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Old 01-07-2017, 02:37 PM
 
Location: Caverns measureless to man...
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Looks like Trump's not so good at getting people to pay for all these walls he's obsessed with.

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BALMEDIE, Scotland — President-elect Donald J. Trump has already built a wall — not on the border with Mexico, but on the border of his exclusive golf course in northeastern Scotland, blocking the sea view of local residents who refused to sell their homes.

And then he sent them the bill.



http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/wo...land-wall.html

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Old 01-07-2017, 03:12 PM
 
Location: Pyongjang
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You are posting too many useless threads. Have a glass of ice water and take a break.
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Old 01-07-2017, 04:16 PM
 
Location: University City, Philadelphia
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I don't think anyone expected Mexico to pay for the useless wall. A wall will not keep illegal immigrants out.
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Old 01-07-2017, 04:54 PM
 
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They will pay indirectly through visa fees that will be increased and export fees for exporting to USA!
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Old 01-07-2017, 05:02 PM
 
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I don't think anyone expected Mexico to pay for the useless wall. A wall will not keep illegal immigrants out.
You should probably give up on this idiotic brainwashing right now. Walls are built all around the world because walls work. It is that simple.

They don't work perfectly. There are always those who find their way through, which is why is is one tool a toolbox. A long border wall in and of itself could slow illegal immigration to a level were there is parity will back migration, and then the problem is more or less 100% solved.

In conjuntion with increased border patrol, allowing the border patrol and ICE to do their jobs, a national data base, tougher laws that discipline both lawbreakers and employers, etc. The problem will be gone overnight.

The entire "it can't be done" argument is a refrain that we have heard from the left on a plethora of issues for decades now. It is the kind of pychological warfare which never really worked and had compeltely gone off the rails. You are going to have to come up with some new plays.
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Old 01-07-2017, 05:40 PM
 
Location: FL
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Looks like Trump's not so good at getting people to pay for all these walls he's obsessed with.




http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/wo...land-wall.html

"The problem, and it’s a big problem, is that Donald Trump didn’t do what he promised.”That can't be true.
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Old 01-07-2017, 05:53 PM
 
Location: Arizona
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You are posting too many useless threads. Have a glass of ice water and take a break.
Curious as to what you would define as a "useful" thread?
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Old 01-07-2017, 06:01 PM
 
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You should probably give up on this idiotic brainwashing right now. Walls are built all around the world because walls work. It is that simple.

They don't work perfectly. There are always those who find their way through, which is why is is one tool a toolbox. A long border wall in and of itself could slow illegal immigration to a level were there is parity will back migration, and then the problem is more or less 100% solved.

In conjuntion with increased border patrol, allowing the border patrol and ICE to do their jobs, a national data base, tougher laws that discipline both lawbreakers and employers, etc. The problem will be gone overnight.

The entire "it can't be done" argument is a refrain that we have heard from the left on a plethora of issues for decades now. It is the kind of pychological warfare which never really worked and had compeltely gone off the rails. You are going to have to come up with some new plays.
Haar! It's not going to be built for the same reason your immigration laws haven't been observed ...greedy Americans making a profit off cheap labour.

Senator John McCain ran up against this reality back in the good old days when the big aggra business in Arizona convinced him to "hands off" their ability to hire illegals picking stuff cheaply to offset the costs of nutrients to grow stuff in gravel.

You people are really stupid if you think Trumps going to put a spike in the spokes of the wheels that helped make him rich.
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Old 01-07-2017, 06:06 PM
 
Location: Sonoran Desert
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Trump has lied to, cheated, and is despised by almost everyone who has ever done business with him. That same thing is about to happen with the American people. There will be many opportunities for those of us who already can't stand him to say "I told you so". Making taxpayers foot the bill for his wall instead of Mexico is but the first.
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Old 01-07-2017, 06:25 PM
 
Location: FL
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Trump has lied to, cheated, and is despised by almost everyone who has ever done business with him. That same thing is about to happen with the American people. There will be many opportunities for those of us who already can't stand him to say "I told you so". Making taxpayers foot the bill for his wall instead of Mexico is but the first.
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