Fenderputty
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That's effectively all it is even if it does happen
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(Reuters) Internal report: Trump border 'wall' to cost $21.6 billion, take 3.5 years
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That's effectively all it is even if it does happen
Four years from now we will be.
Laevateinn
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Boston's Big Dig cost this much and took decades. That amount of money will be spent before the first brick is laid.
Is it just gonna be fences ? Oh I was hoping for something more along these lines.
We be reaching for the stars with that wall!
Don't worry, in due time, you'll get a cool ice wall on the Canada-US border.
The tallest, most beautiful and un-jumpable or un-underdiggable wall ever created. Higher than the chinese one! That one is sad!
Twilight Gap
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It'll probably be cheaper to hire bugs bunny to saw mexico off.
gutter_trash
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planes fly over walls
NullPointer
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Are there any official details on how high the wall is supposed to be? Or its maximum height?
Laevateinn
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You're questioning the size of the wall? The wall just got 10 feet higher.
MiloHoffman
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It won't be built under the Trump presidency even if he manages 8 years. Firstly people's property extend right to the boarder in some places and the Government either have to buy the land or seize it in a compulsory purchase order if that is a thing in the US. If going through Texas it might be a problem with its laws on property rights.
paperspace
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How much to remove it?
SpaceCadetKeon
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$21.6 billion to build the wall / 63 million trump voters ~ $343 each, not tax deductible. Pay up, bitches.
BoboBrazil
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I support this. Trump voters need to shoulder the cost if they want a bullshit wall. I bet you will suddenly find alot less people for it.
That's actually an interesting question... say the wall does get built and the Democrats get back in power in the white house and congress (hypothetically speaking), would they actually demolish it with how much (money, time etc.) already went into it?
CosmicGroinPull
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I think it would be cheapter to have a squadron of mini AI drones constantly patrolling the border.
Or you can build one giant robot with that money. Just saying.
Or you can build one giant robot with that money. Just saying.
This would be the most fantastic thing.
StrategyFan
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why ask Trump voters for $343 each when you can just ask each of the 120 million Mexicans for $181 each?
Lord_Byron28
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The thing that worries me the most is Trump's insistence that it is going to get done in 3 1/2 years. I wouldn't put it past Trump if down the road he forces illegal immigrants to build the wall. They will even get to stay at these special camps nearby the wall when they are not building the wall. He'll justify that it is cost efficient and they have to pay their dues for being in this country illegally. His base will eat it up.
Nothing. You just let Mexican Cartel take care of it.
I can see him getting his pal Joe Arpaio to oversee construction using enslaved refugees and immigrants.
With Chinese steel and cement.
AstroNut325
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How is this not a petition on the White House already?
For a non-American, can someone explain what is separating Mexico and the US right now? Surely a Mexican can't just randomly wander across the border or vice versa. There must be some kind of fencing with barbed wire etc. Is the wall really going to make much of a difference? Is it common to have border breaches?
Some of it is fenced but not all of it. And yeah, people climbing the fences is pretty common anyways.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico–United_States_border
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico–United_States_barrier
I don't get why most white ff fans are always hating on brown or mexican people. "Oh no brown people in our country oh no" etc etc like big deal, you don't like them ok so?
Yeah, I've been wondering about this for a while.
Does the next Democratic nominee pledge to tear it down no matter the cost, which leaves that nominee open to Republican attacks of wasting taxpayer money and leaving the country less safe, or leave whatever is built as is, and let "Finish the Wall" be an ongoing campaign slogan for Republicans forever?
It feels like a damned if you do damned if you don't situation, which is why I hope next to nothing gets accomplished.
jellies_two
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They could turn it into a monorail from coast to coast
I wonder how they can afford to meet that insane deadline without outsourcing some of their labour force?
We'll pay mexico to build it for us!
All of Trumps building projects were on time and on budget, it's true, look it up, folks. No taxpayer money ever wasted. So on budget, so on time.
Why do I get the feeling that Easy D will really use his business or his (former) business partners to build the wall? And that this project will drag on like the Berlin airport BER (don't look it up, it's a disgrace).
Well, he's certainly trying to look like he's going through with it. I still doubt it ever gets built.
cpp_is_king
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Given what we know about Trump, he will probably go all out, he sees the wall as a representation of himself, he wants it to be as grand as possible and will spare no expense. (Yes, that means the cost is probably way low)
The Hitl...Trump Youth
lmao
Khalifa Jayy
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The deepest tunnels!
That is the reason, btw, that Mexico sucks at the Olympics.
All the good swimmers, runners, and jumpers are already in America.
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