Why Is President Trump Not Making Mexico Pay For His Wall?? by Jacob G. Hornberger
(2018-12-06 at 16:43:42 )

Why Is President Trump Not Making Mexico Pay For His Wall?? by Jacob G. Hornberger

Correct me if I am wrong but my recollection is that in his campaign for the presidency, President Trump said that he was going to make Mexico pay for his 1900-mile wall along the United States-Mexico border.

All I see today is President Trump and his supporters getting angry over the fact that the United States Congress is, so far, refusing to pay for Trumps Wall.

I do not get it.

Forcing Mexico to pay for President Trumps Wall is quite a bit different from forcing American taxpayers to pay for it.

Why did President Trump go from his initial position to his new position??

How much are we talking about here??

Well, no one really knows exactly how much President Trumps Wall is going to end up costing but we can safely assume, given the history of public-works projects, that it will be a big multiple of what it is estimated to cost initially.

According to an article on businessinsider.com, an internal report in February 2017 said the wall would cost $21.6 billion.

President Trump is asking for $25 billion.

That means that it will probably end up costing at least 3 times that amount, around $75 billion. In fact, the same article said that Democrats are saying it will cost $70 billion.

Now, go to "U.S.Debt Clock".

It shows how much the federal government owes people.

Right now, the United States federal debt totals more than $21 trillion.

That is not chicken feed.

In fact, the debt clock points out that the total debt per United States citizen is more than $217,000 and per family more $852,000.

Why is that important??

Because the only way that the United States federal government can pay off its debt is by collecting the money first from the citizenry through taxation.

So, assuming that the federal government will pay its debt, each United States citizen needs to factor in to his financial planning.

The fact is that that $21 trillion will need to come out of the pockets of individual United States taxpaying citizens.

Moreover, the President Trump administration is spending around $1 trillion per year more than what it is bringing in with taxes.

That means that the total amount of federal debt will soon increase to $22 trillion.

Conservatives love to rail against excess federal spending and debt. In fact, one of their favorite proposals is a balanced-budget amendment in the United States Constitution.

Yet, here are President Trump and his conservative supporters criticizing the United States Congress for not adding another $25 billion (which will undoubtedly go up to at least $75 billion) to federal spending (and debt) for their enormous and enormously expensive huge public-works project.

So, back to my original question: Why is President Trump not fulfilling his promise to make Mexico pay for his wall???

Why has he decided to break that campaign promise by forcing Americans to pay for his wall??

Why not collect the $75 billion from Mexico??

And why are President Trumps followers not taking President Trump to task for breaking his campaign promise.

Why are they helping President Trump to fleece American taxpayers to pay for his wall??

Of course, a practical question arises: How could President Trump do that given that the Mexican government refuses to voluntarily fork over the money??

The answer is simple: a military invasion, just like the ones the United States has done to countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Cuba, Grenada, Panama, and others.

President Trump could order the United States military to invade Mexico, proceed to Mexico City, and seize all the money in the Mexican treasury.

If there is not enough there, President Trumps troops could seize Pemex, the government-owned oil company.

If that still is not sufficient, the United States military could seize, say, the entire northern half of the country, which is precisely what President Polk did in the Mexican War.

Recall that President Polk provoked Mexico into attacking United States troops in Brownsville in order to have a pretext for going to war against Mexico and stealing the northern half of the country, the half that Mexico was not willing to sell to the United States.

United States troops ended up in Mexico City, where they secured a surrender and a peace treaty, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

In the treaty, Mexico agreed to cede almost the entire northern half of the country to the United States, and every Mexican citizen who was living in that part of Mexico was automatically converted into an American citizen, even though most of them could not speak English and were unaccustomed to United States laws, traditions, and culture.

In fact, President Trump could actually go further than President Polk did.

He could seize all of the rest of Mexico - that is, the part that President Polk did not take - and incorporate it into the United States.

That would mean no more illegal immigrants, at least from Mexico, because all Mexican citizens would suddenly be United States of American citizens.

Of course it would also mean no more need for a $75 billion Berlin Wall along the United States-Mexico border since it would now all be the United States.

Uh, oh. I am only kidding, of course, but now I am concerned that I might have given President Trump and his band of merry big-spending militarist Trumpistas a very bad idea.

Printed here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!