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lapfog_1

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3. at that rate it will cost $20B more for the entire border

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 16, 2025, 05:27 PM

Mar 2025

BUT, the border area in Arizona and parts of California will be much more difficult to take materials to the border and build in mountainous terrain. Really rough areas.

So conservatively I would double the estimate to $40B

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Ooo, another 20'. Buddyzbuddy Mar 2025 #1

That much? Pas-de-Calais Mar 2025 #5

I was being generous. Buddyzbuddy Mar 2025 #6

Increasingly, I feel the walls are designed to keep us in. Legal "walls" between us & Canada... Hekate Mar 2025 #2

at that rate it will cost $20B more for the entire border lapfog_1 Mar 2025 #3

I really can't believe this madness is being sane washed. Fuck you MSM. Initech Mar 2025 #4