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jmowreader

(50,559 posts) Mon Jan 22, 2018, 02:18 AM Jan 2018

The most frustrating part about Trump's wall demand...

...isn't that it'll mark the transition from "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" to "vete a la mierda a casa, pendejo!" Or that it'll seem like we loved the Berlin Wall so much we decided to build one of our own.

No, the real irritant is Trump cut tax revenues by about five times what he thinks he needs to build this thing, and he still thinks he can have all the money he wants.

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The most frustrating part about Trump's wall demand... (Original Post) jmowreader Jan 2018 OP

I still can't believe he got away with that Control-Z Jan 2018 #1

What happened ? Guaranteeeed Mexico would pay . Not that I want a wall but he is such a con lunasun Jan 2018 #2

And Mexico has already made it clear they aren't going to pay for it jmowreader Jan 2018 #3

They keep saying "walls work" cyclonefence Jan 2018 #4

Control-Z

(15,682 posts)

1. I still can't believe he got away with that

Reply to jmowreader (Original post)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 02:27 AM

Jan 2018

and without much of a fight. I hope our Democratic leaders are planning to undo all of that when we get majorities in Congress later this year.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)

2. What happened ? Guaranteeeed Mexico would pay . Not that I want a wall but he is such a con

Reply to jmowreader (Original post)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 02:31 AM

Jan 2018

Tax cuts for my rich buddies and the wall for my racist friends

jmowreader

(50,559 posts)

3. And Mexico has already made it clear they aren't going to pay for it

Reply to lunasun (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 02:45 AM

Jan 2018

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)

4. They keep saying "walls work"

Reply to jmowreader (Original post)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 09:34 AM

Jan 2018

Well, the Berlin wall didn't work; the walls in Israel/Palestine don't work. The Great Wall of China worked, I guess, but those guys were defending against archers on horseback. The wall around Troy didn't work, either. Which wall is it that works? The wall around Mar-a-lago?

1. Has there been a terror attack carried out by a Mexican immigrant?
2. Doesn't the vast majority of drugs from S.A. come here via plane and boat? It's hard for me to imagine people trudging through the desert, unable in some cases to carry enough water to sustain life, being the major source of drugs.
3. If Mexicans taking US jobs is such a big threat, why is unemployment among Americans so low?

None of this computes for me.

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