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In reply to the discussion: Why don't we give him the wall for healthcare? [View all]herding cats
(20,054 posts)Not good enough for you? I have some stuff I could say about the stealing of the land from its current US owners, but that The actual cost will be more like 60-67 billion dollars. Thats money spent on a wall which is geoglist say is gonna be a big huge fail, no matter how much money they funnel into it.
People want healthcare which covers their families, their preexisting medical conditions and they also want their mom and dad to have affordable healthcare with options for their long-term care. We're on the right side of this, we don't need to give Trump anything, let alone his stupid wall, for healthcare.
Then there's the racist part, I realize not all people in the Big Tent give a shit about that now-a-days, but it's still a huge issue for the majority of us in here, and not being asshole racists is a HUGE plank in our platform. Several planks, actually.
Oh, and the diplomatic problems with Mexico... they're pretty massive, too. They're the second largest buyers of US goods ($231 billion in 2016), so we really can't just go just pissing them off over something which is already a really, really bad idea, just to make Trump feel good.
Which brings me to my last point, Fuck Trump and his stupid wall!