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Showing Original Post only (View all)Why don't we give him the wall for healthcare? [View all]
Wall is a stupid idea but not super harmful and not that expensive.
Why not trade up a real and good healthcare plan and him parade around his wall? Let it be the most beautiful wall ever if we can keep key elements of healthcare and make it better.
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True. It's VERY expensive. And parts can't be done, probably. There's a river, for one thing.
Honeycombe8
May 2017
#47
Expensive ineffective environmental disaster, smothered in racist scapegoating
struggle4progress
May 2017
#10
Furthermore, Trump isn't even aware of the health-care details. It's Ryan who is driving this wreck.
WinkyDink
May 2017
#18
First, the "Border Wall" is a metaphor for a 21st century Iron Curtain to keep us IN ...
Hekate
May 2017
#21
I wouldn't piss in his mouth if his throat were on fire. Please excuse my language.
mahatmakanejeeves
May 2017
#28
Crossings are way down. Why make it into a defacto war zone? Most undocumenteds ....
Hekate
May 2017
#62
I was thinking even if the poster isn't concerned with the cost, human toll or neighborly relations
lunasun
May 2017
#56
You agree with the immigration policy and new procedures? The wall is PART of that that cannot be s
bettyellen
May 2017
#59
For one thing it could potentially lead to the extinction of jaguars, ocelots, Mexican gray wolf.
herding cats
May 2017
#61