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I laugh when some people say "Trump hasn't built the wall. He lied!" My neighbor in the next street has been building a four feet tall cement block wall around his front yard. It's a small yard. Three weeks and they are just finishing cementing all the cinder blocks. They still have to apply some sort of slurry to smooth and finish the surface, then paint and restore the part of the yard in front and behind the wall that they dug out. Multiply that by how many miles of the southern border?
I did 50 feet x 5 feet retaining wall by myself in one day. Your neighbor must be old.
I'm fine with tax payer money being used for the wall. It's an investment that pays for itself.
Of course, if we didn't have ****** politicians, we wouldn't need a wall. But for some reason, our ******* politicians won't allow our laws to be enforced.
But that's exactly it. Until politicians get serious about enforcing common sense laws, the wall is only a cosmetic solution. People can still continue to get in as visitors/temp labor, and then get cozy and make themselves at home, and politicians will still continue to look the other way and whistle.
If anything, the wall is a good way to pacify people so that politicians can continue their shady business as usual.
What works for "Habitat for Humanities" could work for the wall. Heck, practically everyone I know and am related to would donate some time to put it up. I'm not mechanically inclined, but I'd donate time cooking for the masses...
Trump Threatens Government Shutdown Over Border Wall Funding
President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to bring the U.S. government to the brink of a shutdown if needed to pressure Congress into funding the border wall that was a centerpiece of his 2016 campaign. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...der-wall-funds
How many times did he say Mexico was going to pay for the wall? Course I had sense enough to know
that was total BS!
Actually I don't care if my tax dollars goes towards the wall. I'd rather it go there then into the pockets of those abled body residents who don't work for a living.
Why pay for a wall when we could implement e-verify, enforce it and start fining employers?
Oh I forgot , that makes too much sense.
#goplikesthecheaplabor
#demslikethevotes
Let's do that too. But everyone can't be e-verified, & not everyone is on "the grid".
But according to the FEDs today (and half the country & lots of socialists who post on this board,) .....everyone is entitled to free meals, cheap places to live, free health care & free education for the kids for 13-18 years. (That's 10-12K per kid, per year, for 13-18 years. Jeesh).
We're 20 Trillion Dollars in debt. So build the d*mn wall too. Build all of it, or 1/2 of it or 1/3 of it & drone the rest....I don't care. But stop the flood & start building.
I don't want any tax dollars of mine going toward the wall. I will be giving my feedback to my 2 US Senators and 1 US Rep. So when they are voting on this matter, they will know how their constituents feel on the matter.
I don't want illegals entering the country. But I realize a wall isn't the proper solution and it's a waste of money. These days, 60% of illegal immigrants arrive into the US legally, then they overstay their visas and become illegals. The wall won't stop them. Most that arrive into the US via illegal border crossing in Mexico, they are getting smuggled across the border in trucks and vans and they are passing through the check points; the wall won't stop this type of entry either.
Lastly, the wall is old technology. People will be able to use rope ladders and nail-in handholds and footholds to climb the wall. You know - those little pegs used for indoor wall climbing recreation. The handholds/footholds can be kept in someone's pocked, then nailed into the wall in a few minutes for an easy climb.
Also, drones will be more common in the next few years and people will be able to get over the wall via a drone. There will be Mexican 'coyotes' that bring people across one at a time on a 2-person drone. They'll keep going back and forth hauling people over the wall.
They aren't being enforced, which is why a wall is needed.
Then fire the people not doing their job,BS on me paying for a wall I don't want and the country does not need.
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