Funding the Wall

[UGetPaid]

I dont like where the tax money goes now.Help the poor,homeless and hungry instead of building more weapons and sending soldiers off to play war. Fix roads and bridges too.Healthcare as well.

A wall????LOL!

I agree with helping poor, hungry, and homeless; but your remark is really a bit of a slap to the face of the soldiers who help to protect your life and freedom. They are not "playing war" as you put it.

[UGetPaid]

I agree with you. I'd vote no because I also believe that it wouldn't achieve the intended "goal". I also look at the Berlin Wall and see all of the things that went wrong, and couldn't imagine it also happening here.

The Berlin Wall and the proposed US border wall are two completely different and unrelated things. Other than the fact that they both were walls, the similarities end there.

[hkckk5]

I say yes to the wall. Too many are coming here and jeopardizing our country. We will end up overcrowded and bankrupt.

[Legslangevan]

I dont like where the tax money goes now.Help the poor,homeless and hungry instead of building more weapons and sending soldiers off to play war. Fix roads and bridges too.Healthcare as well.

A wall????LOL!

I agree with helping poor, hungry, and homeless; but your remark is really a bit of a slap to the face of the soldiers who help to protect your life and freedom. They are not "playing war" as you put it.

That is more aimed at the government then the soldiers.Sorry if i support Jesus what he told Peter when he drew his sword.Freedom?This country has the worst healthcare system in the world as 1 example.Freedom from what?

I will take this a step furthur.In 1970/71 i passed my army physical.Vietnam was going strong then.If it wasnt for Nixons birthday lottery i may have gotten drafted.MY BD fell around 160.I never got drafted.I am not sure what i would have done then.But i can tell you now if i knew then what i know now i would NOT have gone to Vietnam and went to jail.

I dont support what Bin Laden did either.First off Gods name ISNT allah.He didnt support Jesus words either as many other religeons dont either.

[tjshorty]

I always thought the wall a stupid idea.  When considering all the illegals not all come walking.   Since I am of a suspicious nature when it comes to government funded ideas like this.  I think that wall would actually serve 2 purposes one to keep people out and the other to keep people in.  Not my idea of freedom.

[ngorecki]

one thing I do have to say about the funding  is that I do not think that president trump should take any of the credit for it.

[oldbuddy]

It would be interesting to know how many of the commenters on this question have ever even been to the Mexican border and seen how many people are trying to get into the USA. Or even worse, been to any agricultural community on the west coast and seen how many illegals are lined up to get public assistance, even as far away as the Pacific Northwest?

[sfreeman8]

If you ordered a hamburger and got charged for a cheeseburger im sure you wouldnt like it.My point is i could care less about a wall,so why should i pay for it?As i said above the tax money gets wasted as it is.You can use it better and it doesnt happen.Kinda insulting to now have to pay for something many dont want.You guys want it?You pay for it!!!

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.

Why dont we just sell the SOL and use the money for the wall?Most dont give a *am what is inscribed on it.

Do you realize when that statue's quote was made? Dp you do know what Castle Garden and Ellis Island in NY was? NO ONE came here free and easy. NO ONE sneaked into the country. They arrived at those 2 NY places (and every port in the country, but Ellis and Castle Garden were the heaviest traffic). All immigrants went through rigorous medical and mental vetting before being let into the country. If they had a fever, they were sent back or confined separately from others.

The quote on the statue is still honored.  This is what people don't understand. No one is against LEGAL immigration. It just doesn't apply to those who cheat and lie to come here illegally.