LIB,MR BEARS said:
That price tells me it is a colossal waste of money. I'm all for a wall and increased border security with controlled immigration but, this price is anything but a good use of money.
Such as the grid for starters. Abbott is clearly not interested in actual governing.boognish_bear said:LIB,MR BEARS said:
That price tells me it is a colossal waste of money. I'm all for a wall and increased border security with controlled immigration but, this price is anything but a good use of money.
Agree.feels like that amount of money could better serve Texans in other areas.
That's a hell of a lot to spend on a physical structure that may not even do much to slow border crossing any way.
I gave him some benefit of the doubt early in the pandemic, but he's become a full-on Trump sycophant in the last year. He's been far more interested in playing and appealing to that base than leading, and it has shown.PartyBear said:Such as the grid for starters. Abbott is clearly not interested in actual governing.boognish_bear said:LIB,MR BEARS said:
That price tells me it is a colossal waste of money. I'm all for a wall and increased border security with controlled immigration but, this price is anything but a good use of money.
Agree.feels like that amount of money could better serve Texans in other areas.
That's a hell of a lot to spend on a physical structure that may not even do much to slow border crossing any way.
There's also the eminent domain issue.boognish_bear said:LIB,MR BEARS said:
That price tells me it is a colossal waste of money. I'm all for a wall and increased border security with controlled immigration but, this price is anything but a good use of money.
Agree.feels like that amount of money could better serve Texans in other areas.
That's a hell of a lot to spend on a physical structure that may not even do much to slow border crossing any way.
You mean taking of private land for just compensation to build a public work when building the wall? That would be opposed to allowing thousands of people to enter illegally, trespass on farms, homes, and private businesses, and destroy crops and private property without actually paying the people for the loss incurred?J.B.Katz said:There's also the eminent domain issue.boognish_bear said:LIB,MR BEARS said:
That price tells me it is a colossal waste of money. I'm all for a wall and increased border security with controlled immigration but, this price is anything but a good use of money.
Agree.feels like that amount of money could better serve Texans in other areas.
That's a hell of a lot to spend on a physical structure that may not even do much to slow border crossing any way.
Trumplicans did not come off as the part of individual rights when they started commandeerig ppls property along the border to build this wall.
Don't worry, they'll print more.LIB,MR BEARS said:
That price tells me it is a colossal waste of money. I'm all for a wall and increased border security with controlled immigration but, this price is anything but a good use of money.
eminent domain used to build a mall, not so good...J.B.Katz said:There's also the eminent domain issue.boognish_bear said:LIB,MR BEARS said:
That price tells me it is a colossal waste of money. I'm all for a wall and increased border security with controlled immigration but, this price is anything but a good use of money.
Agree.feels like that amount of money could better serve Texans in other areas.
That's a hell of a lot to spend on a physical structure that may not even do much to slow border crossing any way.
Trumplicans did not come off as the part of individual rights when they started commandeerig ppls property along the border to build this wall.
very trueBaylorOkie said:Don't worry, they'll print more.LIB,MR BEARS said:
That price tells me it is a colossal waste of money. I'm all for a wall and increased border security with controlled immigration but, this price is anything but a good use of money.
tombeaux said:
Our grandchildren will go to museums and see pieces of this stupid wall on display, then look up at their parents and ask, "Were grandma and grandpa stupid?"
Carlos Cruz said:tombeaux said:
Our grandchildren will go to museums and see pieces of this stupid wall on display, then look up at their parents and ask, "Were grandma and grandpa stupid?"
Will they call you stupid in English or Spanish?
The Chinese and their wall say otherwise.tombeaux said:Carlos Cruz said:tombeaux said:
Our grandchildren will go to museums and see pieces of this stupid wall on display, then look up at their parents and ask, "Were grandma and grandpa stupid?"
Will they call you stupid in English or Spanish?
Neither. The wall fetish won't fare well over time.
In reality the USA global empire might not even exist by the time any of your fictitious grandchildren show up.tombeaux said:
Our grandchildren will go to museums and see pieces of this stupid wall on display, then look up at their parents and ask, "Were grandma and grandpa stupid?"
You can fund a state government two ways: either have high income taxes or high property taxes.ScruffyD said:
What do we do right?
Property taxes are out of control.
Trump's popularity soared in basically all the border countiesJ.B.Katz said:There's also the eminent domain issue.boognish_bear said:LIB,MR BEARS said:
That price tells me it is a colossal waste of money. I'm all for a wall and increased border security with controlled immigration but, this price is anything but a good use of money.
Agree.feels like that amount of money could better serve Texans in other areas.
That's a hell of a lot to spend on a physical structure that may not even do much to slow border crossing any way.
Trumplicans did not come off as the part of individual rights when they started commandeerig ppls property along the border to build this wall.
Securing the border is not just important to Texas, it's important to America.
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) June 22, 2021
That's why @dougducey & I invoked the Emergency Management Assistance Compact.
Now, other states are standing with TX & AZ to secure the border in Biden's absence. https://t.co/Nf7ilNbjjQ
The Texas border wall is officially up.
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) December 18, 2021
While Biden does nothing, we are stepping up to protect our communities.
The Lone Star State is securing the border. pic.twitter.com/oYuY4zYLQl
Wangchung said:
Imagine being so politically biased you convince yourself that walls don't work. ****ing WALLS. Incredible.
Wrong. Abbott went a long time not doing anything significant about the border, even after Trump left office. It took Tucker Carlson's daily berating and airing of his political opponents to get him to move on this crisis.SSadler said:
Abbott is a do-as-Trump-says GOOBER!
Why? Because he left to a warm clime? After trading mean tweets and good results for a dementia ridden commie who is not even charge of his own administration, double-digit inflation, and one foreign policy embarrassment after another, I think I will not be voting against policy or for a Democrat for a very long time.J.B.Katz said:And when the leaders fly off to Cancun leaving their constituents and their dog to freeze to death in the cold and dark. Anybody who votes for Cruz after that is a dumbass.bear2be2 said:As a proponent of moderate, pragmatic governance, I have little use for "leaders" on either extreme of the political spectrum. But it's hard to make a compelling case for your side when it can neither heat or cool its citizens without a blackout or a threat of one.Rawhide said:If it was run by more liberals, they wouldn't get anything right.Porteroso said:
Texas is run by some of the biggest idiots ever. It's amazing the state manages to do anything right.
Just look at the California and New York... imbeciles have been in charge in those places for way too long.
