Author Topic: [NEWS] Mexican border wall to be paid by US taxpayers, agency cuts; not Mexico  (Read 9695 times)

People already do, just on a miniature version of what the wall will be
It's not hard to get a slightly bigger ladder and a towel to cover barbed wire

So you're telling me we should give up all hope on a wall because some people might get over it

I tell you what man I don't trust those damn locks on my doors some guy broke in to my neighbor's house the other day

Perhaps using an air cannon?

Gotta admire their craftsmanship

I still think donald Annoying Orange's whole campaign and presidency is an attempt to increase the value of his brand
it would explain all the senseless stuff that he's doing. like saying we should interfere less in international affairs but also increase military spending. that doesn't make sense. but he does it anyway because the people who voted for him are soldier-loving foreigner-hating patriots
and the plan to build a wall despite the obvious wastefulness

I tell you what man I don't trust those damn locks on my doors some guy broke in to my neighbor's house the other day
That brown townogy doesn't really work in this context

I still think donald Annoying Orange's whole campaign and presidency is an attempt to increase the value of his brand

I think he had nothing better to do

i thought it was pretty clear his point is that the money taken from those black projects wouldnt be missed by anyone not in the upper echelons of the NSA/CIA.
Useless, expensive bullstuff in government is a big problem, but I don't see it as a win-win to funnel money from one useless project to another useless project.

There's a famous investigative journalism piece from the 80s that exposed a lot of really heinous government spending oversights, like $640 toilet seats, $7600 coffee makers, $74,000 aluminum ladders, and, get this, a $660 ashtray.

This is the stuff that we should be cutting. Instead of demonizing welfare mothers for buying soda, why don't we demonize Congress for throwing away billions on overpriced, useless garbage?

Gotta admire their craftsmanship
It's literally nothing compared to the tunnels that they've managed to build in crowded, urban centers with police cars driving around above ground. They've installed high-voltage power lines, air conditioning, lift systems, and lights in these tunnels. If you think a wall is going to pose an insurmountable difficulty to the cartels' engineers, you're mistaken.

I'm of the opinion that the best way to combat this kind of bullstuff is just to legalize and produce drugs domestically, but my views aren't shared by the majority of congress. Instead, I think you guys should at least back a viable strategy to combat drug smuggling, since a wall might sound good and look good, but there are totally valid reasons why it isn't going to work.

I'm of the opinion that the best way to combat this kind of bullstuff is just to legalize and produce drugs domestically, but my views aren't shared by the majority of congress. Instead, I think you guys should at least back a viable strategy to combat drug smuggling, since a wall might sound good and look good, but there are totally valid reasons why it isn't going to work.
As long as there's some product that's in high demand, people will find some way to flip it for profit. If you legalize drugs, those same cartels will turn to gun running, and the worst part will be the invasive competition, and it will cause a lot more gang-related deaths since everyone is trying to sell guns. If you make the guns legal and the drugs legal, they'll start flipping counterfeit money. It just goes on.

I tell you what man I don't trust those damn locks on my doors some guy broke in to my neighbor's house the other day
The best brown townogy would be "i tell you what man i don't trust those damn locks on my doors, so i'm going to install a second door, that way they'll have to open twice as much doorage in order to break in"

Wasting time and money on something that won't do anything beyond what it already did before.

Instead, I think you guys should at least back a viable strategy to combat drug smuggling, since a wall might sound good and look good, but there are totally valid reasons why it isn't going to work.

From the looks of it I don't think the wall will be the only thing going into border security, didn't Annoying Orange hire 5k new border guards? That's a really small number for such a big plan but it's definitely a start

The best brown townogy would be "i tell you what man i don't trust those damn locks on my doors, so i'm going to install a second door, that way they'll have to open twice as much doorage in order to break in"

Wasting time and money on something that won't do anything beyond what it already did before.

You have an amazing talent of taking an brown townogy I make and somehow morphing it into something worse

You have an amazing talent of taking an brown townogy I make and somehow morphing it into something worse
Building a wall is just the same as building a door over a door that you have

You have an amazing talent of taking an brown townogy I make and somehow morphing it into something worse
To be fair you seem to be pretty bad at making apt brown townogies to begin with

If you legalize drugs, those same cartels will turn to gun running, and the worst part will be the invasive competition, and it will cause a lot more gang-related deaths since everyone is trying to sell guns.
I don't think that makes economic sense. Black markets are actually pretty efficient, so most of the demand for smuggled guns is probably already being met by smugglers. So just because drug demand plummets doesn't necessarily mean that the quantity of smuggled guns is going to skyrocket.  

I see your point though, and if we were to completely ban guns, we'd probably just see a corresponding increase in demand for smuggled weaponry.

From the looks of it I don't think the wall will be the only thing going into border security, didn't Annoying Orange hire 5k new border guards? That's a really small number for such a big plan but it's definitely a start
To his credit, I don't think hiring more border guards is a bad idea. I've got vastly different opinions on how to handle immigration, but at least 5,000 border guards will actually do their job - unlike the wall.

Building a wall is just the same as building a door over a door that you have

Isn't that what Anne Frank did  :cookieMonster:

Isn't that what Anne Frank did  :cookieMonster:
look where it got her

Adding more border security is the equivalent of adding an electronic lock with biometric scanners on it to your door. Building the wall is just painting the door a different color.

don't worry guys they'll have to build a highway along sections of the border wall

How can you be competent at basic engineering principles and still think this is a good idea?

How can you be so dense and so egotistical at the same time?