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[Diablos]

The GOP isn't going to greenlight this... right?

Right?

 

[BoboBrazil]

The GOP isn't going to greenlight this... right?

Right?

Does it hurt people? Yes? Republicans vote yes.

Does it help people other than rich white people? Yes? Republicans vote no.

 

[Host Samurai]

Too bad it will only stand for 6 months. Seems like a monument waste of money for something that will be knocked down.

 

[UtterlyPerplexed]

Yeah, 3.5 years, sure. Just not Earth years.

 

[rokkerkory]

Great job wasting our $$

 

[Escape Goat]

Great job wasting our $$

Mexicos money

 

[Kyzer]

It could be 50b by the end of the project and he will still grasp at a new reality. "Its huge, I mean, talk about a wall, it's so huge and so big. And we did it under what some people said the budget was gonna be!"

 

[GabeTheGrouch76]

The final cost is probably going to cost three times as much. Maybe five times as much when factoring maintenance and potential lawsuits that may be waged over issues related to it.

What a complete waste of resources.

 

[Dai101]

Mexicos money

 

[riotous]

That's a lot of Pesos, Mexico better start saving.

 

[hiptanaka]

The party of small government, everyone.

 

[Demoskinos]

What a fine fine use of money that couldn't be put back into other things like healthcare or improving infrastructure or education or you know like... fucking anything other than a fucking wall.

 

[Famassu]

Thats not as expensive as I thought, but still a waste of funds.

Smaller projects go overbudget by hundreds of millions of dollars and break many deadlines pretty easily. Considering how massive of an undertaking this would be, all kinds of complications can probably raise that budget much, much higher.

 

[Permanently A]

Who cares how much it costs? After all, Mexico is gonna pay for it.

 

[Fenderputty]

Done Keynesian spending!

It would be nice if he spent it on something useful, like bridges or roads and shit. Digging holes and fillIng them up again might be as useless as this wall fence

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

But fuck welfare and healthcare right?

And our allies.

And our minorities.

And our trade.

And our reputation.

And our dollar.

And...

It would be nice if he spent it on something useful, like bridges or roads and shit. Digging holes and fillIng them up again might be as useless as this wall fence

We're supposedly getting some of that, but you know, pleasure before business.

 

[NullPointer]

$21.6 billion project that is defeated by someone with a ladder.

There's no ladder going over that.

If they ever get up there they're in trouble.

Because there's no way to get down.

*shrug* Maybe a rope ...

 

[Slayven]

Smaller projects go overbudget by hundreds of millions of dollars and break many deadlines pretty easily. Considering how massive of an undertaking this would be, all kinds of complications can probably raise that budget much, much higher.

I am probably miss remembering this, but isn't there a train tunnel in new york or Boston they been building for 30 years?

 

[TheAbsolution]

Just the environmental reviews and emininent domain suits would take years and years. I call BS.

 

[Paracelsus]

 

[aeolustl]

Man, imagine one of those billions is used for R&D in NOAA and/ or NASA ...

 

[rekameohs]

So it'll be $75 billion

 

[necrosis]

Omg,this thing is actually gonna be made isn't it? 😣

nope

 

[Stumpokapow]

Or a boat or a tunnel.

or a plane ticket, which is actually how most people illegally enter the country

 

[G0523]

Yeah, 3.5 years. Because we all know construction always meets their deadlines.

Too bad that money isn't being used somewhere else. Like, literally ANYWHERE ELSE.

 

[Beartruck]

Worth repeating again: The freedom tower took a decade, and we WANTED that.

 

[Cess007]

Hope you all enjoy paying for that wall, 'cause I'm sure as hell we won't be the ones footing the bill

 

[SilentRacoon]

Are they hiring immigrants to build it? Because I'm not seeing any americans willing to do the job.

 

[Generalpsyduck]

I doubt they will even start construction in 3.5 years. Don't structures that large require years of planning?

 

[Smiles and Cries]

we shpuld just build a bridge to Russia instead

 

[jackal27]

Wow John Oliver was pretty dang close huh? Remember when Trump said 8 billion? Lol.

I still can't believe this is happening

Omg Eric it's YOU!

 

[MIMIC]

How will Mexico finance this? I guess they'll just have to sell their country.

 

[Generalpsyduck]

How will Mexico finance this? I guess they'll just have to sell their country.

Well Trump has thrown out annexation as a probability so...

 

[mo60]

So trump's first term in office will pretty much be done by the time this wall is built. Wow.

 

[Futurevoid]

So trump's first term in office will pretty much be done by the time this wall is built. Wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&persist_app=1&v=BnvzZ7NpLCQ

 

[newjeruse]

Worth repeating again: The freedom tower took a decade, and we WANTED that.

Nah, we didn't.

 

[Prototype Viktor]

Did they include cost of monitoring the wall
Scanning for tunnels
Painting and repairs over time

What does it work out in cash per illegal immigrant that crosses each year?

The wall will be built using apartment complexes, charge rent and make the money back in 34 years

 

[Snowybreak]

This will go billions over budget and take 8 years minimum. Also, it won't keep out immigrants and will be even less effective keeping out drugs.

 

[Xe4]

Nah, we didn't.

Yes, we did. The majority of Americans supported the Freedom Tower's development. Not so for the wall.

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

Nope

I demand a life-size sculpture of Mister Chief if you're wrong.

I doubt they will even start construction in 3.5 years. Don't structures that large require years of planning?

Planning isn't this administration's thing.

 

[old manatee]

I keep getting the creeping feeling that the Huge Wall is going to be the only steady work in the coming decades.

 

[CrunchyFrog]

Thats not as expensive as I thought, but still a waste of funds.

That's because there's no fuckin way this report is accurate. Not a chance in hell this will be done in less than a term, and it will DEFINITELY go way over that budget when it does. Plus, you'd need years just to actually plan a project of this size, let alone build it (but I suppose that's giving the Trump administration the benefit of the doubt in regards to doing any legitimate preparatory work instead of trying to pull it out of their ass, which would DEFINITELY lead to overbudget and overdue)

 

[notaskwid]

Might as well make 51 gold Trump statues and put one in the capital of each State and D.C. with that money.

 

[K.Jack]

Next, we find out that a company wins the contract before the bidding even starts, and this companay just happens to involve some of those in Trump's staff.

You know it's coming.

 

[Roo]

Everytime Trump threatens us our Peso gets devaluated more and this asshole wants Mexico to pay $20 billion for that stupid crap? With the Peso as it is in part because of him? Good luck with that!

Not saying you're wrong but the peso has been making some progress/recovery lately despite what the orange Oompa Loompa has been saying. Ealier last moth the dollar was sitting at $22.80 but now it's at $20.30 something.

Granted, we won't be anywhere near 2014 that was at $13 anytime soon (if ever again lol) but if the goverment starts doing some active investment outside the US to break the heavy dependance, things shouldn't be as dark as some were predicting when the baby hands troll took office.

 

[GK86]

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[Bishman]

The wall ain't happening. It is all a metaphor.

 

[KHarvey16]

The wall ain't happening. It is all a metaphor.

It certainly is a metaphor. His supporters just don't realize what for yet.

 

[PinkCrayon]

What an unbelievable waste of resources.

 

[RinsFury]

I'll be there to help knock it down in four years. Maybe I'll hold on to a chunk to toss throw a window at Trump Tower.