Brent's post in black, my responses in blue.
I am not against a secure border. I am against a 5 billion dollar project that has no details given, no final design, and is only doing to be able to build a couple hundred miles worth of Wall. If the Democrats and whiny Liberals would get out of the way, President Trump would haply build the whole wall, not just a few hundred miles. Why not just build a chain link fence with barbed wire?Because Fences do not work and never have, dumb suggestion, Heck my grand kids can climb a chain link fence, even with barbed wire on top. Any type of Wall is still going to need patrols and monitoring, so why build something with a price tag we can’t afford? The wall can't be climbed and the sensor are built into the ground, so the wall does not constantly need to be patrolled. Everything I have read shows that way more illegals come in legally and stay vs the ones crossing the desert. Remember I said I live in a border state and I can guarantee you more are crossing the border and enough are being caught to prove this fact. I don't know what Liberal B.S, site you are getting your numbers from but they are absolutely a lies. Sure, there are ones that cross and even die trying, but I’m mostly concerned with the bigger numbers. So it is okay for children to die in the desert because you are only concerned with the bigger numbers but not the generation after generations on welfare? Also with drugs, the coast guard gets ten times the amount of drugs vs the border and that’s by coastal routes. I think funding the coast guard more would do more good, and the border patrols. Brent all these agencies are currently funded and have not stopped the illegal aliens or the drugs, so why would just tossing more money at them work? And if you did toss more money, does that not defeat you balanced budget position, no more spending? No matter what happens though, wall or more security, neither is going to work alone. Without immigration reform, like immediate deportation when caught, nothing is going to work. Immigration reform is absolutely needed but we have to stop the inflow. The Democrats and Liberals are doing everything in their power to encourage more illegal aliens to keep coming. Sanctuary cities, refusing to work with ICE, releasing illegals back into society. These policies just add more and more encouragement to illegals to keep coming.
Sorry, I still say trump hasn’t done much for the economy. He was in at a time when it was heading up as he came in. Brent where do you get this information? I read six to seven news site daily and watch the market and I can guarantee you that the economy was not on the way back up, until the tax cuts were implemented and the deregulation started, What booted the economy was removing all the crap regulation that Obuma and authorized. There is no way his policies had time to affect it in his first year. Funny how lower the taxes on a company to return the money being held over seas will get a company off the dime. Now his policies have had time to really affect it and it’s tanking. I did not see you list the GDP growth for this year, about three times the best year for Obuma .His trade war and erratic behavior is affecting the market pretty negatively right now. The stock market did not start to tank until the Democrats won the House and started talking crap again. Let’s have this revisited in six months and we will see if his grand economic ideas are worth anything. In six months we will have had six months of B,S, from the Democrats and nothing will have gotten done, from a financial view point. Stocks are down 10% for the year and still heading down.Of course the stocks are headed down, nobody knows what stupid stuff the Democrats will propose or what development they will oppose. Investors do not like uncertainty and with a GOP Senate and a Democratic House, it does not get any more uncertain.
As far as lying goes, come on, 75% of what trump says is crap. He makes stuff up daily. You wonder why all the media coverage is against him? It’s because he is constantly making up facts. When anyone points out facts to contradict his statements he just throws out new ones, moving on. Hillary used a personal server, and Obama’s said you can keep your dr. As far as Hillary, it wasn’t smart, but not illegal. Brent once again you are mistaken, what Hillary did was illegal but Comey chose not to prosecute, Hilary did have classified information on a unsecured server and should have been jailed, Obama tried to make a good plan, but the polarized politicians beat it up so bad by the time it was done it wasn’t so good anymore. Brent, when Obumacare was implemented, not a single Republican had anything to do with it, not one GOP vote. So if it was screwed up by politicians, it was his own party that did it. How does that compare to everyone in trumps circle being indited on felonies? Want to bet on felonies after the 2020 election. The Clintons are going to jail and I think you will see a few more of Obuma's administration headed in that direction too.
Gotta run but will respond more later..
Figured it would be easier to respond to each line. I still am waiting for the cost saving technology you have used as an excuse to not fund the wall, as they would be more cost effective. In this post your suggestions would be more expensive and would be a continuing expense. There is only one statement in your post that I can consider factual. We do need immigration reform but until that happens and is proven, we need the wall. Chain link fences are ridiculous.
Back in your court.
