How Trump can build the wall today — and make Mexico pay for it

[Hypoxia]

Majority rule by overwhelming votes from densely populated areas harms voters in less densely populated areas by disenfranchising them. To offset this, the founders created the electoral college.

The electoral system (no 'college' ever existed) was devised when only white male landowners over 21 had the vote, n!ggers counted as fractional people, Injuns didn't count at all, and travel between states was painfully slow. It was a political bargain that benefited the rich. Imagine that.

Now, the skewed federal electoral system makes a voter in Delaware or New Hampshire worth more than a Floridian or Texan. Candidates can (and do) focus on 'battleground' states and not bother with most of the country, whose residents are essentially disenfranchised.

You want to reward losers. Is that a personal problem?

 

[doowdniw]

We won't need a wall because Dopey Don has called on the military to provide what amounts to 1 soldier for every 1/2 mile of border. Good going, Donnie. Winning! How's that trade war with "Gina" working out for you and your base? Winning, yay!! Tillerson nailed it with his "Fucking Moron".

 

[Hypoxia]

We won't need a wall because Dopey Don has called on the military to provide what amounts to 1 soldier for every 1/2 mile of border. Good going, Donnie. Winning!

The Roman legions might do it different. Issue troops shovels and sledges to build big fucking walls to match Hadrian's. Then settle veterans on land next to the wall. Their system lasted for centuries and their constructions for millennia. None of this low-bid high-bribe civilian 'contractor' horseshit.

Or forget walls. Dig big fucking moats filled with hippos and crocs.

How's that trade war with "Gina" working out for you and your base? Winning, yay!! Tillerson nailed it with his "Fucking Moron".

Wars involve allies. What nations will ally themselves to Tromp in this war?

 

[beew]

I just read an article which claims that the opioid epidemic is mellowing in the UK, but that it reached unprecedented levels in the States.

Will the wall have any impact on that? In theory yes, but I doubt it. Drug cartels are very resourceful.

 

[about_average]

Meanwhile in reality, our military has TWO entire organizations whose sole purpose is to build things - the U.S. Navy's Construction Battalions (Seabees) and the Army Corp of Engineers. They have the equipment, skills, knowledge, mobility and capabilities, AND FUNDING to build the wall.

Really? And which part of the pentagon budget would that $50 billion come out of?

 

[Hypoxia]

I just read an article which claims that the opioid epidemic is mellowing in the UK, but that it reached unprecedented levels in the States.

I read that USA states with legalized cannabis are seeing drops in opioid abuse cases. Better tell Jeff Sessions or his replacement.

 

[HisArpy]

Really? And which part of the pentagon budget would that $50 billion come out of?

Honestly, you actually have to be stupid to post shit like this.

If you don't know what the money that goes to the military actually DOES, then you should refrain from shoving your foot into your mouth until you DO know how the money is allocated.

Some of that money pays for construction training for the Seabees. Seabees build shit. It's what they do. Most of the time they push dirt from one end of the vacant field to the other because that's all they have to work with. Give them a border wall to build based on specs, and they'll build it, enemy fire be damned.

It's what they do. "We build, we fight" is their motto.

The US Army Crop of Engineers also has a budget allocation. Some prioritizing of projects is done but they can divert funds to other projects if the need is there.

The money is there. Or are you against diverting money from building more bombs? And, if the military built the wall, it'd cost less because the military doesn't have to make a profit.

 

[doowdniw]

it'd cost less because the military doesn't have to make a profit.

Yes, the wall will be the $400 hammer and $200 toilet seat of low cost military expenditures because they don't have to make a profit (hint: someone else does).

 

[Antryg_Windrose]

Yes, the wall will be the $400 hammer and $200 toilet seat of low cost military expenditures because they don't have to make a profit (hint: someone else does).

Didn't the Pentagon lose a trillion or so recently, with bad accounting and watchdogging? If they found that lost cash, could they afford the wall? And maybe some aircraft carriers, and warplanes that work, and general maintenance so that more forces are deployable somewhere? Can't that bookkeeping error be corrected?