Yeh, Trump can invoke a faux national emergency so we can all enjoy the faux benefits of the not really a Wall. And Mexico will pay for it.
DoD would be the best option. 5B is *nothing* to the military budget. Zero impact whatsoever.
A current Sargent Master (E8) friend of mine have talked about this, and he agrees.
#anecdotal
And can be defeated by many easy to get tools.Yea... Let's build it out of something that rusts and needs constant $$ for maintenance. Yea, genius...
They built at least a lot of it, and shocker it didn't work. Virtual fence way over ran and I don't think ever went operational.Whatever happened to the secure fence act of 2006? They were supposed to be using technology in addition to the fence.
At this point it would be best for all of us if Trump just came out and said the wall is already built. His base would believe it.
DoD would be the best option. 5B is *nothing* to the military budget. Zero impact whatsoever.
A current Sargent Master (E8) friend of mine have talked about this, and he agrees.
#anecdotal
Well if the Navy is any track record to go by, both west and east coast bases got upgraded to triple layer fencing in the secure area on the waterfronts. Both physically finished at the end of 2016. Oh yea, they got sensors all over, inspection stations, with card access, yet still, none of it is operational. Your taxpayer dollars at work!They built at least a lot of it, and shocker it didn't work. Virtual fence way over ran and I don't think ever went operational.
More like this-
DoD would be the best option. 5B is *nothing* to the military budget. Zero impact whatsoever.
A current Sargent Master (E8) friend of mine have talked about this, and he agrees.
#anecdotal
I saw this when it first came out. Made me smile then and still just as true now.More like this-
The funny thing that Trump and his supporters don't seem to understand just how unlikely it is the wall will be completed.
Let's say the Democrats do something stupid and cave in to budgetary demands for the wall right away. Well, that's just the early budget for it. Work on the wall won't start for a while. It will likely take years to complete, and that's assuming it doesn't need additional funding rounds or run into major setbacks (both of which are likely).
The wall will never be built. Given the nature of American bureaucracy and the complexity of such a large infrastructure project, Trump will be long dead before groundwork starts and the Republicans will have a new boogeyman to rattle their sabres at.
I can't help but wonder if that cartoon above would actually work. I'd go with a real check though, that part was a bit of a stretch.
The staff should seriously consider a fake video...CGI can do great walls! make it 100 feet tall and bristling with 50 cal, and hell even have a CGI caravan full of terrorists that gets sliced to ribbons by them....Trump will eat that up.
Well if the Navy is any track record to go by, both west and east coast bases got upgraded to triple layer fencing in the secure area on the waterfronts. Both physically finished at the end of 2016. Oh yea, they got sensors all over, inspection stations, with card access, yet still, none of it is operational. Your taxpayer dollars at work!
The funny thing that Trump and his supporters don't seem to understand just how unlikely it is the wall will be completed.
Let's say the Democrats do something stupid and cave in to budgetary demands for the wall right away. Well, that's just the early budget for it. Work on the wall won't start for a while. It will likely take years to complete, and that's assuming it doesn't need additional funding rounds or run into major setbacks (both of which are likely).
The problem, of course, is that Trump or another pro-wall Republican President is not guaranteed to be in office during the construction. Work on the wall stops the millisecond a Democratic President takes office. And with increasing chances that Trump is out after the 2020 election, there could be hardly any work done before the wall is canceled. Even if you ignore the many moral objections to the wall, the truth is that it's likely to just be a waste of money that will never be finished in any significant way.
In other words, the DHS has committed about 60% of the money for physical barriers via new contracts, while 40% of the money remains uncommitted. In fact, the government shutdown over the wall is stopping the agency from committing more money to build it.
You've been to my office? We also have super secure pedestrian gates built into a fence you could drive down with a Prius and not hurt the car overly much.The best part was a card access man door right next to a row of big roll up overhead doors with pushbuttons.