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To: ovrtaxt
That's $568.18 per foot.

What a complete llllllliiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeee!

I can prove the materials and labor do not cost that much for that amount of built wall.
14 posted on 05/21/2006 5:08:11 AM PDT by starbase (Understanding Written Propaganda (click "starbase" to learn 22 manipulating tricks!!))
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To: starbase

I know!! But when the US Government is doing it...

Now, these figures are high, because they are lifted from the costs of the Israeli wall. Here, we wouldn't have landmines and all the bells & whistles.

But that's okay- let em take the high estimate and compare it to the social costs. It just makes the economic point more powerfully, because it pales in comparison regardless.


27 posted on 05/21/2006 5:18:46 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (My donation to the GOP went here instead: http://www.minutemanhq.com/hq/index.php)
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To: starbase
I can prove the materials and labor do not cost that much for that amount of built wall.

Using Mexican labor.

32 posted on 05/21/2006 5:24:30 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: starbase
I can prove the materials and labor do not cost that much for that amount of built wall.

You forget - this estimate is from the Federal Goverment - you know, the ones who spend $500 for a $12 Wal-Mart hammer and $2K for a toilet seat.... By the time the appropriate kick-backs are paid to interested parties, then the cost goes up to AT LEAST $568.18 (remember - government contracts always under-estimate the costs).

44 posted on 05/21/2006 5:29:16 AM PDT by TheBattman (Islam (and liberalism)- the cult of Satan and a Cancer on Society)
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To: starbase

Remember.....
This is GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING here...

Prevailing Wage, environmental impact studies, endless paperwork, fees, permits, graft, lobbying, prefferred supplier, and minority set-asides all have to be included in the costs, lawsuits.....

The average person doesn't deal with all of that (and more) when putting up a fence......


182 posted on 05/21/2006 11:10:43 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Liberalism- What A Pagan Religion......)
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