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posted by mrpg on Saturday December 15 2018, @05:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the Buy-a-Brick,-Build-a-Wall-Act dept.

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1984

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/


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by sjames on Saturday December 15 2018, @08:00PM (6 children)

    by sjames (2882) on Saturday December 15 2018, @08:00PM (#774911) Journal

    A couple? It was thousands.

    Let me guess, those babies had diaper rash in the shape of gang tats? You could swear that 3 year old was flashing gang signs?

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 16 2018, @12:46AM (5 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday December 16 2018, @12:46AM (#774990) Journal

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVnPPiLTMFk [youtube.com] Sorry, it's Fox News - I know what most people here think of Fox. A couple hundred women, children, and old folk at the front of the caravan, and a thousand or more military aged males following. Sara Carter supplies video evidence.

    • (Score: 2) by deimtee on Sunday December 16 2018, @02:21AM (1 child)

      by deimtee (3272) on Sunday December 16 2018, @02:21AM (#775016) Journal

      Ok, I watched that. The content was interesting but it was fucking painful putting up with that dickhead host talking over the reporter and pushing his agenda every time she spoke. How the hell can you tolerate watching such a shitty arsehole? It's like staring into an unwiped goatse.

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      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 16 2018, @02:43AM

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday December 16 2018, @02:43AM (#775019) Journal

        Fact is, I can't stand that kind of an asshole. I don't watch much of Fox, nor any other MSM news shows. I went searching for some specific terms, and that was about the third or fourth hit - I used it.

        But, seriously, the other networks have people just as bad. Perhaps some aren't as fucking RUDE to their own network associates, but they can and will be just as rude to "guests". The host has an agenda, and he aggressively steers the guest into meeting that agenda. Of all the hosts I've ever seen, Johnny Carson was among the best. He seldom had an agenda, and he allowed guests to --- perhaps not steer the conversation, but at least get their veiwpoint in.

        If you and I were sitting and chatting over coffee, or beer, would either of us force the conversation onto a single point of view of one specific topic? Hell no - a conversation is give and take. Rachel Madow, Young Turks, all of them, they force the conversation toward specific goals. I despise them.

    • (Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Monday December 17 2018, @10:47PM (2 children)

      by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Monday December 17 2018, @10:47PM (#775603)

      Fox News is well known for showing doctored videos (Acorn, Planned Parenthood for a couple examples) over and over to push their agenda. They never make any effort to correct that once the truth comes out about the videos. They have zero credibility. They are not even licensed as news, instead they are licensed as entertainment.

      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday December 18 2018, @02:25AM (1 child)

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday December 18 2018, @02:25AM (#775694) Journal

        Yeah, CNN is really bad for that kind of thing, isn't it?

        • (Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Friday December 21 2018, @10:40PM

          by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Friday December 21 2018, @10:40PM (#777343)

          Sadly, they seem to have been trying to lower their standards to match Fox in recent years.