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Build a raised high speed rail train on the southern border. The left get their train that wont be used and the right get their wall.
Oh, it would be used. That idea would probably float in more enlightened times.
You wouldn't believe the amount of Texans here in Florida...and they often have to drive back and forth.
Of course, the train would have to be extra fast since the line is so curved.....ideally, high speed trains would be next to the larger interstates, etc......perfect setup.
Im thinking about all the past HUGE construction projects, like the Hoover dam, interstate highways, some of the larger bridges, etc. those projects drew people from all over the country, all coming to get the labor jobs they offered, long lines of people waiting to sign up and go to work, many of them having no experience in construction at all, and yet they saw an opportunity and moved their entire families to the area, just for this purpose.
Some of these people probably spent the last bit of money they had to get to the area, and probably didnt know a single person in the area, jumping headfirst into the unknown for the chance at a good job!
Thats how this wall should be constructed imo, put out a nationwide call for workers, with experience or without, just get there, sign up and go to work!
This could create entire new cities and towns in the process too.
You do that during times of high unemployment. Not during times of full employment.
And those projects served a purpose...
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Well, the 'shovel ready' jobs Ive seen in my area over the years did not attract workers from other states, they were mostly calling for workers with experience in construction, or heavy equipment, and or had to go thru a long hiring process, I was mainly talking about past BIG projects where workers would just come and sign up and immediately go to work, they werent interested in their past or what experience they had, they just wanted bodies/worker bees.
Skill requirements have gotten higher. We use more equipment instead of bodies.
Automation, even of highway construction, would pooh-pooh any large job efforts. Back in the CCC days, they actually used a lot of shovels. But they did some massive good works. Most of them are part of our world today. I often see the brass markers embedded in the concrete (sea walls, etc.).
I guess that is one reason FDR is rated in the top 4 POTUS of all time.
Im thinking about all the past HUGE construction projects, like the Hoover dam, interstate highways, some of the larger bridges, etc. those projects drew people from all over the country, all coming to get the labor jobs they offered, long lines of people waiting to sign up and go to work, many of them having no experience in construction at all, and yet they saw an opportunity and moved their entire families to the area, just for this purpose.
Some of these people probably spent the last bit of money they had to get to the area, and probably didnt know a single person in the area, jumping headfirst into the unknown for the chance at a good job!
Thats how this wall should be constructed imo, put out a nationwide call for workers, with experience or without, just get there, sign up and go to work!
This could create entire new cities and towns in the process too.
What you’re saying is “build it and people will come” except the wall is no “Field of Dreams”.
It appears to me that what you want to do is submit yet another justification to give a coveted toy to the toddler in the WH.
We already have dying towns and decaying cities in this country. There are people already living there. Let us do something about those first.
Talk to Ann Coulter and Rush. They are in charge. They must approve.
Personally, I can think of many other infrastructure projects--projects that don't involve hundreds of lawsuits initiated by landowners whose property is being taken by the government.
I have to imagine there were alot of people who said the same thing when the interstate highways were built too!!
Make it Solar with weed production on the right of way and you'll get some converts.
Add in some dispensing of free Pizza baked in Solar Ovens and the vote will swing....beer would definitely tilt things (in more ways than one) and putting Big Screen TV's on the American side with free HBO...done deal.
You do that during times of high unemployment. Not during times of full employment.
And those projects served a purpose...
Skill requirements have gotten higher. We use more equipment instead of bodies.
LOTS of people all over the country making minimum wage jobs, Im sure they would jump at the chance to sign up for some big project like this, even move their entire family to the area for the chance.
Securing the border is a pretty big purpose imo, the heroin epidemics alone have destroyed 10s of 1000s lives, these drugs just keep flowing in year after year after year.
While we do use more heavy equipment today, there are many areas in the southwest that big equipment cannot be used due to the terrain/topography, look at some of the ancient BIG projects, Puma Punku, the pyramids, they relied on 100s of 1000s of workers, even building on mountains, we could not replicate some of those structures today!
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