Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "Who Is Trump Really Building This Stupid Wall For?" video.
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It's an absurdity... a nation that doesn't have universal healthcare, universal education, no high speed rail system, most cities lack good metro rail, we have current interstate and other roads and bridges in serious need of renovation and upgrades, our hydro electric dam networks are in poor shape and need upgrades, other than our share in ITER we don't have any other aggressive direct method of research safer fission and ultimate safe and extremely abundant energy supply of fusion that will quite literally change the world for the better providing a complete removal of fossil fuels for energy, etc.
So no. A wall that would cost minimum of $25 billion plus ongoing operational costs, and really a wall across the boarder would cost the price of an additional 6 lane transcontinental interstate highway which at the tune of $1 trillion to build, and operational yearly cost of about 1% or $10 billion a year. A wall that would give no economic value whatsoever.
And would provide no real exclusion to illegal immigrants... 99% of illegal immigrants come here via legal means (airport, vehicle via boarder posts, seaports) and overstay their visa or violate their passport provisions by working without a work visa.
The ones who come here dirt poor, with no connections... the most vulnerable, are the one's most quickly discovered by immigration control, and generally become the most discouraged and leave since almost all legal employers use E-Verify.
It's pure idiocy. As fucking dumb as our major cities in every state building billion dollar stadiums when they lack sufficient water, electricity, garbage, recycling, and states that are immense geographically having to shutter rural clinics and hospitals... but let's build a fucking stadium.
Clowns. We're fucking nation of fucking clowns.
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