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Who should pay for the US/Mexican wall?

Who should pay for the construction of the US-Mexico wall?

  • US citizens: we'll pay so much we'll become so poor the bad gringo's will steal elsewhere

    Votes: 8 4.2%
  • Mexico: surely they don't want to make Trump look like a liar, right?

    Votes: 15 7.8%
  • US millionaires and billionaires: because apparently they love putting walls around people they love

    Votes: 12 6.3%
  • Donald J. Trump: the one person on the planet who's really passionate about building it

    Votes: 48 25.0%
  • No one: I'm with border specialists, congress and the democrats who believe it's a waste of money

    Votes: 92 47.9%
  • I strongly object to the subjective nature of this poll! Also: I'm a sourpuss who doesn't get humor

    Votes: 17 8.9%

  • Total voters
    192
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Well, it's a democracy or so as they say, right? Trump and Trump supporters.

Also, if US/Guaidó attempt to drill thru Venezuela they will not succeed. Venezuela will not become another Libya.
 

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Well, it's a democracy or so as they say, right? Trump and Trump supporters.

Also, if US/Guaidó attempt to drill thru Venezuela they will not succeed. Venezuela will not become another Libya.
The thing is that Trump supporters were led to believe that Mexico would pay for it. Acting on the basis that someone else pays for things tends to give different results (I bet most if not all democrats wouldn't mind getting a free wall next to their country). The most democratic approach in this situation would be holding a fundraiser for the project.

Perhaps kickstarter can prevent a second shutdown? :P

Oh, and...I'm not sure what that second paragraph is about (Venezuela is a couple thousand kilometers away from the premisse), but maybe it's better to start a second thread about it. :unsure:
 
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Saiyan Lusitano

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From a standpoint, it makes sense US would want to have walls but they're forgetting that Mexico is a country that cares about its people and security so the US govt is targeting the wrong people. The whole "Mexicans" have been dragged through the mud so much that many think "Mexicans" and "Latinos" exist to replace them.

Neither 'Mexican' nor 'Latino' are races. Mexican is a nationality and Latino/a (male/female) is a person who has Latin ancestry but anyone who supposedly looks or speaks some sort of Spanish is "Latino" so the lines have been blurred very much.
 

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