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How do you figure?
Everything on the SS website agrees with my understanding. If you feel I'm in error, please elaborate. Otherwise...
Let's not and spend that opportunity cost on things that actually matter, like - oh...I dunno - the paychecks of federal employees.
Ringo
I think the numbers are a bit off, but maybe I missed something. The US-Mexican border is over 1,900 miles, closer to (or even over) 19,500 miles depending on how the fence runs. So, if you have a guard posts every 200 yards, that is around 17,000 guard posts, so 17,000 single guards per tower. If you have two guards per tower (with one in the tower, the other walking the fence, perhaps switching off every hour), you are up to 34,000 (or even 35,000) -- and that is if they work 24 hours per day and live in the tower. If you have three shift, you triple (or likely quintuple, to ensure they get days off each week as well as annual vacations). And that doesn't include the support staff needed to do administrative work, as well as hire, and train people for that guard duty. When you start adding it up, you are likely looking at around $10 billion just in personnel costs annually to man and support this fence.
If it could have been breached then you were walking an ineffective patrol zone.
Based on what? And please don't say your experience.
Thanks for the laugh. I wish you would actually be consistent with your claims.
I repeat, your hunting dog (and its training) is not equivalent to a military or police working dog.
We aren't simply talking about guard dogs, remember? Your claim was about "attack dogs".
Easy to say, hard to support with facts/data/etc.
Got any?
They will be paid, and possibly 'then some'. I buy things for my company on my credit card, sometimes up to several thousand dollars per month. I often don't get reimbursed for a couple of months...but I always do (I also get all the 'rewards' that those purchases generate as well).
Trump has agreed to a fence, therefore it will be a fence.
Sigh, yet another failed campaign promise from Trump. Next think we'll learn is that Mexico won't be paying for this fence.
Mexico may not be paying for the fence...but it is going to 'cost' them dearly.
Let's build the wall and see. If I'm wrong I'll apologize all over the place.
Success frequently comes to those who do things that others insist can't be done.
Sigh, yet another failed campaign promise from Trump. Next thing we'll learn is that Mexico won't be paying for this fence.
Success SELDOM comes to those who ignore data, history and rational thought.
That door swings both ways.
Do you win a lot in Vegas?
Do we have to gamble with you?
No, you have confused two different issues. Please go back and read the string of the conversation to get the right idea before you jump in.From my Senator (Alexander R-TN) on one possible solution to the shutdown:
"Pass the bill that 54 senators voted for last February, which combined a solution for children brought to the United States illegally (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA) and $25 billion in appropriated funding for border security over 10 years. The bill failed only because of last-minute White House opposition."
The reason you "don't see it" is because you have your head buried in the sand.
I never gamble. I prefer the tortoise approach...slow but sure.
I don't see how, considering there's no funding to actually build it. Imaginary things don't really cost anything.
$l.6 billion is being used to build it, and Mexicans are already suffering the consequences.
Oh, well, if brown people are suffering I guess it was money well spent.
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