Now that the WALL is out of the news, let’s look at what a terrible idea it was.

I am not the first person to do this essay. Hell, I’m not number 200, but unlike all the other versions I’ve read, I’m not going to compare $5 billion to logical things that would help the citizens of the US, (Medicare, homeless shelters, political stuff that just means more arguing between parties and be honest, no one who wants the wall cares enough about his fellow man to care about health care) how many pounds of marshmallows you can buy or how any Jack in the Box taco’s it’ll get you. I’m going to show you real uses OTHER than governments or administrations could do besides waste it on the Great Wall of Collusion. For the record, not a lot these are good ideas either.

NFL STADIUMS are expensive aren’t they? If Roger Goodell reads this part he’ll send Tom Brady to Washington wearing a MAGA hat to help Trump “allocate” the Wall money to Buffalo or someplace.

Jerry World (COWBOY stadium I refuse to use the sponsor’s name) cost $1.3billion in 2009. Adjusted for inflation it would cost $1,525,264,173.55 today. The new stadium in LA is costing $2.6b. Barclays center in Brooklyn cost $1billon, (yes, its basketball but its also Brooklyn. Worst apartment in Brooklyn is essentially the same value as any 3 square miles in the rust belt. It’s like comparing 1 Big Ass Apple and literally an entire orange grove.

OK, bear with me on this one. I realize this is more than the $5.1B, but to actually fight TERRORISM we’ll have to build something at some point on the other border. You know, the one that protects us from the People’s Republic of Canada. I realize they are white, but every time a terrorist tries to enter and is CAUGHT he’s coming from Canada. You see, People smart enough to organize a plan to have people move to the US, assimilate, learn to fly 747’s (but not land them, swear to god, no one thought that was weird at the flight school) take over airplanes, fly them into stuff from a fricking in a country that didn’t have cell service at the time — is also smart enough to just enter the US from the less secure border.

Anyway, point is, $5.1 would only be the start of the wall money. And if you double it ……

A valuable lesson (comparison) would be the $2.8B Tel Aviv–Jerusalem railway that is actually costing (estimated) $6B by completion. A 56km (36 miles) high-speed rail line linking two of the great ancient cities. Now, no major cities are that close in the US. However, if you put in a high-speed rail line out of the center of any major US city people would be very happy. The outside location would see property values explode, cut carbon admissions and reduce stress levels. Are there any US light rail or subway systems that aren’t packed during rush hour? Here in LA, we have light rail lines going from one odd place to another. Mostly because of property rights we have routes that go from places like, Torrence to Norwalk and I guess they are all busy.

The overages with a rail system are likely more of a problem than a wall, however, I don’t think Israel is set up to stop the project because of endless lawsuits and legal bills. The USA on the other hand is. People seem to ignore that this was budgeted as high as $14B two years ago. How exactly are they planning on finishing a $14B project with $5+ billion? Maybe the plan is to go from giant steel monolith to Home Depot 8 foot fence. When it goes on sale of course.

*Side note*
During my research, I noticed they canceled a proposed new airport in Mexico City. It was going to cost roughly the same as the original wall estimates. Also, notice the timing on the El Chapo arrest? Maybe the plan was to not make Mexico pay for it, but to make El Chapo pay for both. Given his penchant for tunneling, the wall would have been a smart business move to slow competition and I don’t have to explain why he’d want his own airport. The El Chapo/Trump memorial wall? El Chapo International Airport? Trump has pardons in his desk drawer, just saying.

If you live in NYC area you know two gigantic airports just don’t get the job done. Ever get off a redeye only to pay a $100 bucks to get a car into Manhattan from Kennedy? Ever look around when you are being driven away from Newark Airport? They give you a cyanide capsule just in case of car trouble. It's far more humane than asking people to leave the safety of a car, carrying luggage at night in that part of ‘Jersey’. they have budgeted $4billion for a complete retrofit of La Guardia. Also, if you want to fight terror, airports in NYC area seem like a smart place to send cash. The project promises better accessibility that should evolve La Guardia into the option it isn’t now.

In Brisbane, Australia they have started an underground metro called THE CROSS RIVER RAIL. Estimated $4b, roughly 6.5 miles, this will run through something called the “BaT Tunnel”. I’m not going to research it, but without doing so, there is no doubt in my mind I’d take a BaT Tunnel over Home Depot fencing.

*side note 2.0*
As I was going country by country reading about all the infrastructure projects, even in the poorest countries they seem to have a lot of ambition. Then I got to Iran. They are building a mall. We may want to back off those guys a little. When the Central African Republic is more optimistic it’s a bad sign.