Posted on 02/09/2016 12:07:05 PM PST by onyx
Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN)Donald Trump estimated on Tuesday that it will cost about $8 billion to build the wall he has promised to erect on the U.S.'s southern border if elected president.
Trump has vowed to force Mexico to pay for the border wall and said Tuesday on MSNBC that the hefty $8 billion price tag "is a tiny fraction of the money that we lose with Mexico" on trade.
"The wall is probably $8 billion, which is a tiny fraction of the money that we lose with Mexico. We lose a tremendous amount of trade deficits. We have a trade deficit with Mexico that is astronomical, much bigger than that. We will get -- and I say it also is also part of my plan -- Mexico is going to play for the wall," he said.
Trump's proposal to build a wall on the U.S.'s southern border and his hardline immigration policies have become central to the billionaire's presidential campaign. But Tuesday marked the first time he has tacked a specific dollar amount to his border wall proposal.
Trump said he came up with the figure by "multiplying the number of miles by a certain number."
"I'm taking price per square foot and price per square, you know, per mile, and it's a very simple calculation," Trump said, noting that he would need to erect about 1,000 miles of border wall along the 2,000-mile long border because of natural barriers along certain parts.
Trump's pledge to make Mexico pay for the wall drew harsh criticism just days earlier from former Mexican President Felipe Calderon.
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...and, this project is actually shovel ready, approved in the 1980’s
The laws/protocols/procedures Mexico applies to Mexico’o illegals, can be replicated in the USA
I like it!
Had excavating type logging machinery, had excavating machinery which I dug footings here in AZ till the bust.
Ran them all. JD, Cat, Fiat Allis, you name it.
Gimme a 992 and stand clear. All the spoils can go to build a berm on the American side with a channel between the berm and wall. Level the top of the berm off for a road for patrols.
Lets go..git er done.
But still Americans. Not Mexicans. And if someone wants a Ford Fusion or some of the F-150s then they have no alternative but a car manufactured in Mexico.
wants.
I agree, but it’s part of his shtick.
I don’t think he expected people to take him seriously but once they latched onto it he couldn’t walk it back.
Now he’s stuck with it.
He would have been better off saying it would cost $10B to build the wall, but we would save over $100B in welfare and services to illegals who would be deported.
Maybe after 7 years of Obama Americans really do believe in pixie farts and unicorn rainbows.
Or is that pixie rainbows and unicorn farts? I forget.
I’ve tied rod, set forms, poured and finished concrete for everything but a bridge from blazing hot to freezing cold.
You prep it we’ll form and pour it.
Let’s not forget the antipersonnel mines in the channel!
We’ll need a stockade every 10 or 15 miles. With plenty of jail cells for the unlucky few who make it across the fence and through the....umm...channel.
Go Trump !
How bout we leave a breach every so often and camo it with a funnel into a holding pen. That way we can build a trebucket and send em back over ticket free.
Actually, a overhang towards the Mexican side lined with razor wire. Not kidding about this either. The moat within the berm should be lined with something really nasty. They get over the wall somehow and its 50 feet down, onto spikes.
How long does it take to set pre cast spancrete each piece? Like they use on parking ramps?
The USA built the Empire State Building, mostly in Winter, in about 14 months.
We've built 4600 Walmarts, and thousands of Best Buys, Home Depots, and assorted other big box stores since the sixties---most of them over the last 20-30 years. Anyone think we can't build a wall on the Mexican border? They probably open a Wal Mart somewhere in the world every DAY. Ditto McDonalds, Home Depot, etc.
As Eric Trump said today, with Trump as president, people will have never before seen (in government) the SPEED OF EXECUTION we'll see.
I need to know how fast they can set that spancrete so I know how fast I need to run that excavator...dig.
I never worked with precast, but I wouldn’t think it would take too long.
Once the ground is prepped and the foundation done I imagine the precast sheets would go up pretty quickly.
The hardest part would be tying them together as they are set.
A good crane crew could set them in place quickly.
Getting them tied together would take a little longer.
IMO you would have to first build a good road to truck the precast in on.
Building the road and trucking in the precast might not be the most cost efficient.
You can build a small plant to mix the crete wherever you like.
Either way it ain’t gonna be cheap.
I like the trebuchet idea.
Fly the Friendly Skies!
Yes, a nice gentle slope to make things interesting.
If we’re going to put a moat in, I say fill it with sea water and load up the Bull sharks. They kill more people than Great Whites.
Swimming vessels of aggression that attack whatever is in their area.
I agree. As an infrastructure estimator for many years I came up with $8.1 billion for 1,000 miles of wall based on a double 30 foot high concrete wall with a paved road between, lighting, drainage and watchtowers.
Alligators and land mines would be extras.
“And if someone wants a Ford Fusion or some of the F-150s then they have no alternative but a car manufactured in Mexico.”
No alternative? Seriously?
Unless they would rather pay less for one made in Brazil or China or the US, or choose something else.
“I like the trebuchet idea.
Fly the Friendly Skies!”
But Mexico won’t pay for that, so it must be pay per view.
The road on top of the berm is the truck road. Come in, the crane takes the load off, the truck leaves. A continous line all pointed the same way.
And yup, would need a batching plant to pour the footings. I would say rebar pounded down some 20 to 30 feet into the ground. Why that far? Because them dirt bags like to tunnel and motion sensors can be hooked on that rebar.
I dont think it would be that expensive. Dam good CCC projects were done real quick back in the 30s. Even the Hoover dam was one of the greatest public works projects and that was done, I believe, ahead of schedule and under budget if I remember right.
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