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🗓️ 22 December 2018
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey everybody welcome back to the show today we start off with news of the wall |
0:08.8 | the border wall which was so heavily promised by President Trump during his campaign but now almost two years into his presidency |
0:16.7 | nowhere to be seen. A lot of people now are I think understandably upset with Republicans for not |
0:35.2 | getting this done when they had both the House and the Senate and people are |
0:38.5 | knowing that now in January with the Democrats going to be taking over the House |
0:41.8 | that this probably isn't going to get done. |
0:45.0 | Thankfully, the one stalwart Patriot has actually started a go fund me page for the wall. |
0:50.0 | You heard that right. We are go funding me the wall. |
0:53.4 | Joining me again today is my producer Liam. Liam what are we at now? How much money does it have? |
0:57.6 | At the time of filming this we are at 8.2 million, but it's only been up for about three days now so it's growing extremely rapidly. |
1:05.2 | This is already one of the largest go-fundmees in history of the site and it like we said it's only been around for few days, so it might end up being the very biggest. |
1:15.0 | When this video comes out, it will likely have increased. |
1:17.0 | What do you think of this impact, Lauren? How much of an impact will this go-fund me have? |
1:21.0 | Okay, well, that's a good question. And and right now the goal of the go fund me is set at $1 billion |
1:25.9 | but of course people have estimated a border wall would actually be more likely to cost |
1:30.8 | around $5 billion now there's a big difference between |
1:34.6 | hundreds of millions of dollars and billions of dollars. It's a really big number. |
1:38.3 | You know for a border wall in context it's not that much money considering how much is spent |
1:44.0 | on military social security medicaid and how much of I guess government funds go |
1:49.4 | towards either combating illegal immigration or paying for things like prison systems or their |
1:55.2 | children who are in the school system but they're not paying income taxes to provide for that. |
1:59.1 | So I mean if you ask me a wall would be a great investment in terms of are people going to be |
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