Paul Ryan: House will "front" wall $$$, "a lot of different ways of getting Mexico to contribute"

[Miles Archer]

US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said on Wednesday the House would fund a wall President Donald Trump wants to build along the U.S.-Mexico border.

“We’re going to pay for it and front the money up,” Ryan said in an interview with MSNBC when asked who is going to pay for the wall.

“There are a lot of different ways of getting Mexico to contribute to doing this,” Ryan said.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/paul-ryan-says-us-house-will-put-up-funds-to-build-mexico-border-wall-msnbc-interview/

[Iggo]

1. Really? A lot? Name two, Mr Speaker.

I'm waiting...

[Revanchist]

5. Tariffs? N/T

[Iggo]

19. Thank you, Mr Speaker. (n/t)

[Blue_true]

30. Mexico can simply impose counter tariffs.

While we will strangle them more than they strangle us, both of us will end up just as dead. I am getting more and more evil in my heart, I actually WANT Trump and republicans to impose tariffs on other countries and have those countries respond in kind. I want modern Americans to see what the Great Depression that President Obama DIDN'T get credit for saving us from eight years ago looks and feels like. Maybe once we are in it, the modern Republican Party will die.

[uponit7771]

33. +1, its like when we put apple bitter on our electric cords to get the dog to stop chewing on them..

... took us ONCE ... she NEVER EVER chewed on all of our unplug cords again.

I don't know if Benedict Donald is that fast of a learner though

[meadowlark5]

2. Yeah, no

Unless they figure out a way to extort the money, Mexico will never willingly pay us back for it.

Net loss to the US tax payer.

[riversedge]

3. So, Trump lies and us taxpayers have to ante up???? OMG. #Resist Time for another March! call

ryan office NOW--and your congress critters!

[ck4829]

4. "Front the money"? I thought this was Trump's America now...

If you don't like the work, then you don't pay.

[spanone]

6. they always find money for their shit programs. they made Obama pay for every fucking penny.

[chillfactor]

7. Ryan is as much of a dufus as the orange one is....

by the time the orange one and congress get done, this country will be in shambles. Tell us disastrous house speaker, just WHERE are these millions of dollars coming from to build a wall that is not needed and just HOW do you think you and the bird-brained prez are going to get Mexico to contribute one penny?

[dogman]

8. Maybe if you spell Mexico, M-e-d-i-c-a-i-d.

That's already begun.

[SammyWinstonJack]

24. That, right there.

[Cattledog]

9. $15 billion is the estimated cost.

And that is for "fencing". Will that be cash or credit card?

[Guilded Lilly]

10. Bullshit, Ryan. Gonna steal from social security again?

[SticksnStones]

11. Front?! Is there an account in the Caymens we're unaware of, Paul?

[JI7]

12. COWARD

[lindysalsagal]

13. Calling all conservatives: you just got hosed.

Open wallet and close your eyes.

[Skittles]

16. no, we are ALL getting hosed

thanks to STUPID conservative voters

seriously, the SHIT they fall for - GAWD

[Tikki]

21. And the money to hunt for invisible 3 million votes...from your pockets, too...

trump is running up a big tab and leaving the table and waiting for you to pay the bill.



Tikki

[lindysalsagal]

23. And this is just week one. It will continue: Wasted $$. All cons know how to do.

[Mc Mike]

14. When it's for something important, the deficit hawk repugs can find the money.

If it actually benefits Americans, instead of orange hitler's nazi ideology, though, that's a different matter.

[LeftInTX]

15. From Mr. Penny Pincher himself

This wall is nothing but a boondoggle. A waste of time and money. Maybe when his says "House will put up funds", they can take it out of their paychecks.

[Kittycow]

32. + 1 Boondoggle. ..the BEST boondoggle !

[TrekLuver]

17. They should just send Vinnie and Vito down to Mexico and do a shakedown.

Unreal

[rgbecker]

18. Supposedly, a million cross the border legally daily.

A simple $1 charge (as in toll) would raise $365,000,000 yearly. This would pay for a 10 billion dollar project in 30 years.

I predict an idea along these lines.

That Ryan would even consider this project for a minute, tells me the problem in not just that we have Trump in the White House, but that the nutty GOP will take the country straight to Hell.

[titaniumsalute]

20. Yeah. Liars. Every one of them.

[onethatcares]

22. if we could only get

President Obama to back such a wall, they would never fund it and they'd ridicule it as "Obamawall" finding a billion reasons it couldn't and wouldn't be done.

[smirkymonkey]

25. Do we get absolutely no say in this stupid-ass waste of money?

I have just been floored lately by the things that Trump is signing off on and that we are just helpless to influence in any way. I really do feel like we are living in a dictatorship. My head is spinning. I know that legally he probably isn't doing anything wrong, but it just seems so WRONG! Nobody is fighting for us and I feel that we have no means to counter these decisions. I am beyond frustrated and angry!

[gratuitous]

26. I seem to remember this

"I will gladly pay you Martes for a hamburguesa today."

/

[gratuitous]

27. Each of the 60 million people who voted for Trump could pungle up $350

Maybe make it $400, just in case there are cost overruns. How about it, Mr. Speaker? Want to tap all those patriotic Americans to help keep Trump's solemn promise?

[Tanuki]

28. Ryan is acting like it's the "House's" money. It's OUR money

(everybody except tax deadbeat Trump's, who hasn't contributed to society in decades). Even his idiot supporters might not have been so Gung ho about his vanity wall if they knew they were going to be the ones stuck with the bill. You'd think an illegitimate usurper who lost the popular vote by multimillions would be a bit more circumspect. His idiot supporters should have paid attention to the fact that he has made a career out of sticking other people with the bill and then taking all the credit or profit.

[spanone]

29. hypocrites of the highest magnitude

[ALBliberal]

31. I miss Boehner eom.