Morphine Prince 109,926 Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 PHILADELPHIA — Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will authorize $12 billion to $15 billion for a wall spanning the entire U.S.-Mexico border as soon as Sept. 30, the Republican leaders said Thursday. They would not say whether they would offset the costs of the wall — which President Trump repeatedly vowed would be paid for by Mexico — with budget cuts elsewhere or taxes. Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-leaders-back-at-least-12-billion-for-border-wall-153042941.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chromatislaps 34,854 Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 If Trump wants the wall that bad...why doesn't he pay it from his own pocket? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gia Gunn 7,265 Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 Trump in 4 years when the wall finally got built but nobody paid for it yet: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan 0 Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 He can afford to pay some of it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvnrp 48,353 Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 1 minute ago, Derpplause said: If Trump want's the wall that bad...why doesn't he pay it from his own pocket? Because Mexicans are evil and are required to pay for his dreams Dont u know Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphine Prince 109,926 Posted January 26, 2017 Author Share Posted January 26, 2017 1 minute ago, Derpplause said: If Trump want's the wall that bad...why doesn't he pay it from his own pocket? This wall is worth more than he is and even then we don't know how rich he actually is because he won't release his taxes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whispering 18,865 Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 They should start a gofundme page, so all the xenophobic hystericals could donate and pay for this completely useless eyesore. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reginald 13,843 Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 That's an astronomically large waste of our money, which will do absolutely nothing except destroy natural habitats and give xenophobes a false sense of security while the real threat lies within our own country. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saymyname432 866 Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 Pls, use your brain, this is totally fake. And the US-Mexico border actually exist. Built by Obama administration, the president who deported 2'5M people. Both are rubbish. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphine Prince 109,926 Posted January 26, 2017 Author Share Posted January 26, 2017 1 hour ago, Saymyname432 said: Pls, use your brain, this is totally fake. And the US-Mexico border actually exist. Built by Obama administration, the president who deported 2'5M people. Both are rubbish. What's fake? Them building the wall? I think we all know the border fence has been constructed in many areas and that the Obama administration deported a lot. So? This wall they want to build now is a waste. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smarticle 3,178 Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 ...But screw investing in alleviating college tuition and healthcare costs right? A wall is more productive Justice for Grigio Girls!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
En_Sabah_Nur 9,366 Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 4 hours ago, Smarticle said: ...But screw investing in alleviating college tuition and healthcare costs right? A wall is more productive Make America Great Again! Egypt. W Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMB 465 Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 I just read an article that put the cost at $40 billion. Concrete + This gives you a volume of about 12.7 million cubic yards, or 9.7 million cubic meters. Since structural concrete costs about $900 per cubic meter, we’re talking almost $9 billion. Steel + Steel reinforcement, or rebar, could take up about 3 percent of the volume of the concrete. That amount of rebar would weigh about 2.3 billion kilograms. At roughly $2 per kilogram, count on spending $4.6 billion for steel. Labor + If you assumed the same labor costs as what went into putting up the border fences between 2006 and 2009, and added that to the expense of the concrete and steel, the total cost of a wall might be $15 billion. But the labor for such a project would be much more expensive, especially since the parts of the border that are still open are more rugged. Consider Israel’s experience. It has built 320 miles of a planned 480-mile barrier in and around the West Bank. Only three to 10 percent of the completed portion is concrete. The cost so far: $2.6 billion, more than twice as much per mile as the fences along the U.S.-Mexico border, even though labor in Israel is slightly cheaper. That fits with what structural engineers have told me: the total cost of highways and other megascale projects in the U.S. is generally two to three times the material costs. That makes a 1,000-mile wall pencil out at $27 billion to $40 billion. = up to $40 billion https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602494/bad-math-props-up-trumps-border-wall/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goosey 3,017 Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 6 minutes ago, FMB said: I just read an article that put the cost at $40 billion. $15-25 billion, according to Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC. http://fronterasdesk.org/sites/default/files/field/docs/2016/07/Bernstein- The Trump Wall.pdf "I am the world's greatest person that does not want to let people into the country."—US President Donald J. Trump Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMB 465 Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 5 minutes ago, Goosey said: $15-25 billion, according to Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC. http://fronterasdesk.org/sites/default/files/field/docs/2016/07/Bernstein- The Trump Wall.pdf I simply put up an opposing view from MIT Technology Review. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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