Posted on 11/09/2015 12:15:45 PM PST by Coronal
A faltering project backed by Arizona legislators to construct privately funded fencing on the border with Mexico has officially seen its final days.
State lawmakers will decide Monday what to do with the $265,000 that was collected for the nearly five- year-old plan.
Republican backers of the 2011 legislation hoped to collect as much as $50 million in donations for the project.
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Congress and Prez. Geo. W. Bush funded and built it, didn't they? (/sarcasm)
Hold on to that money. Trump will be along to help.
This is the first I heard of this effort to collect private funds to build a wall.
“Hold on to that money. Trump will be along to help.”
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We break ground in less than 15 months.
As soon as Enrique’s check clears.
Or let him hold onto it now, he could generate some interest.
This is the first I heard of this effort to collect private funds to build a wall.
This is what I was thinking. Perhaps they should use that money as seed money for advertising? Beyond that, why does it have to be private? Why can't the state just start building a fence?
Surely they waste enough money on other crap.
I am sure they do waste a lot of money but every dime is somebody’s bread and butter.
Try to slice a little out of somebody’s pie and you had better be wearing your industrial strength hearing protection because there will be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Once government gives something it is never taken away easily.
Possibly the worst Executive Order Obama has written is the one cancelling the work requirement for welfare recipients. It took a lot of politicking to get that requirement and it was very successful.
Same here - and I've lived in the state 10 years.
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