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matt819

(10,749 posts)
21. Brilliant!
Tue Feb 5, 2019, 03:12 PM
Feb 2019

Just when you thought he couldn't get more insane.

It would be a job creator, though.

2,000 miles x 5,280 feet per mile = 10,560,000 feet

Assume 2' width per person with arm-linking = 5,280,000 people.

Times 3 shifts =15,540,000 people per day.

So, 15,540,000 people at the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour

That's $901,320,000 per day. Every day. That's $328,981,800,000 per year.

So, not a real cost saver.

But, of course, like everything else he says, he just pulled this out of his ass.


Great strategy. greymattermom Feb 2019 #1
Like HANDS ACROSS AMERICA? ArizonaLib Feb 2019 #25
That didn't work well the last time it was tried, when it was known as "Pickett's Charge." NT mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2019 #2
Excellent analogy. NurseJackie Feb 2019 #4
Actually, THAT wall held.. pangaia Feb 2019 #13
Futurama destroyed that theory in 3 seconds: Initech Feb 2019 #3
+1 Hugin Feb 2019 #7
Tunnel under a wall! Fly over a wall! Travel by water to a coastal shoreline around a wall? Freethinker65 Feb 2019 #5
Creepy. Hugin Feb 2019 #6
Migrant children whose parents tried to apply for assylum... 2naSalit Feb 2019 #8
republicans are truly sick Achilleaze Feb 2019 #9
He has been working on this for a long time Midnightwalk Feb 2019 #10
+1 Auggie Feb 2019 #15
With what, Donnie? The bones of children? Squinch Feb 2019 #11
+1 Canoe52 Feb 2019 #17
I'm sure Trump can be the *cough* anchor *cough* to the human wall. The Truth Is Here Feb 2019 #12
He'd cover a good half mile or so if he'd just lay down on the border. forgotmylogin Feb 2019 #16
One sick cookie (n/t) FreepFryer Feb 2019 #14
it went from steel, to concrete, to slats and now human flesh. Javaman Feb 2019 #18
Soylent Green Cement? tanyev Feb 2019 #19
Sandcastles would be nice IcyPeas Feb 2019 #20
Brilliant! matt819 Feb 2019 #21
A human wall for Trump's non event. damn riversedge Feb 2019 #22
Trump just wants a budget crisis along with Constitutional crisis. KY_EnviroGuy Feb 2019 #23
Are these going to be living or dead WhiteTara Feb 2019 #24
I picture a wall of horizontal human bricks. Hope that delisen Feb 2019 #27
I see them vertical like a picket fence WhiteTara Feb 2019 #29
Go for it. Nothing the military loves more than a babysitting mission NickB79 Feb 2019 #26
It's a way forward, a way to save face and yet bmbmd Feb 2019 #28
"If we had a real wall, this would be a non-event." Haggis for Breakfast Feb 2019 #30
Interesting Idea Homer Wells Feb 2019 #31
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