Originally Posted by Ancient

no, trump could not to be a threat. theres a lot of land he needs to cover, and if hes actually thinking wether he could do it or not, hes retarded and if he does it he will drain americas economy

Originally Posted by kendrikLMR

How would it drain america's economy? Where do you think the money is going?

Originally Posted by Sense

The 30 foot tall, 1000 mile long concrete wall that he wants to build, blocking off Mexico form the United States..

spending money makes the economy better, not worse

Originally Posted by kendrikLMR

How would it drain america's economy? Where do you think the money is going?

Originally Posted by hawkesnightmare

Building and maintaining a wall would be an enormous cost, estimated to be somewhere between $15 billion and $25 billion just to build the thing, not including excavation, land acquisition and maintenance, with the total cost estimated to be >$30 billion for construction and another $2.2 billion/year in maintenance and personnel management. Who's gonna foot that bill? Mexico? They've stated repeatedly that they will do no such thing, and are more than willing to walk away from various ongoing and future negotiations with the US if the issue is forced. So if not Mexico, then who? Where in the US budget is this money going to be pulled from? The only portion of the US budget that wouldn't be crippled from this is military spending, which needs to be cut back already.