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Trump's Wall Is Mathematically Unlikely

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday January 07 2018, @07:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the numbers-don't-lie dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Fred Reed's mathematical analysis of Trump's Wall proves that Trump is insincere, proves that Trump is mathematically incompetent, and earns Fred Reed an honorary nerd card:

https://fredoneverything.org/the-wall-the-sound-and-the-fury-and-not-much-else/

More math!

~childo

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by tonyPick on Sunday January 07 2018, @10:39AM (3 children)

    by tonyPick (1237) on Sunday January 07 2018, @10:39AM (#619081) Homepage Journal

    From https://fairus.org/issue/publications-resources/fiscal-burden-illegal-immigration-united-states-taxpayers [fairus.org] [fairus.org] we have this:

    Cost is $135 billion, taxes paid are $19 billion, net loss is $116 billion.

    Except that there are many problems with the way FAIR constructs it's estimates amongst other things:

    FAIR based its estimates on a pool of 13 million people in the country illegally. It includes at least 3.4 million children who are U.S. citizens born to undocumented parents.

    and

    FAIR bases its health care costs on a 2002 Florida Hospital Association survey that found unreimbursed emergency medical care for illegal immigrants toppled $40 million. But the survey includes responses from private hospitals that are not funded by the state.

    and

    FAIR produces the state's incarceration costs for illegal immigrants based on the state Department of Corrections' "illegal alien" count of inmates. However, no such count exists. Instead, the state keeps tabs on all inmates who are not U.S. citizens, whether they're in the country legally or illegally.

    and

    The 2013 FAIR study also includes about $2.47 billion in fraudulent use of Medicaid, though it said only anecdotal information is available.

    But to return to your point....

    Let's consider something else though, which a liberal ought to care about: the effect on poor Americans.

    You think spending tens of billions of dollars on something which will mainly increase the purchase of 31 foot sections of Rope in Mexico will somehow help poor Americans?

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by tonyPick on Sunday January 07 2018, @10:46AM (2 children)

    by tonyPick (1237) on Sunday January 07 2018, @10:46AM (#619085) Homepage Journal

    Bah :missing link for source reporting in the above [politifact.com]

    • (Score: 2, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @10:56AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @10:56AM (#619089)

      Politifact is about as biased as can be. It's one of those dishonest "fact checker" sites that the democrats cooked up as a tactic for spreading disinformation.

      The moment you take politifact seriously, you are discredited.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @01:59PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @01:59PM (#619144)

        Translation: "Everything politifact says is true, it just contradicts my worldview and all the cult propaganda I have been fed. It hurts my feelings!"