Posted on 08/31/2015 6:24:54 AM PDT by jimbo123
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush says his fellow 310 million Americans just can’t build a wall along the 2,000-mile border with Mexico.
“What Donald Trump is proposing is a wall that can’t be built,” Bush said in a Sunday radio interview with John Catsimatidis on New York’s AM 970.
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Bush’s “We Can’t Do It,” mantra contrasts with Trump’s “Make American Great Again” slogan. So far, the public seems to prefer Trump’s confident vision to Bush’s passive, pessimistic vision. A new poll of Iowa voters shows that 23 percent of voters support Trump, and six percent support Bush.
However, immediately after Bush declared a wall can’t be built, he also contradicted himself by saying construction of a wall would cost “billions.”
“If it was [built], it would cost hundreds of billions of dollars,” he insisted.
Bush’s calculations predict that each mile of border fence would cost at least $100 million to construct.
It appears Bush may have exaggerated the cost of the wall that can’t be built. Experience shows that walls are much simpler to build than spaceships and rockets, nuclear weapons, or a huge military. In fact, the Government Accountability Office concluded in 2009 that the most ambitious border wall under consideration would cost $5.1 million per mile.
Trump is a construction professional, and he predicts a lower cost than “hundreds of billions.”
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Let’s see now...
Home Depot estimates that a linear foot of chain link fence costs about $20 — installed.
A mile is 5280 feet.
Therefore, a mile-long section of chain link fence would cost about $105,600.
2000 miles of chain link fence would cost $211,200,000 - installed.
Now, if you install three such fences in parallel, put razor wire between those fences, then your cost should still be LESS THAN 1 BILLION DOLLARS.
Unless you are a Republi-CAN’T
2016 Campaign Slogans
Trump: Make America Great Again!
Jeb: We Can’t Do It.
Hillary: What Difference Does It Make?
No Se Puede!
Nice! LOL!
I am a life-long bookkeeper.
It is painfully obvious that Jeb Bush isn’t.
Works for me.
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