Posted on 05/21/2006 4:58:16 AM PDT by ovrtaxt
I'm 100% for it. The Minutemen are awesome!
Build a canal on the border while we are at it. I'm sure passage fees from shipping would pay for this real quick. These politicians have no imaginations. They can say YES YES YES to all kinds of spending but when it comes to the southern border they say NO NO NO. Makes one wonder why they are saying NO.
"If cost is really the problem, set up an account to accept donations.
I'll buy my foot of wall. "
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You can do exactly that at minutemanHQ.com - they plan to begin building a wall in a few days.
I think they should consider putting their plan on E-bay and auction individual pieces of fence - please bid on YOUR piece of the fence which will be honored with a name plaque enscribed with your name. Wouldn't that be great?
"I am sure that would be the case. In any event, the cost issue is just a smokescreen. The people who raise it have an agenda, which is do nothing to secure the border except have a virtual wall. We have heard the analogies to the Berlin Wall and the Great Wall of China to ridicule and demonize anyone who suggests that fences actually work. They should be built where it makes sense in terms of security effectiveness.
Given the demographic and economic pressures from Mexico and Latin America, it is not a matter of if physical barriers will be built, but when."
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You have said it well. The people in favor of putting a lot of bodies on the border absolutely miss the point. Bodies may work in the short term, but there is a big cost associated with lots of bodies. Put up a lasting ASSET, a fence, then the cost of enforcement will go waaaaay down and the results will go waaay up and the overall cost will become very palatable after 2 - 3 years.
Witness Israel's still young experiences with keeping the moronic, fascist crazies out of their country - how does a country measure the cost of lives lost to sadists anyway?
It won't cost that much if we use illegal invaders and prisoners to build it.
And the cost of illegal invaders in prison space, social service costs, etc, FAR outweighs any border wall.
Let's build a couple of them.
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3 million a whole mile sounds like a bargain to me.
"How many millions for each mile for Houston's downtown choo choo?"
Shall we even bring up the Swimmer's darling project - "the Big Dig?" (BTW, it leaks)
I imagine most ranchers and other rural landowners would be happy to donate the land neccessary for a wall inasmuch as their property is being trashed.
Not to mention the fact that trying to stay on their property is becoming more dangerous all the time.
I've posted several links early in the thread, which demonstrate the relative social service costs vs. a wall. The wall would be very very cheap, even at high estimates.
Indeed! And whether it's overpriced or not, at least there's a derived benefit, which is more than we can say for the wasting of most of the rest of our tax dollars.
I agree with you.
I support the wall.
Ship all the illegals down there, have them build the wall, then put them on the other side and pay them to dig a moat - two problems solved.
But we'll never do it.
Americans have bencome woman-hearted.
How about a "border wall" check off on your taxes.
Chump change...Heritage estimates the out year costs of the 'compromise plan' on welfare alone at $50 Billion a year.
Build the wall, build it quick and build it high.
Why don't we hire a contractor from Mexico so he can legally hire Mexicans? ;o)
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