Nation with Crumbling Bridges and Roads Excited to Build Giant Wall

[Zorro]

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—As America’s bridges, roads, and other infrastructure dangerously deteriorate from decades of neglect, there is a mounting sense of urgency that it is time to build a giant wall.

Across the U.S., whose rail system is a rickety antique plagued by deadly accidents, Americans are increasingly recognizing that building a wall with Mexico, and possibly another one with Canada, should be the country’s top priority.

Harland Dorrinson, the executive director of a Washington-based think tank called the Center for Responsible Immigration, believes that most Americans favor the building of border walls over extravagant pet projects like structurally sound freeway overpasses.

“The estimated cost of a border wall with Mexico is five billion dollars,” he said. “We could easily blow the same amount of money on infrastructure repairs and have nothing to show for it but functioning highways.”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/nation-with-crumbling-bridges-and-roads-excited-to-build-giant-wall

[longship]

1. Borowitz!!!

Enough said?

Hope so. He gets it right.
R&

[840high]

2. How about less for wars more for roads.

[Hydra]

4. That's what I was thinking

$5 Billion is pocket change in a war. I thought we could have used the money for the F-35 program to fund a Guaranteed Minimum Income or free college program.

[840high]

8. Exactly.

[tecelote]

16. Makes sense - to a lot of people.

But, we don't consider profit in the equation.

War is profit. Infrastructure is expense.

That's why we need politicians. To keep our priorities straight and to protect the right to profit.

[senz]

20. Yes. Let's come home and live HERE for a change...

I'll sign up for that.

[gratuitous]

3. Heck, we'd rather blow a trillion in Iraq and Afghanistan

Than spend it on our own country and citizens, and have nothing to show for it but state of the art schools, well-paid teachers, functioning highways, safe bridges, and a bunch of other stuff nobody cares about, because if it was important, the teevee would be talking about it.

[Hydra]

5. I vote we call them "The Great Walls of Stupid"

Named after the people who suggested them.

[Marie Marie]

9. There is no way that wall wouldn't have TRUMP emblazened across it.

Everything he touches HAS to have his name on it. Should he win, his first act would be to change the White House to the TRUMP House.

[Kablooie]

15. Trump is anxious to imitate Berlin in the 1960's. It's his dream world.

[senz]

21. I've wondered if he wants to imitate Berlin in the 1930s

with Mexican immigrants as the target group.

I wish we could stop replaying these nightmares.

[Martin Eden]

6. Building a 20 foot wall would create jobs ...

... then we could create more jobs by manufacturing and selling 21 foot ladders to Mexican rapists.

[leftofcool]

26. But, what about the Canadians? Shouldn't they get some ladders too?

[GitRDun]

7. HBO has a great documentary called "The Fence"

It covers what a disaster the fence we have now is down by the Mexican border.

It's worth a look.

[yuiyoshida]

10. I can just imagine

[jtuck004]

11. Just put a damn fence on every side, change the name to Concentration Camps, Inc. n/t

[senz]

22. Really. How do we know they're not looking to

lock us in? We gotta stop that crap before it starts. Somehow...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. Actually, they want Mexicans to build it,....

.....under the lash of the white man's whip.

[shadowmayor]

13. Tear down the wall

Many of us who live right next to the wall, like we do in El Paso, cannot wait for the day when they tear that damned eye-sore down. What a travesty and waste of money. It turned our beautiful desert border into a Stalag 17. I'm far more likely to get shot by a fox news watching, Alex Jones listening, low information fearful white man packing his pistol than I am by any Mexican or gang-banger or criminal. And for my republican friends, the fact is that El Paso is one of the three safest big cities in our country. Look it up, educate yourselves and let the truth wash over you. Go Miners!

[Kablooie]

14. Money is not to be used to benefit Americans. It should only be used to battle foreigners.

It's weird to think that this actually is the right wing philosophy.

Any use of tax dollars to benefit the lives of regular people causes howls of outrage.

[senz]

24. And that would be a perfect line for Bernie to use in the GE.

Someone should be saving these gems up. He's going to need all the rhetorical fire power he can get.

[NBachers]

17. And when those are finished, Halliburton & friends can start building the great big sea-walls!

[rusty quoin]

18. Thom Hartmann

Who quotes Borowitz much will be back to work at 12:00 pm

[senz]

23. Yea, I'm wondering what he's going to say about Bernie & also the stock market "correction."

Should be interesting.

[senz]

19. Borowitz is a treasure. Someday President Sanders may award him a medal of freedom.

Seems almost too good to be true, doesn't it? Maybe if we all can believe we truly deserve it, it will seem more possible -- and thus be more possible.

[daleanime]

25. K&R....

[cantbeserious]

27. The Great Walls Of America - Keep Americans In And Canadians And Mexicans Out

eom

[LiberalElite]

28. But we could still escape at the sides -

they didn't think about THAT!