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As President Donald Trump threatened to allow a government shutdown if Congress did not provide funding for his proposed wall along the Mexican border, a Republican congressman from Ohio offered up alternative routes to getting the wall built: through Internet crowdfunding or through an initial coin offering.
During an interview with NPR's Morning Edition on December 12, Rep. Warren Davidson said that he had offered what he referred to as a "modest proposal" in the form of his "Buy a Brick, Build a Wall Act." The bill, which he submitted on November 30, would authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to accept monetary gifts from anyone "on the condition that it be used to plan, design, construct, or maintain a barrier along the international border between the United States and Mexico." The funds would go into an account called the "Border Wall Trust Fund," and a public website would be set up to process donations electronically.
Rep. Davidson told NPR's Steve Inskeep that the donations could come from anyone and be gathered in a number of ways."You could do it with this sort of, like, crowdfunding site," Davidson explained. "Or you could do it with blockchain—you could have Wall Coins."
Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/ohio-congressman-we-can-fund-border-wall-with-wallcoin/
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2018, @05:14PM (32 children)
Fucking people use 90% of their energy putting up fences, instead of making life better. They make the planet into a prison. They are psychopaths. We should kill psychopaths, not reward them with money and power.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2018, @05:19PM (7 children)
Open borders for everyone!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2018, @05:33PM (4 children)
Yes, for everyone
It has to be two way. Then we can go in and clean up.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Thexalon on Saturday December 15 2018, @06:18PM (3 children)
I'm reasonably certain that if you tried to move to Mexico or Central America, nobody would even try to stop you.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2018, @06:52PM
I'd even drive him to the border.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2018, @08:35PM
:-) Aha! I have! Got my own house and everything. The weather's beautiful. People are cool, and transport, food and beer are pretty cheap. Safer than Chicago or Detroit... I'm just sittin' here watch you people bitch instead of trying to fix the problem. You're a bunch of dumbasses!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2018, @09:33PM
Except the Mexicans and the Central Americans... Don't be a dumbass!
Tear down that wall!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2018, @08:47PM (1 child)
Exactly. This is the position of both the Libertarian Party [lp.org] and the Socialist Equality Party [socialequality.com] (ICFI). Not sure about the Green Party [gp.org] though.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday December 16 2018, @09:53PM
As long as you continue to have two state-sanctioned political parties in the US, those other parties are welcome to take whatever position they want, they're not ever going to get the chance to implement them, or even debate them.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday December 15 2018, @06:15PM (17 children)
Well, since it's too politically incorrect to kill them, we are trying to put up a wall to keep them out. And if you want to talk about rewarding them with money and power, that's exactly what the Democrat party does in exchange for welfare votes.
We are talking about a country that chainsaws peoples' heads off and dangles bodies from bridges recreationally, and even blaming Whitey for their problems doesn't convince civilized societies otherwise.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2018, @06:58PM
Hey San Diego has some good people too and I don't think it should be fenced off. It would almost be worth it if we also disabled your internet access, but I'll err on the side with millions of normals.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2018, @08:47PM (8 children)
we are trying to put up a wall to keep them out.
Well, you're doing a shitty job! They occupy the entire capitol building and the white house, and so many boardrooms, have for more than five decades at least. Your faux bigotry doesn't fool or impress me.
With open borders we can move in and domesticate the savages, the Brits had the right idea, but they never followed through. We could have had the whole world in the Commonwealth.
But on both sides, the psychos must die. You can detect it even in pre-adolesence. You don't give 'em second chance. This is for real. They will kill us all!
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday December 16 2018, @01:01AM (7 children)
If we open our borders, then we should require that those migrants stay contained within certain areas. I'm thinking San Francisco, New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Portland, and Seattle.
There are no better places than those to teach progressive, humane values to those who come from violence.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @02:54AM (6 children)
They're more productive on the farm. Anyway, let 'em live where they damn well please, like any other human being. And you can spend more winters in the tropics. Two way border, remember? You can sell your BMW in Mexico, open a bar, buy a nice vacation house, all that and more without borders.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday December 16 2018, @02:56AM (5 children)
No thanks, I like my head and my organs where they are, thank you very much.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @03:08AM (4 children)
Well, then I guess you better stay out of those cities you mentioned.
*sigh* you really believe all the fake news about the place? I mean, you're not really a dopey, Walmart shopping, drooling, mouth breathing redneck, are you?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday December 16 2018, @03:22AM (3 children)
I don't get the appeal. I've been to a few different cities there, but everything I can get there I can get here and not have to fear for my life or being shaken down by the cops (yes, that does happen a lot, especially in border Mexico -- your party is gonna pay at least 400 bucks for a get-out-of-jail free ticket).
I'm not enough of a Jew to think that the price point is worth the hassle and in case you were about to tell me "don't go do the touristy shit, go see real Mexico," yeah no. I was considering trying to travel to Europe before they imported all the dregs from Africa and the Middle-East. If I wanted to see a filthy third-world tent-city in the streets I don't even have to leave San Diego, I could just walk over to East village.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @03:27AM (1 child)
:-) Ah well, you sure do stay on script, damn near like a robot
Peace out, man!
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @04:02AM
You kidding me? He just said he "isn't enough of a Jew" which means he is part Jewish.
I think we may be witnessing the rebirth of Hitler
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @07:01AM
Man, you're just like the Trump People. You'll believe any bullshit that shares your bias. Maybe you really are a knuckle draggin' okie.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2018, @09:52PM
Welfare with the Democratic Party is like cake.
The working class is starting to figure out that the cake is a lie.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Saturday December 15 2018, @10:47PM (3 children)
I'm sorry, I thought that psychopath was a pre-requisite for CEO position consideration, are you telling me that our best CEO candidates are on welfare?
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by deimtee on Sunday December 16 2018, @02:01AM
Sociopathy is a necessary but not sufficient condition. They are also required to be intelligent, articulate, charismatic, and a lizard. Being tall and having convex genitalia helps too. Also, a strangely variable ability at golf where they beat those of lower status, but only just lose in a tight round with those of higher status.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by redneckmother on Sunday December 16 2018, @02:26AM (1 child)
Yes. Corporate welfare.
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday December 16 2018, @02:15PM
Brilliant - that explains why they are so good at working the system, practice!
The real trick, I suppose, is getting adopted by a mega-millionaire family who then pays to have a natural childbirth backstory fabricated for them.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @12:39AM
Holy crap. Back with Stupid The Sequel, Part 2.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday December 16 2018, @09:59PM
You've used up all your permits. [smbc-comics.com]
Although I suppose you could argue your subscription is your payment for more.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2018, @07:12PM
You sound like a psychopath...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @12:27AM (4 children)
Oh look, it's the fucking moron who doesn't see the connection between the first part of his statement and the second part.
I bet you leave the front door to your house wide fucking open.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @03:02AM (3 children)
I bet you're a dumbass! The connection as an inverse relationship. Fewer fences, better life. Killing the psychos makes it more likely to happen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @04:23AM
I mean, just look how peaceful Israel became after they tore down that wall!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 16 2018, @09:29PM (1 child)
Citation needed. If that were true, farmers and ranchers would want to tear down all their fences, and the suburbanites would thank them for it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @05:10AM
farmers and ranchers would want to tear down all their fences
Oh no, they need their fences, to keep them coyotes out. Each one of them can carry five Mexicans on their back.