Why The Wall? (negative, ground, best, population)
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Instead of a wall, we could authorize citizens to resist foreign invasions. Give every man or woman who wants an M-16 or something else a free one with unlimited free ammo.
It's pretty plain that the border wall with Mexico is a survivalist program. As much as they try to deny global warming, rich people well know that it is happening, and the first areas to become uninhabitable will be the tropics. They want a defensible barrier where they can hold off tens of millions of refugees fleeing an ecological disaster. Essentially, they want to make America into a gated community.
On the fun side, wait until they try to pull eminent domain on those border ranchers. The Bundy Ranch standoff would be a Sunday school picnic by comparison. When they try to chop ranches in half, deny cattle ranchers access to the Rio Grande or cut Indian reservations in half you will see Americans in armed conflict with their government. Flying around in those black helicopters might be hazardous to your health.
Anybody who thinks we could really build a wall coast to coast for only $40 billion still believes in the tooth fairy. I worked up a quick guestimate on the project and came up with a minimum of $130 billion, and probably a max of around $300 billion. Then you have to maintain the thing. Forget the steel spike wall. The scrappers would be tearing it down behind you before it ever got built.
Meanwhile, dig those tunnels. We all know how the Great Wall worked for China. It didn't. By the time a civilization falls to invaders, it has already collapsed from within.
This has to be the funniest post I have read in a long time. Geez......
Aaand he take a hard left into Looneyland. The wall will take resources from border security and very likely will INCREASE illegal immigration. You are obsessing over a few thousand asylum seekers and ignoring the millions who walked right through a Port of Entry. How many do you think are riding in right now in the back of semi vans while the customs inspectors are laid off?
He is ignoring what never happened, and discussing reality.
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Originally Posted by oceangaia
CBP is essential services, few are laid off. Nobody is driving past unmanned entry points.
Time to start ignoring this guy, I don't know what planet he is on,
but his posts have little to do with reality.
Time to start ignoring this guy, I don't know what planet he is on,
but his posts have little to do with reality.
You and Caldwell are the ones on a different planet. Caldwell had said "How many do you think are riding in right now in the back of semi vans while the customs inspectors are laid off?" And I responded "CBP is essential services, few are laid off. Nobody is driving past unmanned entry points."
Here is the reality. No customs inspectors are laid off.
"A majority of U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees must work during the government shutdown, as 54,935 employees of its 60,109 workforce are designated as exempt."
The wall is a big, dumb symbol representing the walls in some people's brains. This is about celebrating that, and making sure everyone on earth and in hell can see it.
You guys are real Pollyannas. If you want to smuggle something across the border, pick Superbowl Sunday. Nobody will look at anything. As it is, CBP inspectors are calling in sick about as often as TSA inspectors. Nobody is getting paid, so they may as well use sick leave and try to find a way to earn a living. The ones who stay on the job make a pretty good nickel looking the other way.
All I'm really concerned about is welfare leeches (that's an after the wall issue) and crazies that shoot up gay bars and topple Trade Centers.
If I was 30 years old and just average intelligence (80% of people) I'd be concerned because if a living wage employment for the masses ever returned here, I might have to share (and compete for) that jobsite with a bunch of people who illegally came here, unvetted. I could catch TB from them working alongside me. And, who knows? They might get an order from Allah, and blow the factory up.
When my grandparents came here from Europe 110 years ago, if they had TB or no job once they got here, they were turned back. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
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