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Delmette2.0

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14. +1,000

Reply to Magoo48 (Reply #13)

Wed May 22, 2019, 09:29 AM

May 2019

Or should I say +1,000,000?

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US Wall Funding of $1.57 Billion Yields 1.7 Miles Of Fence (*$920 million per mile) [View all] kpete May 2019 OP

Must be 24 karat gold plated at that ridiculous price. democratisphere May 2019 #1

wow, this is nothing like the one with leather and spikes that the orange asshole wanted LOL nt Javaman May 2019 #2

"It's so hard to finf good fencing nowadays!" struggle4progress May 2019 #3

Wonder how much was kicked back to him personally??? Magoo48 May 2019 #13

+1,000 Delmette2.0 May 2019 #14

Trump is not getting much for all our tax money. procon May 2019 #4

So much for Ohiogal May 2019 #5

Mexico will pay for it, right? superpatriotman May 2019 #6

So he and his fraudster buddies got a 95% skim? WOW? OregonBlue May 2019 #7

Yep. Nay May 2019 #12

WTF? Baitball Blogger May 2019 #8

trace that steel. i wanna know who got the money. mopinko May 2019 #9

Made in Canada Mopar151 May 2019 #28

U.S. Wall Funding of $1.57 Billion Yields 1.7 Miles of Fence ... this rate he'll be done in ... marble falls May 2019 #10

at that rate, the almost 2 thousand miles of fence NewJeffCT May 2019 #34

Speaking of Government Boondoggles and Supreme Wastes of Taxpayer Money... dlk May 2019 #11

Almost 1 billion dollars per mile? We'll need another $2 trillion. Ilsa May 2019 #15

This is OUR tax dollars. This is the money we worked our asses off for Ferrets are Cool May 2019 #16

+1 ooky May 2019 #20

+2 FiveGoodMen May 2019 #32

Easy math! Repeal the Repub tax breaks and we could afford it! Wounded Bear May 2019 #17

I know *I* feel a lot safer now! Buns_of_Fire May 2019 #18

Misleading numbers, they are still building more of the fucking thing Amishman May 2019 #19

An obscene waste of money. logosoco May 2019 #21

Just saying, somewhere in all of this tRump is personally siphoning Enoki33 May 2019 #22

Agreed 100% pandr32 May 2019 #30

Maybe a tidy profit for the corpos involved as well? jalan48 May 2019 #23

Could have saved some money if they had hired undocumented workers to build it. progressoid May 2019 #24

I wonder how much of the Transportation and Housing and Urban Development bill tRump diverts yaesu May 2019 #25

WTF?! Bayard May 2019 #26

This is probably BS maxsolomon May 2019 #27

Thank goodness they do not sell ladders in Mexico!! Laf.La.Dem. May 2019 #29

Or ropes and grappling hooks. BSdetect May 2019 #31

... demmiblue May 2019 #33

Diaper Donnie's stunt wall sure is expensive! Blue Owl May 2019 #35