Thursday 6 August 2020

Joe Biden says no no no to border wall

This is what I love about political leaders! One comes into power and spends big money on his or her pet project and then he/she loses the election and the next one comes in and vows to knock it all down or stop building it or remove all the money for the next phase or just gets parliament/Congress to vote against it. Whatever it is. This is what is happening with The Wall across the Mexican border. Trump promised to build a wall across the whole frontier and badgered the poor old Pentagon to cough up billions of dollars to help pay for the construction. Trump didn't do that well. He did manage some wall-building but much of it was just replacing old fencing with new defences but The Wall has been getting longer bit by bit. Now Joe Biden who looks more likely every week to be the next president of the United States has made it absolutely clear that the Trump Wall will be cast aside. No more building, no grabbing of land from farmers, no more expense. The Wall is so yesterday and so Trump. It's over, kaput, finished. Well I'm no fan of the Trump wall, it's a mighty waste of taxpayers' money and pretty inhumane for the poor, desperate people who have walked for a thousand miles to get to the dream land in the north, away from their miserable often frightening lives in Guatemala and Honduras and Mexico where they have had to face living with the horrendously brutal and murderous drug cartels. Who wouldn't want to flee from that sort of existence? Dealing with this problem has to be done humanely and sympathetically and compassionately. But Trump wanted a huge wall to stretch across the Mexico/US border to keep them out, never mind what sort of terror they had escaped from. OK, so I'm against the wall. But all that time and money is going to get thrown away if Biden becomes president. Four years of wasted effort. Trump has been trying to destroy Obamacare ever since he entered the White House and still hasn't come up with a decent alternative. I just feel sorry for the poor American taxpayer. Their hard-earned money gets thrown into stupid projects like The Wall and then the next fellow comes along and leaves what has been built to rot away. Another white elephant bites the dust.

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