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FB post from a trump-addled knuckle-dragger who is the epitome of the thick-neck military true believer Threat Seeker...
Paraphrasing:
Provides jobs for steel mfrs
Can help eliminate prisons
Can help decriminalize drugs
Can boost solar energy industry
Provide a skill for prison laborers
Um...yeah
haele
(12,581 posts)Because a Steel barrier will require welders, trenchers, heavy equipment operators, masons, etc. - which are all skilled labor. Steel manufacturers?
So he's for taking hundreds of $15 an hour minimum with benefits jobs away from hard-working, honest American families struggling with mortgage or rent payments and giving them to "work-release" prisoners - with families too often being supplemented with taxpayer dimes just so Hedge funds and few Corporate heads get a couple million dollars in bonus money every year?
As for "Steel Manufacturer jobs" - Your true believer buddy does know that they're working to lift sanctions on a Russian Steel Oligarch for cheap Russian Steel - helping the Russian economy somewhat, but really helps Mr. and Mrs. "Secretary of Transportation/Senate Majority Leader" Chou and her family who will probably be shipping that contracted by Homeland Security ready-to-install Russian steel out to Galveston.
As for decriminalizing drugs or boost solar energy industry - neither of those have anything to do with a Border Wall. Especially with an administration that has proven it is all for throwing people into prison to provide free labor for donar corporations and has no interest in promoting Solar over fossil fuel until the Kochs say it would be okay.
Your true believer can't put two and two together well enough to realize that this wall will do anything other than empty the U.S. Treasury for Russian and GOP Business interests. It was designed to destroy the U.S. financially and socially, and he's playing right into their hands.
Haele