OPINION:
If a regular, middle-class household has a $20,000-per-year expenditure but could resolve it with a one-time $2,500 capital investment project, wouldn’t everyone agree they’d be a moronic family not to commit to that project to wipe out the $20,000 expenditure forever? This is the case with the border wall. But that’s the world these obstructionist Democrats, and more than just a few Republicans, want us to live in.
The border wall, like most every wall ever constructed throughout human history, will do everything President Trump says it will (shut down illegal immigration, curtail drug and human trafficking, etc.) and that’s what the Democrats fear. In other words, we elected an American president whose central campaign tenet was to build a wall to protect us from this escalating crime wave and ultimately make America great again. And the Democrats are riding the brakes on it because giving out federal subsidies to illegals is the only way they can expand their political base.
If the Democrats are allowed to continue to stall Mr. Trump on the wall, they will, indeed, destroy our country and we will never see another Republican president or GOP majority of any kind. In contrast, if the wall gets built, crime will plummet, third-world diseases in this country will decrease, drug use will go down and the $200 billion we save annually from making this capital investment could be put to better use for Americans, including, perhaps, another tax cut.
EUGENE R. DUNN
Medford, N.Y.
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