(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.
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
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?
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.
