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skip fox

(19,359 posts) Tue Dec 18, 2018, 12:41 PM Dec 2018

Mr. President. There are many ways to fund the border wall (before Mexico reimberses us, of course):

Respectfully, Mr. President, there are many ways to pay for the wall, we just need to be creative thinkers.

For example:

--Start a Go Fund Me page to allow all of your eager followers to donate $25 billion dollars. After all, many of them are now convinced of its necessity. If each member of your base, or approximately 46 million American voters, donated just $543 (fixed from $543,000) apiece, your wall would soon be a reality.

--Criminalize bankruptcy and use such prisoners as slave labor to build the wall.

--Allow our fine Navy to stop ships at sea and pillage them.

--Just build it, paying for material and labor with IOU's which you can send to Mexico.

--Ask 25 multiple-billionaire patriots for one billion apiece.

--Make every voting age American donate their salaries and wages for a single year.

--Allow all immigrants to enter but if only they will undergo indentured servitude for a decade at which time they can apply for citizenship, with all revenue going to the wall.

--Start a national carnival in which you and your family sit fully dressed over dunk tanks and charge one hundred dollars a throw. (You'll be there in no time!)

--Charge 25 countries $1 billion dollars apiece of not blowing them up.

So don't despair, Mr. President. Just put on your thinking cap!

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Mr. President. There are many ways to fund the border wall (before Mexico reimberses us, of course): (Original Post) skip fox Dec 2018 OP

Aggressively prosecute those who defraud their vendors. Send the fines NCjack Dec 2018 #1

You can get 5 cents back in each pop bottle in Vermont underpants Dec 2018 #2

Fantastic! skip fox Dec 2018 #3

Um, Skip. Check Your Math ProfessorGAC Dec 2018 #4

I stand corrected. skip fox Dec 2018 #6

Just Asking For $540 Each Is Still Pretty Funny ProfessorGAC Dec 2018 #8

Another promise made duforsure Dec 2018 #5

More suggestions: skip fox Dec 2018 #7

NCjack

(10,279 posts)

1. Aggressively prosecute those who defraud their vendors. Send the fines

Reply to skip fox (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2018, 12:57 PM

Dec 2018

and CEOs to purchase materials and to labor on the wall.

underpants

(182,829 posts)

2. You can get 5 cents back in each pop bottle in Vermont

Reply to skip fox (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2018, 01:08 PM

Dec 2018

Just saying.

skip fox

(19,359 posts)

3. Fantastic!

Reply to underpants (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 18, 2018, 01:12 PM

Dec 2018

We could have undocumented aliens walking our roadways picking up cans and bottles. It will help wity re-cycling and pay for the wall in less than a century.

Sounds like a win-win to me, Mr. President!

(P.s., Put underpants in the Cabinet. Secretary of good ideas.)

ProfessorGAC

(65,076 posts)

4. Um, Skip. Check Your Math

Reply to skip fox (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2018, 01:13 PM

Dec 2018

$25 billion divided by 46 million people is $543 not 540k.

The rest i dig.

skip fox

(19,359 posts)

6. I stand corrected.

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #4)

Tue Dec 18, 2018, 01:26 PM

Dec 2018

It was too much for my pocket calculator.

I am also a professor, but of English.

I'll fix, but it's not as funny.

But that does mean he could have his 5 billion if each Trumster gave just $110. That's do-able! So challenging them to do so, puts them in a put-up-or-shut-up position. "After all," we could say, if it's so damned important to you and the hoards are actually at our gates, what's $110 in comparison? I mean, if you were truly patriotic . . ."

ProfessorGAC

(65,076 posts)

8. Just Asking For $540 Each Is Still Pretty Funny

Reply to skip fox (Reply #6)

Tue Dec 18, 2018, 03:15 PM

Dec 2018

Given that the jobs "it" promised to bring back never happened and the "economic anxiety" still has to exist.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)

5. Another promise made

Reply to skip fox (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2018, 01:24 PM

Dec 2018

And another one not kept. HE claimed Mexico would pay for it, and even bragged how easy it would be to do, and now after two years he is exposed again as nothing but a liar , and trying to stick the American taxpayer for it. He didn't keep this promise . He lied instead.

skip fox

(19,359 posts)

7. More suggestions:

Reply to skip fox (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2018, 03:00 PM

Dec 2018

As a patriot, Mr. President, I offer more suggestions:

--You could tell only the truth for a month which would have us shitting bricks which you could then use for the wall.

--You can hire a hypnotist who, being broadcast on all stations from Mexico south, would hypnotize eveyone into seeing a thousand feet wall studded with razor blades and hand grenades.

--You could catch a leprechaun and make him give you three wishes (but with seventeen investigations and all . . .).

--You could could mine some Kryptonite from a comet and force Superman to build the wall free! (It would only take him seconds.)

--You could prar (for once) that God would send a Moses who would organize the homeless so that they might build the wall.

--You could change all the dictionaries so that "wall," as a noun, would mean "fantasy garden" or an "imaginary playground."

--You could use subliminal suggestions in your speeches to the effect that "promises were made to be broken. This is a good thing."

Just trying to help.

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