“But it is especially important to me that the GOVERNMENT build the wall.”
Why?
Don’t you understand that the money ends up in the pockets of private contractors who do the actual work whether the contracting agency is the government or a private firm?
Since that’s the case, why in the world would you want to pay the extra overhead to have government be the contracting agency when a private firm could do it for half or even a third of the cost?
That’s just an unwise waste of resources.
Also, we should not overlook the fact that, if private firms begin this construction, the federal government — recalcitrant Democrats particularly — will stand exposed on the pillory of the world, shamed by The People of this country.
They will either cave to the manifest reality that they can join FedGov with the team already on the field, or they will reveal themselves completely as the thinly-veiled tyrants they are by weaponizing the power of the Federal Government to oppose the effort; a move that would quite likely resound throughout history as the final causus belli to the Second American Civil War.
This move to build the wall on private terms FORCES the National Security issue upon FedGov. They MUST support or oppose, and they cannot oppose without acting as clear-cut domestic enemies of these United States; as out-and-out traitors to whom death becomes a bill iimmediately due and payable.
On the other hand, if some private people put up some money and construct a wall, I think it becomes very easy for some level of government to say "It's unsightly, those yahoos should never have taken the step, we hereby ordain that the local section of the wall shall be taken down."
In short: I want the Federal government to step up, aknowledge its responsibilities, deliberately create the wall and make some sort of assertion that the wall is meant to be there and should not be casually dismantled later on.
Nothing is ever permanent, but (as Reagan said) government programs are close to immortal. I'd like to use that to our advantage.