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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBillions for trumps commemorative wall, nothing for national infrastructure.
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Billions for trumps commemorative wall, nothing for national infrastructure. (Original Post)
Crutchez_CuiBono
Jan 2019
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Clean public water, roads, bridges. Electrical grid...seems more of a security threat to me.
Crutchez_CuiBono
Jan 2019
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rampartc
(5,403 posts)1. the wall can be thought of as a stimulative public works project
but, of course, that would require careful mangement of the project which no one expects a trump appointee to do.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)2. Clean public water, roads, bridges. Electrical grid...seems more of a security threat to me.
NATIONWIDE put people to work.
rampartc
(5,403 posts)5. no doubt at all that the wall will never be completed and solves no problems
and that your list of priorities SHOULD take precedence.
how about the wall as an employer of last resort? a wpa/ccc type government project?
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)6. So...move to the border for a job?
When you can put people to work in their home states? I'm not sold, and am drinking bad tap water from the city everyday in some form.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)3. KGOP republicans are systematically weakening America
...and letting everything go to shit. Opening up HUGE security holes in the White House. And opening up HUGE holes in America's roads, bridges, and waterworks. Sick bastards.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)4. +1
So they can privatize the repair(?) of all of the above. Fuck the wall.