How Dumb Are You?

Today on my show, I was talking about how dumb Trump's border wall with Mexico really is.

1)  25 billion will not even come close to covering the cost of building a 2000 mile wall, regardless of what it's made with.
2)  We need to build a road which will run the entirety of the wall, a road whose cost has not been included.
3)  The Trump budget doesn't factor in most of the concrete pilings we'll need to build this wall.
4)  Trump has not factored one dime for the manpower needed to effectively staff this wall.
5)  And Mexico is supposed to pay for it.

AND IT WILL NOT STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION! Most illegal immigrants FLEW to the US and overstayed their legal visas.  Also, even at the border, you can go around a wall.  And unless you place guards at regular intervals (1000 yards or so) at an additional annual cost of AT LEAST a billion dollars PER YEAR, all you'll need to do to thwart this wall is get a tall enough ladder and an equally long piece of rope.

This is racist policy, written with the intent of appealing to racists, being pushed with racist gusto.  It will not work, and it will cost us TRILLIONS in taxpayer money.

Truly this is one of the dumbest ideas we've ever had suggested for America, but yet Republicans not only stand by it, they're willing to shut the government down for as long as it takes to get the 25 Billion.  It was mentioned by regular listener Lisa, the same Republicans in Minnesota who scream and bellyache about Minnesota raising the gas tax, money specifically dedicated to improve roads, bridges, transportation infrastructure and mass transit, money you can at least see at work when you point to the improvements, are in full endorsement of this massive waste of taxpayer dollars.

That didn't stop Republican Richard from Brooklyn Center from calling in, and attempting to stand up for the GOP.  He did so in one of the most bizarre ways possible.  He implied the Democrats were only trying to raise the gas tax to give massive taxpayer handouts to the people who were at the homeless encampment off of Hwy. 55 in Minneapolis. A few problems with his stupidity:

1) The gas tax money is dedicated to transit improvements, ONLY.
2) The homeless encampment was actually closed down and moved to temporary shelters a few weeks back.
3) No one has suggested Richard's delusional plan, nor has any right wing media stated the Democrats were for this.

This was an attempt by Richard to challenge me by implying the Republicans are not for wasting taxpayer dollars like the Democrats, albeit in an incredibly weird and dumb way.

He actually made this statement after I spent 20 minutes talking about the MASSIVE tax dollar waste of the Trump wall, a wall the Republicans are intent on wasting massive amounts of taxpayer money on.

Republicans, let me attempt to talk to you in a manner which you might be able to follow.  You know how you label Democrats as 'tax and spend?'  FINE, call us that, but realize when Democrats get taxpayer dollars, you end up getting things like safe roads and bridges, quality schools, affordable health care, clean water, parks; things you can actually benefit from!  When Republicans take your taxpayer dollars, I know you think they just return it to you with an additional $25 thank you, but they don't.  Since the 1980's, the Republicans have been taking YOUR tax dollars and giving them to millionaires and billionaires.  They tell you this will benefit you because they are the 'job creators,' but most of that tax payer money is placed into long term investments, meaning you, the Republican voter, are paying for some billionaires great, great, great, great, great, great grand kid to NEVER have to work a day in their life. The Republicans are so committed to giving the wealthy all of the taxpayer dollars, they've been running up massive deficits, almost exclusively caused by their billionaire welfare.  They'll NEVER give you any money.  Even if they did finally wake up to their senses, they'd still take your taxpayer dollars to pay down the deficit, while NOT raising the tax rate on the wealthiest.

So Republican voters, your options are:

1) Let the Democrats take charge, get taxed at a reasonable, but fair level, and reap the benefits of having a government which creates services you can need and use, making your community better for everyone, or
2) Keep following the Republicans as they take your tax dollars, and give you NOTHING in return.

Phrasing this question a different way, how dumb are you?

I think we already know the answer to that...