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grumpyduck

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Sat Jan 19, 2019, 08:48 PM Jan 2019

Interesting article on the wall from a construction journal

Just now looking for information on the steel specs for the wall, and ran across this article in Equipment World, a journal for the construction industry. It's from last year, but an interesting take on their viewpoint. The short article ends with:

Washington D.C. can’t make the sensible choice when there is money on the table. But for those of you in the private sector who are eager to get a piece of this wall building deal, think about the implications. What does it say about your character if you are willing to take vast amounts of taxpayer money to build something bound to fail; a wall predicated on America’s addiction to illegal drugs and cheap labor and our hypocritical inability to enforce our own laws?

And 10 or 20 years from now, are you going to take your grandkids out in the desert to see this half-built, broken down and abandoned wall and proudly say: “See kids, I helped build that.”


https://www.equipmentworld.com/can-trumps-wall-be-built-will-it-be-effective-should-you-bid-no-no-and-no-heres-why/

Another piece, in Fortune, says partly:

Estimates range from as low as $8 billion to as much as $67 billion or more, depending on whom you ask and the number of miles of wall that get built. Based on Trump’s 2017 budget request for $2.6 billion to plan, design and build 75 miles of wall, Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill’s office estimated the per-mile cost would be about $37 million, or nearly $67 billion for the entire 2,000-mile border. Congressional Republicans have said they expect a wall to cost from $12 billion to $15 billion, based on the cost to rebuild existing border fencing covering a third of that distance. These projections, however, don’t include the cost of land acquisition.


http://fortune.com/2018/01/19/donald-trump-border-wall/
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Interesting article on the wall from a construction journal (Original Post) grumpyduck Jan 2019 OP
Remember Paul Wolfowitz? Miigwech Jan 2019 #1
I try to forget him. GP6971 Jan 2019 #2
Wow, fascinating find, thanks for posting. Rhiannon12866 Jan 2019 #3
K&R Scurrilous Jan 2019 #4
 

Miigwech

(3,741 posts)
1. Remember Paul Wolfowitz?
Sat Jan 19, 2019, 09:01 PM
Jan 2019
James Fallows
Mar 29, 2013
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A little over 10 years ago, George W. Bush fired his economic adviser, Lawrence Lindsey, for saying that the total cost of invading Iraq might come to as much as $200 billion. Bush instead stood by such advisers as Paul Wolfowitz, who said that the invasion would be largely "self-financing" via Iraq's oil, and Andrew Natsios, who told an incredulous Ted Koppel that the war's total cost to the American taxpayer would be no more than $1.7 billion.


https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/03/paying-the-costs-of-iraq-for-decades-to-come/274477/

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