The Wall
Donald Trump has a plan to make Mexico pay for the wall.
The Washington Post published the plan itself because they didn’t think you’d believe it if they just told you about it.
I’m kinda in the same fix.
Plus, my biggest complaint about the wall is that if Trump is President, I think the wall is meant to keep us in instead of keeping them out.
Trump estimates the wall will cost between $5 – $10 billion. I kinda suspect that’s only gonna hold if you use undocumented workers who will work that cheaply. See the problem here?
Most experts say the wall will cost $80 – $90 billion plus upkeep. That’s a whole mess of cement. Hell, Texas doesn’t have enough water for all that cement.
So, if Mexico doesn’t pay up …
On Day One – Trump will stop all wire transfers to Mexico. Most undocumented workers send their paychecks back home with wire transfers so Trump wants to put Western Union out of business and let Grandma back home starve.
On Day Two – Mexico is going to protest. Trump says he doesn’t give a hootin’ coyote about that. This is known as the Day of Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth. Screw it.
On Day Three – Tell Mexico that if they don’t give us the money, we will start a trade war, cancel visas which will keep Mexican businessmen from doing business in the United States, and then raise visa fees to pay for the wall. How you can cancel visas and then raise the fees on them, I dunno. I think it’s some sort of magic trick that involves tinkering with your brain.
There’s his plan.
That’s not a plan – that’s typing.
Mexico is not going to pay for the wall. You gonna bomb them or maybe sacrifice a taco and a piñata every day until they pay?
Well…what did you expect from someone whose company has gone into bankruptcy at least 3 times. But then again his old followers admire him for his business sense. While his young followers admire him for being a bully.
1This is what happens when bozos who’ve never held elected office in their lives start thinking they would make a great President. “I’ll run the country like I run my business!” Even gliding over the multiple bankruptcies, it don’t work like that. There’s this thing called Congress which actually makes the laws, and other things like the Supreme Court and other countries and international treaties….
These fools should start with a try at city council and work their way up.
But I’m sure many of his witless followers will think this is a great plan. They flunked Civics too, if anybody teaches it any more.
2That’s not a plan; it’s a bully’s favorite wet dream (sorry Momma)!
3I am rooting for the Donald to become the Repub nominee this year. I can think of no better gift to progressives.
4Wait until he finds out Canada will be taking in 10.000 more Syrians he’ll want to build one up here too, on the Canadian border!
5Well, building walls will create jobs. Nemmine who for.
6So I guess once we cancel all the visas we then have to get used to canned vegetables and fruits sent from Europe and watch our farms COLLAPSE because there are now no workers. Great idea
7It would probably be useless to explain the mechanics and costs of a wall to Donnie. But maybe he could buy a clue about travel by air, water and tunnel; or not.
8I saw that Mexico is already sacrificing Donald Trump pinatas.
9A little known fact is that much of the USA’s cement industry is now owned and controlled by a (wait for it) MEXICAN business conglomerate (owned by one of the world’s richest dudes of course).
Sooo, if much of this new wall will be made of concrete (of which an essential ingredient is Portland/roman cement), how TF are those concrete supply contracts and deliveries for this new wall going to work out, eh?
Meanwhile, back in the weeds, all those Trumpian freedumb-luvvin’ teabaggers are just lapping this sh!t up and howling for more swill in their bowls.
10Oh yeah, forgot to add a comment about those old Roman exercises in futility, Hadrian’s and the Antonine Walls, built to keep those pesky Picts-Scots at bay.
Bonus factoid: guess what ethnic group comprises the majority of teabaggers (IMO of course)?
Since the Romans invented cement (aggregate concrete), and used it to build part of those old walls about two millennium ago.
11Well the trump voters aren’t too smart to start with so they will go along with the standard rePUKEian way to pay…raise the taxes on the poor and lower the taxes on the rich to pay for the wall. And if you build the wall’s sides as a step pyramid the future up keep will be less and it will make it easier for the oppressed poor of america to escape to Mexico!
12The primary purpose of that wall is to keep us from laying eyes on all those exported jobs that are going to find low wage, work hardened, English speaking, American trained workers expelled and waiting to be exploited. Meanwhile we will discover that we still don’t want the jobs that open up on this shaded side of that monstrosity by virtue of deportation. Bottom line is that Trump’s blue collar supporters will pay for that wall.
13Gee wouldn’t it be quicker if he just seized any corporate payments and/or reimbursements along with all financial transfers between any banks, insurance companies, financial management firms etc.
I mean after all if he is so gung ho to seize private property he should follow the Willie Sutton and go to where the money is.
14The cost of the paperwork on these small remittances would probably take a sizable chunk out of the amount seized. Whereas if he just takes out of Citibank payment transfers or GM’s payment for materials or payments for Mexican Crude oil etc it would be much more profitable then piddly little payments.
Calm down folks. The “plan” is a pile of crock.
15Trump’s been into the peyote again.
16Well, I, for one, am super impressed that it is typed. I thought it would be scribbles on a bar napkin.
17And the banking industry will salute, say “Yes Your Excellency”, and give up all the income they’ve been getting by charging for those transfers, money orders, travelers’ cheques, and other negotiable instruments that cross the borders. Maybe back when there was a Post Office Department with a cabinet level Postmaster General the President could issue an executive order to halt all postal exchange certificates between the USA and Mexico but beyond that — what an utterly clueless Krelborn!
18Unfortunately, the National Neanderthal continues to attract the Americans whose brains have also not evolved past the Paleolithic Age. Let them drool on about their vengeful fantasies and then Boom! The Cleveland Catharsis brings this all to an abrupt and possibly violent end. Dream on Chump.
19As President Obama said: Good luck with keeping track and intercepting all of those Western Union transfer!!
The Prez just shakes his head at the Stump’s idiocy!!
20Make America great again? I thought that was the purpose of viagra.
21I’m surprised that Trump hasn’t come up with a proposal for financing the deportation by shaking down everyone who gets to stay for a thousand dollars.
It would be cheaper and better for all of us if we just build a wall around The Donald. I could probably raise a few million for that in a matter of hours on GoFundMe.
22Sure, build the wall. Its a great idea. GM and Ford will have to shut down all those factories in Mexico and bring all those jobs back to the U.S.. I am sure that will go over well in Detroit and on Wall st.
23According to International Living, there are approximately 1 million Americans living in Mexico. A very high percentage of those are retirees living there because the cost of living is so much lower in Mexico, that its possible to live with dignity on a Social Security pension (that’s one reason I’m retired in Costa Rica), and, like mine, all those SS payments arrive by remittance from the United States. That means that upwards of a million Americans in Mexico suddenly aren’t going to get their Social Security and/or private pension payments – which will leave them stranded, penniless, in a foreign country, with no way to work their way out of the mess.
I’d really like to be a fly on the wall in the U.S. Consulate emergency assistance office hearing those retirees’ comments about Donald Trump when that happens. And what the consulate officials have to say in response to all those gringos lined up all the way around the block and clear down the street…
Has There’ll-Be-Hell-Toupeé thought about that? Not any more than anything else he’s said.
24I keep waiting for the, “It’s good for you. It has electrolytes.”
25Shhhhhh….let’s all be vewy vewy quiet and maybe no other people will realize that people can get money to Mexico using something other than wire transfers.
26Hell,
27At the rate these Southern States are Ramming these “Religious Freedom” Laws through, Imma thinking that wall is gonna end up ’bout West Virginia.
Drumpf is obviously not a student of history (or anything else) but the lessons of the Berlin Wall should be raised. It was officially know as the Anti-Fascist Protective Wall, but became known as the Wall of Shame, or Death Wall. Drumpf’s Wall is a Neanderthal’s dream.
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