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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: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 16 2018, @12:17AM (8 children)
So, exactly which "authority" do you consider to be unbiased?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16aMqCBNNqk [youtube.com]
That's CBS - "every day, every hour"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pnl6p-4UAY [youtube.com]
That is ABC news.
I hope you don't think these two MSM networks are supporting Trump.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by NotSanguine on Sunday December 16 2018, @01:42AM (6 children)
I don't consider anyone to be unbiased unless I can see the data, the methodology and the analysis.
And I'm not going to watch the assuredly moronic youtube videos you linked.
Post links to some actual data. Or you're talking out of your ass.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 16 2018, @03:01AM (5 children)
That reply deserves a great big "FUCK YOU". This is current events, and I've linked to news stories carried by two different news agencies. If you think that anthropology is something that you can put in a lab, set up experiments, get consistent, reproducible results, then it is you who is talking out his ass. You might as well ask for a working reproduction of the universe.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Sunday December 16 2018, @03:08AM (4 children)
You're dumb. Or being quite disingenuous.
I'm going with dumb. Meth [tweaker.org] is a hell of a drug, eh Runaway?
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 16 2018, @03:11AM (3 children)
If that's where you want to go with this conversation, then, "No, YOU!"
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Sunday December 16 2018, @03:22AM (2 children)
That's the problem. This isn't a conversation.
I make an argument and provide actual data. You post links to videos and scream "neener neener! I'm right and you're wrong."
That's not a conversation. That's you performing mental masturbation.
While mutual masturbation can be fun under the right circumstances, SN and you are most certainly not it.
Carry on with your blather. I'll be at the adults table.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @04:31AM
"Your sources don't agree with my world view. I'm leaving."
(Score: 2, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 16 2018, @06:55AM
I posted links from news sources. The videos happen to be hosted on Youtube, but they are accredited news sources. Pretty much all news sources have a presence on Youtube, and if they don't maintain their own presence, some of their stuff ends up there anyway.
Fact is, the illegals are flowing across the border as fast as they please.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Sunday December 16 2018, @04:16AM
Your first link documents 62, the second one adds 4 more, but all 66 of those are probably deported by now. That leaves only 50 million more for you to document.