Finally Trump's "acadabra" Wall Plan is not feasible and will not fly.
Let's say for the sake of argument Trump's wall plan managed to clear the intense legal hurdles in the courts and in the US Congress. Now he has to put in place a series of blackmail measures to bully Mexico to pay for his wall. Short of sending in the marines (even that's not feasible) it's very difficult to see Mexico succumbing to his bullying and blackmail. The chance of that happening is zero to none. The international and domestic outcry would be so loud that it will get the attention of even the tone-deaf Trump.
But let me concede, as far-fetched as that is, there is some support for his wall here in the United States. What he cannot see or understand as xenophobic and politically immature as he is, is that no Mexican government would ever give in to this kind of political blackmail -- the Mexican people would be so dead set against it that any talk of even countenancing a discussion on this subject would spell doom for the government.
My Final Comments.
Trump himself does not exactly know what his wall will cost. He's gone from $4 to 6, to maybe 8 or 10 and recently maybe 12 billion. Which is it O Befuddled One? And he's said that his wall will be 1,000 miles and at sometimes 30 ft. high and at others 50 ft. tall. And the actual plan to build the wall? He does not have one. It's all just talk, in my opinion, and a lack of understanding about how things really work.
Consider the following. Has he thought about the cost of materials? Or the costs to build and create roads, airstrips, housing, warehouses, transportation etc. -- an infrastructure - to allow for large trucks with machinery and materials? Or the cost of labor? All of these added to his cost of $$12 billion dollars can up the final cost to over $60 billion and nearer to $75 billion. That's a conservative estimate.
How will he really pay for it? Well, he points to the fact that last year's trade between the United States and Mexico created a deficit of $58 billion dollars. Trump is so ignorant when it comes to understanding exactly what trade deficits are that he believes that this is money "just lying there" that he can use to pay for his wall. That $58 billion is Mexican businesses money -- NOT THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT'S OWN. So will a President Trump just ILLEGALLY confiscate the money legally earned by Mexican businesses and order US banks to cough it up for his wall ?
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