād also suggest checking out the movie āMonstersā. It shows a Maginot Line-like wall constructed on our border to keep the alien āmonstersā outā¦ until you look more closely and it shows the wall is unmanned, full of holes, and abandoned years before. Outside of the metaphorical quality of the story, itās great science fiction made for under $30,000, literally.
Of course the wall is b.s. So is ābringing jobs back from China and Mexicoā. Imposing tariffs is forbidden under GATT and a trade war would end up wrecking the world economy. Just Google Smoot-Hawley. There is not a single Trump campaign promise that would be kept. Nor are they intended for that purpose.
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Someone I work with the other day mentioned Trumps wall and laughed even harder when I mentioned a tunnel!
If he did get elected, no way he builds a wall. He will come out and say āI meant a wall full of names of people I deportā or some other nonsense. Heās an ass clown.
On NPR the other day they interviewed some Congressman from PA who has endorsed Trump (donāt remember his name). He weaseled out of the question by saying āThis is 2016, walls can be electronic.ā The reporter pointed out that there is already a ton of electronic surveillance, including drones, on the border, and his response was, āWell, theyāll add more agents.ā OKā¦
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Iām surprised he did not say āweāll add more voltage!!!āā¦ Morons.
Heās an ass clown. Thatās why all these Hitler comparisons are a joke. Hitler was a dead serious person with a depraved agenda. Trump is putting on a marketing show so that his TV gigs and licensing agreements will be going full tilt boogie after the election is over. He has established a great TV viewing base, and a great market for license products. But heās not going to be President.
What, someone actually took Drumpf nonsense about the Great Wall of America seriously? Surely you must be jestingā¦