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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.

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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/


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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 16 2018, @12:02AM (8 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday December 16 2018, @12:02AM (#774973) Journal

    Before Bush, or Dubya, took office, the estimate was twenty million. That same twenty million has floated around, all through his administration, then Obama's administration. Try to get a grip on that. BEFORE BUSH, during the Clinton years, both parties acknowledged that there were 20 million illegals.

    Every single year since then, the illegals have been coming in. One year, there are more, next year there are fewer, then there are more again.

    I call bullshit on all of it. Given that there were already twenty million, and they've continued to pour into the country since then, I'm calling it fifty million. Your paltry ten million is either an outright lie, or total ignorance. Your choice - I'm not just going to call you a liar.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @02:14AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @02:14AM (#775015)

    You realize "illegals" have nothing to do with the declining living standards of white men? You've fallen for the trap of identity politics to explain proletarian flattening. The only way for working class white men to improve their standard of living is the formation of the United Socialist States of America.

    • (Score: 2, Disagree) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 16 2018, @02:58AM (6 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday December 16 2018, @02:58AM (#775023) Journal

      Illegals are the tools used by the globalists to destroy our economy. NAFTA was the tool used by the same globalists to destroy Mexico's economy, such as it was. Liberals are the tools used to defend the use of the other tools.

      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @04:23AM (5 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @04:23AM (#775047)

        You are really cranking up the propaganda huh?

        Illegal immigrants actually help our economy. It seems more and more that you just assume the opposite of what a conservative says and you have a pretty good chance of getting to reality.

        Speaking of useful tools Runaway, way to spread the message.

        • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 16 2018, @06:52AM (4 children)

          by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday December 16 2018, @06:52AM (#775071) Journal

          That is complete and utter bullshit.

          https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/census-confirms-63-percent-of-non-citizens-on-welfare-4-6-million-households [washingtonexaminer.com]

          A majority of “non-citizens,” including those with legal green card rights, are tapping into welfare programs set up to help poor and ailing Americans, a Census Bureau finding that bolsters President Trump’s concern about immigrants costing the nation.

          In a new analysis of the latest numbers, from 2014, 63 percent of non-citizens are using a welfare program, and it grows to 70 percent for those here 10 years or more, confirming another concern that once immigrants tap into welfare, they don’t get off it.

          https://nypost.com/2018/03/10/cutting-welfare-to-illegal-aliens-would-pay-for-trumps-wall/ [nypost.com]

          Mexico won’t have to pay for the wall, after all. US taxpayers won’t have to pick up the tab, either. The controversial barrier, rather, will cover its own cost just by closing the border to illegal immigrants who tend to go on the federal dole.

          That’s the finding of recent immigration studies showing the $18 billion wall President Trump plans to build along the southern border will pay for itself by curbing the importation of not only crime and drugs, but poverty.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @10:47AM (3 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @10:47AM (#775086)

            Washington Examiner? Runaway, poor Runaway! Do you know who founded and owns that rag? Do you know who is lying to you, scaring you, and getting your panties all up in a bunch? Why are you wearing women's underware in the frist place? You are being used, bro, used and abused. Time to wake up and stop re-catapulting the propaganda.

            • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 16 2018, @12:39PM (2 children)

              by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday December 16 2018, @12:39PM (#775093) Journal

              Put some search terms into a search box, and find your own information. When I searched, I found several hits saying the same thing.

              And, listen to yourself. You're putting the Examiner down for what amounts to political distaste, but people mock us more sensible folk for dismissing your liberal rags.

              • (Score: 2) by sjames on Sunday December 16 2018, @08:57PM (1 child)

                by sjames (2882) on Sunday December 16 2018, @08:57PM (#775171) Journal

                I put some terms into a search box and learned the damnedest things. Bigfoot is real and thriving. The Earth is a flat disc balanced on the back of a turtle. Bat boy found a bat girl and got married, Wolfman Jack was an actual wolf-man! And there was this guy "Richard Stands" who asked everyone to say the Pledge of Allegiance.

                Wow, who knew?

                • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 16 2018, @09:20PM

                  by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday December 16 2018, @09:20PM (#775181) Journal

                  Well, I put a four foot level on the ground, and found that it IS flat! So, there!