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And even on the wall, there is some value in showing the American people how much their political elite despises them, how the open border lobby will eagerly protect special interests and foreign citizens at the expense of Americans. We needed this stuff out in the open.
The wall is simple, a straightforward engineering project with a relatively fixed cost (subject to the usual government bloat, of course) and progress that can be measured with a ruler.
If our political class can't handle a project as simple as the wall, how could anyone possibly trust them with the more complicated, expensive, and easily sabotaged aspects of border security?
It's ridiculous for people who can't handle a few hundred miles of fence to babble about high-tech virtual security systems and thousands of bureaucrats processing millions of applications that fill billions of sheets of paper.
Take a look at the "budget deals" negotiated to resolve the wall impasse - deals in which most of America's political class is negotiating AGAINST US on behalf of foreign nationals - and you will plainly see a very dirty little secret.
The budget is stuffed with billions of dollars to accommodate the tidal wave of immigrants, including illegals - far more money than would be needed to build the wall. And THAT is one of the big reasons why the wall will never be built: it would shut off the spending spigot.
The political class whines about the expense of the wall, but in truth what they really hate about it is that it would be CHEAP. A fixed amount would be spent to complete the project, and then pressure for government spending on illegals would be greatly reduced forevermore.
In contrast, under the current open borders arrangement, the opportunities for government spending are limitless and eternal. Spending baselines increase forever as more benefits are dispensed and more bureaucrats are hired.
The pathologies that result from open borders lunacy provide even more opportunities to spend money at federal, state, and local levels, from crime to drugs. It's a cornucopia of social spending that will never stop pouring out rotten fruit.
But if we build the wall, all those lovely opportunities for government spending dry up. $X billion one time to build the wall vs. $XX billion per year, forever, to manage the problems created by its absence? Not a tough call AT ALL for America's political class. /end
