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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2018, @07:59PM (2 children)
Sweet jesus, you actually linked to Trump's twitter post "Let’s not do a shutdown, Democrats - do what’s right for the American People!"
The fuck is wrong with you? A video where Hillary and Obama say we need tougher security? A video where Hillary is doing political pandering to a group of older people? Color me shocked.
You are an imbecile. Border security is great, a stupid wall is not and I can't believe you are promoting such a corrupt infrastructure project. I mean how would they get over the wall? “Once they get up there,” he said, “there will be no way to get down. Well, maybe a rope, but...” -RDJT
Did I mention you're a stupid bigoted piece of crap? It is ok, I can never mention that enough.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @04:42AM (1 child)
I know, right? Israel must also be full of a bunch of retards!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @04:21PM
Israel is a modern realization of Nazi Germany. All they've done is swap out Aryans for Jews and decide instead of exterminating themselves, they'll exterminate the Palestinians.
If anything, it's another example of how abuse causes abuse. When somebody or even an entire ethnic group apparently is severely abused, the abused becomes the abuser. Though abuse is a rather light term for genocide.
The only way out of the cycle of abuse is compassion, as Jesus taught. We don't have to be religious to see the wisdom in these ancient teachings.