Drug Wars tooooo close to home!

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by classicman

TGRR - where the Heck is the concrete?!?!?!?!

A wall isn't going to solve the problem. With the amount of trade between the United States and Mexico it would be impossible to inspect all the trucks and cars going in and out so everything would get in and out anyways. Not to mention if you got a few border guards under the paycheck of a drug cartel...

We would be spending billions of dollars on something that will only make it hard to cross the border, not stop. I don't see how that is worth it in any way. The money can be spend in more efficient matter to help solve the same problem.

Lets do the math. 1969 miles * 5280 (ft/mile) * 5 ft (width) * 15 ft (height) * (1ft^3/3^3yd^3) = 2.887e7 cubic yards of concrete.

Assume $70 a cubic yard

So a total cost of $2.02e9 or 2,021,000,000 or 2.021 TRILLION dollars for only the material cost.

Then labor costs come in. That is MUCH more then material costs so you can muliply that by five (maybe more??)

So assuming 10 trillion dollars for an initial cost along with annual maintenance costs it is completely unrealistic.


Other methods would be much more efficient.

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

Then labor costs come in. That is MUCH more then material costs so you can muliply that by five (maybe more??)

Well, we can save on the labour by employing ... ahh ... you know ... illegal imigrant Mexican day-labourers...

[xoxoxoBruce]

You could start by cutting the u. :p