A wall isn't gonna work. I strongly feel Trump wants it so bad because he and his cronies stand to make a fortune off of it with over expenses, delays, etc. It happens everytime. It's how SEATAC wound up paying 3x the cost of an already multi billion dollar runway. Or that goddamn "bridge to nowhere".
This is the same thing. It won't stop illegals, it's just a speed bump. It's not gonna be 100,000PSI concrete or better or shit they build vaults out of. Now if we mined the next 100m from the wall, it'd work. But they wont' do that. It won't be long before that goddamn wall will have holes busted through it, makeshift bridges and ladders all over the place, not to mention just using earth movers to pull sections down. It'll cost far more to maintain it that it does to build it, and it still won't work because while you're patching one hole or rebuilding one section, they're tearing through another.
They said the Great Wall of China was basically breached en masse not long after it was built. In all sorts of ways. And that wall was a lot bigger and more substantial than anything they're gonna build down there. It also had soldiers posted in guard towers close enough torch signals could be passed with barracks every so often including horses. They could get anywhere along the wall in almost no time. Ours won't even be that good.
As for the threatened shutdown, we just can't run a country like this. There's ALWAYS a threatened shutdown if one side doesn't get what they want. Must be great for stability and trust. One day they'll fuck up and the VA checks and the SS checks won't go out. Debtors will still want their money. VA clinics close and you can't get seen, when you do reschedule, now you'll be waiting another two months. College doesn't get paid for vets and it fucks them up. Just all sorts of mayhem that only benefit one or two people.
If that's the kind of pressure they want to put on the people, it tells me we need to fix the system. No more political parties, your district or your state is your party, no more money in politics, no more lobbyists --taxes pay for the election and we are the lobbyists, held responsible and accountable, minimum skills standard test so we're not picking from the bottom of the barrel, 6 year terms, no re-election, taking some of the power back from gov. that we've both given them and allowed them to just take, like how they use interstate trade to own us. There's a few other items, but if we instituted these we could make government work for us again and at the same time weed out all the corruption and backroom deals and greed.
Or we can just keep on keepin' on and wait until something the system and the people can't take causes a mass uprising or civil war.
