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[–] Master_Foo 6 points -6 points 0 points (+0|-6) ago
I'm not sure what Trump was thinking on this one.
If Trump wants a damn wall so fucking badly, why doesn't he go down to Home Depot. Buy some fucking concrete with his own fucking cash. Start laying bricks on the California coast and work his way to the coast of Texas? Maybe then something will get done.
But, no get this. His solution is to go beg the Mexican president to do it for him. What is this idiot thinking? Does Trump think this is some kind of reality TV show, where the Mexican president is going to be his next apprentice or something?
LOL. Well, he's not Hillary. So, I guess I'm still going to vote for this joke regardless.
[–] gentlemanadventurer 0 points 9 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago
You can read and write but you lack the ability to understand. Mexico's primary economic engine is remittance. Remittance has now surpassed their oil exports. In case you are unaware of the definition of remittance, let me give you a brief simplified explanation. Remittance is where a people of a foreign nation work in an adopted nation and send the majority of monies earned, via working, welfare, drugs sales, prostitution, human trafficking, other criminal activity, etc, back home.
Mexico will never spend money on their own people until they are forced. America is a sovereign nation, our success is not Mexico's excuse for not creating a function non-parasitic economy. Ending remittance and ending foreign aid which can be done with a pen and a phone call, will force Mexico into three possible situations. Because remember foreign aid in not mandatory or indefinite.
1.) Lose the vast majority of 1.2 trillion dollar economy with another 400 million yearly.
2.) Build a sustainable economy to support it's own people.
3.) Pay for the wall.
Which one do you believe they will choose?
[–] KosherHiveKicker 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The United States has paid enough all ready to deal with the multitude of problems that Mexico actually causes.
Mexico literally allows hundreds of Central/South Americans to ride "The Beast" train illegally all the way from it's southern border up to eventually get trafficked into the U.S.