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Despite immigration, I think building the wall is a great idea
Posted on 12/16/16 at 5:11 pm
Posted on 12/16/16 at 5:11 pm
Build something along the lines of the Great Wall of China, where there is a wide walkway along the top. And even after the immigration issue becomes a moot point, think of all the tourism that structure will attract for centuries to come
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Posted on 12/16/16 at 5:15 pm to League Champs
I'm sure many of you will take your families there on a family vacation.
Posted on 12/16/16 at 5:15 pm to League Champs
There are many areas in that part of the country that could use tourist dollars
Posted on 12/16/16 at 5:17 pm to ellishughtiger
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I'm sure many of you will take your families there on a family vacation.
I could imagine people already visiting Tombstone, Grand Canyon, Alamo, etc would make a day trip to the border for that??
Posted on 12/16/16 at 5:19 pm to League Champs
We should paint the side facing Mexico to match the landscape on US side
Posted on 12/16/16 at 5:24 pm to League Champs
I say build the Wall, make it a big bike/travel path on top and people would love it.
Posted on 12/17/16 at 12:04 am to DupontsCircle
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big bike/travel path
The libs might even sign on
Posted on 12/17/16 at 12:16 am to League Champs
I think we should take some unclaimed Mexican bodies out of the morgue and create a fake news story saying that US Marine snipers shot them. That should stop illegals from crossing for a while. But build the wall anyway.
This post was edited on 12/17/16 at 12:18 am
Posted on 12/17/16 at 12:25 am to League Champs
Keynes would be crying tears of joy as he smashed windows if he could read this thread.
This post was edited on 12/17/16 at 12:26 am
Posted on 12/17/16 at 7:11 am to RobbBobb
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There are many areas in that part of the country that could use tourist dollars
WHere in the frick would anyone sleep, get something to eat or even a bottle of water or a gallon of gas? Most of the area is so remote it would take a serious survivalist to survive a car breaking down. I don't think most people on the east coast and the mid-west and the NW have any idea how remote and rugged and naturallu deadly the majority of the border between the US and Mexico is. Driving in the area is akin to going offshore in a boat by yourself with no communication equipment....one bad break...a flat tire, stuck thermostat, broken serpentine belt and your life is truly in peril within a few hours...it is a beautiful part of the world though...but it can and has been deadly for many people who weren't aware of just how alien it is to most life forms...
Posted on 12/17/16 at 7:19 am to RobbBobb
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I could imagine people already visiting Tombstone, Grand Canyon, Alamo, etc would make a day trip to the border for that??
Day trip from the Grand Canyon isn't likely...about 6 hours to Yuma....it is a VAST area out here....something that folks from the east coast and the midwest can't truly comprehend until they have lived in this part of the world...2 hours at least for most people to a regional airport and 4-6 to any sort of international airport....35 miles at least between towns so small they may not even have a gas station...signs that literally warn you that the next services are close to 200 miles away.....interstate exits 25 miles apart and which lead to nowhere for hours....literally driveways entering the interstates out here....with mail boxes and usually a flag pole and maybe a gate....but the house is so far off the road you'd think it didn't exist....
Posted on 12/17/16 at 7:20 am to MrCarton
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Keynes would be crying tears of joy as he smashed windows if he could read this thread.
Keynes was right all along and the GOP is finally done with all of that austerity bull shite...
Posted on 12/17/16 at 9:48 am to League Champs
If you want the liberals to get on board they should build that high speed rail line they are always talking about on top of it. Win-Win.
They get a train to play with and we can keep the boarder secure.
They get a train to play with and we can keep the boarder secure.
Posted on 12/17/16 at 12:48 pm to germandawg
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WHere in the frick would anyone sleep, get something to eat or even a bottle of water or a gallon of gas?
I'm not sure you understand supply and demand, nor how tourism works. Youre on the same side of history like those that mocked building the 1st casino near Las Vegas, or Disney buying up all that swamp land near Orlando.
Posted on 12/17/16 at 12:50 pm to League Champs
Can you imagine running some marathons on that bad boy. Put a Mexican joint every few miles with bottomless margaritas. Nice bathroom (the best bathrooms).
Posted on 12/18/16 at 8:47 am to RobbBobb
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I'm not sure you understand supply and demand, nor how tourism works. Youre on the same side of history like those that mocked building the 1st casino near Las Vegas, or Disney buying up all that swamp land near Orlando.
Really? SO a casino in the 50's and a theme park in the 60's and 70's has the same attraction a a wall and a bicycle path literally in the middle of nowhere today?
At the end of building a casino in the desert you have a casino....
At the end of building a theme park in the middle of a swamp you have a casino...
At the end of building a wall in the middle of nowhere you have a wall in the middle of nowhere...something that mom and dad can no doubt easily sale to a generation of kids who can't go outside without a drum of sunblock and engineered clothing which prevents them from actually being outside as a bucket list vacation destination...
You know what? There is already a BEAUTIFUL national park in one of the more accessible areas of the border....well within your day trip parameters...and almost no one ever visits it...in fact there are two and neither of theme get used at all too speak of...they are both gorgeous but there ain't any internet and the only thing to do at either is marvel at nature...not exactly something that kids or even millenials are interested in doing as evidenced by the lack of visitors to attractions already in the area...
Now build a resort close to the wall and people would no doubt go see the wall....but minus the resort the only people seeing the wall after a few years are going to be border agents.
I have thought though that the wall should be a national park and tagging should be encouraged...it could be sold as a national art gallery....and that would attract people...most of the wall that exists today is pretty well tagged already...
Posted on 12/18/16 at 9:09 am to League Champs
yeah, build it high enough so our military can stand lookout and practice their marksmanship and stop the illegals from coming across the border...kill two birds with one stone, so to speak 
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