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Trump orders wall to be built on Mexico border
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I get around, over and through walls all the time. Just sayin'
 (January 26, 2017 at 1:28 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: For those who support the wall... If American workers are hired to build it, this would be a great investment to put Americans to work and the money would be reinvested in the local economies. Or Mexico could build it and put their citizens to work to help build their local economy. This is just the start of infrastructure spending and putting citizens back to work and building local economies. It's ironic because Mexico is building their own wall to keep migrants from traveling through Mexico into the US, so not only would our wall help the US, it would help Mexico. It's a win win situation! Mexico builds its own wall against migrants Pressure builds for measures to stem flow of refugees from the south heading for US https://www.ft.com/content/c316294a-7915...7294649b28  (January 26, 2017 at 1:55 pm)scoobysnack Wrote:(January 26, 2017 at 1:28 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: For those who support the wall... What a moron.  (January 26, 2017 at 1:55 pm)scoobysnack Wrote:(January 26, 2017 at 1:28 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: For those who support the wall... To clarify, are you saying then that the wall is a good idea only because it would give people a job while they build it? If so, is it reasonable to pay billions to build useless things only so that people will get paid doing it?
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-walsh  RE: Trump orders wall to be built on Mexico border
January 26, 2017 at 2:04 pm
(This post was last modified: January 26, 2017 at 2:05 pm by FatAndFaithless.)
...Aren't the majority of illegal immigrants simply here on expired work visas or something of that type? Meaning they entered the country legally? How would a wall stop that?
And how would it stop...y'know, planes?
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- Thomas Jefferson RE: Trump orders wall to be built on Mexico border
January 26, 2017 at 2:09 pm
(This post was last modified: January 26, 2017 at 2:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
LOL, the wall-as-infrastructure. Sure.....just as soon as we get the roads and bridges and grids handled....we can build a wall to separate nitwits from whatever portion of reality they fear.
There's clearly no point in asking how the wall would work, no one cares - certainly not the trumpsters. It's not meant, primarily, to keep people out, it's meant to keep them -in-..... their comfort bubble. There are barbarians raping and pillaging, so we need a wall, and whatever we have to do to get that wall is just what we have to do. We have to do something!
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 (January 26, 2017 at 2:03 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(January 26, 2017 at 1:55 pm)scoobysnack Wrote: If American workers are hired to build it, this would be a great investment to put Americans to work and the money would be reinvested in the local economies. Or Mexico could build it and put their citizens to work to help build their local economy. This is just the start of infrastructure spending and putting citizens back to work and building local economies. Scoobysnack isn't exactly the brightest person on the planet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of...ken_window Quote:The parable of the broken window was introduced by Frédéric Bastiat in his 1850 essay Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas (That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen) to illustrate why destruction, and the money spent to recover from destruction, is not actually a net benefit to society. The parable, also known as the broken window fallacy or glazier's fallacy, seeks to show how opportunity costs, as well as the law of unintended consequences, affect economic activity in ways that are "unseen" or ignored.  (January 26, 2017 at 2:03 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(January 26, 2017 at 1:55 pm)scoobysnack Wrote: If American workers are hired to build it, this would be a great investment to put Americans to work and the money would be reinvested in the local economies. Or Mexico could build it and put their citizens to work to help build their local economy. This is just the start of infrastructure spending and putting citizens back to work and building local economies. Exactly! We could just employ people on taxpayer dollars to dig random ditches. It would be about as useful. Hey look, the Mexican President has cancelled the meeting with Trump http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38760671 Guess he won't be bullied into paying for this stupid project so easily.
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So we have money to spend on a useless wall... but we have no money to spend on healthcare, education, the arts, the environment, or grants for violence against women? Get the fuck out of here fuckwits.
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