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csziggy

(34,136 posts)
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 11:19 AM Jun 2018

$25 billion for a border wall?

OK, give it to them - but out of that $25 billion must come ALL the costs of housing parents and children separated at the border, the costs of reuniting every single family, the legal costs to the families and to the government as the "zero tolerance" policy plays out, the costs to communities across the country for policing the protests against family separation, and any other costs from this mis-administration's bigoted policies. Oh - don't forget reparations paid to families for the stress, counseling needed so that the children can recover from their experiences at the hands of the government paid goons.

Of course not one penny of that $25 billion can be spent on a wall until every single case is fully resolved and damaged determined and settled. I think it could take decades before that happens.

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$25 billion for a border wall? (Original Post) csziggy Jun 2018 OP
why you don't negotiate with terrorists lapfog_1 Jun 2018 #1

lapfog_1

(29,199 posts)
1. why you don't negotiate with terrorists
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 11:23 AM
Jun 2018

IT IS always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say: –
"We invaded you last night – we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away."

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld
And then you'll get rid of the Dane!


http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_danegeld.htm

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