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2016-02-11 Home Front: Politix

Donald Trump Finally Puts Price Tag On "Great Wall" Of Mexico

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Posted by gorb 2016-02-11 01:53|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 If he is in charge he will do the job under cost and finish ahead of scheduled completion. Like Teddy's Calvary he will ride down to see it gets done. Bully, jolly good job, well done.

Posted by Dale 2016-02-11 06:56|| 2016-02-11 06:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Over at Instapundit the other day, it was pointed out that remittance to Mexico has reached 24B. You could pick up a good chunk of that with a 10, or 15, or 20 percent ~~tariff~~ surcharge.

Then suspend Davis-Bacon Act and use a lot of 'day laborers' to drive costs down. I like irony.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-02-11 09:14|| 2016-02-11 09:14|| Front Page Top

#3 BTW, there's a lot of graft money being made in transiting these illegals to and across the border besides helping the purer blood Spanish ruling caste of Mexico maintain its power by avoiding reform or revolution by dumping millions of their mestizos y indios upon El Norte.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-02-11 09:18|| 2016-02-11 09:18|| Front Page Top

#4 What should be done is to levy a 40% tax on all remittances to Mexico - whether it is wetbacks sending cash back home, or US companies buying cheap manufactured goods - for as long as bit takes to complete the wall. Then - extend an offer to Mexico to allow them to directly fund any portion of the cost that they wish. That leaves Mexico with two choices:

1) Contribute nothing, and watch tens of thousands of Mexicans return to Mexico, where they can at least retain some money, and also watch manufactured goods inventories pile up in Mexico.

2) Pay for the wall, and the tax goes away.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2016-02-11 09:29|| 2016-02-11 09:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Calderon shouldn't be making a fuss about the "stupid wall." He should be in the Home Depot parking lot angling for a shot at weed-wacking around its foundation.

Posted by regular joe 2016-02-11 10:04|| 2016-02-11 10:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Simple enough I suppose, and a solution for the European refugee problem as well. Don't sell merchandise without ID. Enforceable for tobacco and alcohol why not all?

Posted by Skidmark 2016-02-11 10:24|| 2016-02-11 10:24|| Front Page Top

#7 And any living space sold or rented to an illegal is seized and auctioned off, the proceeds go to the wall.

And get rid of the anchor baby bull$hit.

Posted by gorb 2016-02-11 10:31|| 2016-02-11 10:31|| Front Page Top

#8 I do not understand why there is not a rampart building cousin of the boring machines.

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-02-11 10:41|| 2016-02-11 10:41|| Front Page Top

#9 @@8: England has a neat machine for 'slipcasting' the UK equivalent of the highway Jersey barrier, so it would seem to be a simple matter of scaling up to build a higher J.B. I have to assume we have a similar device, Would probably need to pre-position rebar.
(No, I am not a civil engineer, and I have not stayed in a Holiday Inn Express lately)

Posted by USN, Ret. 2016-02-11 11:35|| 2016-02-11 11:35|| Front Page Top

#10
@ #9 & #8 Yes, these slip casting machines for highway barriers do exist here in the U.S., and are in regular use.

Once you get past all the politix, the controlling factor in barrier design is $$/unit length. It is simply cheaper per mile to go with sheet steel wall & chain link with patrol vehicle path between.

Posted by nguard 2016-02-11 11:54|| 2016-02-11 11:54|| Front Page Top

#11 with patrol vehicle path between

I prefer killer 'bots between two concrete walls with moving top edges spaced far enough apart that you can't bridge them.

Posted by gorb 2016-02-11 11:59|| 2016-02-11 11:59|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm not talking about a glorified cow pen, I'm talking Theodosian Wall building machine.

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-02-11 12:36|| 2016-02-11 12:36|| Front Page Top

#13 Why not enforce Immigration laws we have?

Posted by newc 2016-02-11 14:01|| 2016-02-11 14:01|| Front Page Top

#14 Any remittance from illegal sources, ie the new slave class should be seized. And tell Mexico and the others, for every one of their people we catch here illegally, we will annex 1 square mile of their country. And it's our choice WHICH Mile^2 it is. Ie their oil fields, mines and all the other good parts. They don't like it, they can take it up with our new experimental killer robots, who can use a good combat trial.

Posted by Silentbrick 2016-02-11 15:06|| 2016-02-11 15:06|| Front Page Top

#15 Over at Instapundit the other day, it was pointed out that remittance to Mexico has reached 24B.

As was mentioned, that is more than Mexico's petro industry brings in. Quite an incentive for the Mexican gov to keep it going.

Posted by SteveS 2016-02-11 16:54|| 2016-02-11 16:54|| Front Page Top

#16 Have the ugly chain link fence and sensors on the real border but a hundred meters back build a proper wall, one modeled on the Great Wall of China, one that can be seen from space, and make it a tourist destination.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-02-11 19:14|| 2016-02-11 19:14|| Front Page Top

#17 UA 571-C Automated Sentry Guns would be appreciated

Posted by Mullah Richard 2016-02-11 22:27|| 2016-02-11 22:27|| Front Page Top

#18 "Keeping the A-10 would also be good for southern Arizona."

*cough* *cough*

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-02-11 23:29|| 2016-02-11 23:29|| Front Page Top

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