Just another reminder that pandemics do not stop criminals from acting criminally.
Courtesy of Newsweek:
The Trump administration has reportedly signed its biggest border wall contract yet, awarding a North Dakota construction firm a nearly $1.3 billion deal to put up fencing in Arizona.
Fisher Sand and Gravel, the construction firm awarded the contract, is expected to see 42 miles of black-painted fencing erected across the mountainous terrain of southern Arizona, according to The Washington Post.
Given the deal’s $1.28 billion price tag, that works out to a cost of more than $30 million per mile.
Previously, Fisher Sand and Gravel had been passed over for other border wall construction projects.
However, the North Dakota firm reportedly gained President Donald Trump’s support in White House meetings after Tommy Fisher, the company’s CEO, praised the president on cable news and made donations to Trump’s GOP allies
The company’s only other major border contract, a $400 million deal to build 31 miles of border wall across the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge southwest of Tucson, is currently under review by the Defense Department inspector general after Democratic Congress members expressed concerns over the White House’s influence on the contracting process.
This is, of course, yet another example of Trump handing out taxpayer money to the people who kiss his ass.
And the very fact that we are in the middle of a health care crisis, and that millions of Americans need financial help from the government to survive, makes this even more egregious.
30 million per mile, how many families could be fed for months on that kind of money?
How many small businesses could be saved, or testing kits produced for that kind of money?
It just makes you want to tear your hair out.
And AGAIN, I ask, just where is all this money coming from??
Finally got our stimulus check today It will go into my “for taxes” account because nothing, but NOTHING, is free.
did you get your “campaign” letter from donnie that goes with it, as though he is doling out his money. They sent TWO to my father that passed away last year. I am going to return to sender, just as soon as my check clears the bank.
It came before the check.
The christians will see gods wall. 40 miles. Just like Noah had a boat of animals for 40 days. So this is obviously a Chosen Wall then.
The poverty of literalism.
Well, Tommy Fisher certainly knows the rules of the game: Pay to Play!!!!!!! 🤨
$30 million/mile for FENCING that they can climb over with ropes. Yep this needs to be looked into. Heck you could go to Home Depot and get it for less:)
actually, it makes me want to tear HIS hair out. one hair at a time. with tweezers.
would putting the severed strands on ebay be too tacky?
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/london-to-latin-america-pompeo-secretly-using-government-trips-to-meet-wealthy-donors-for-potential-2024-run-report/
“Pompeo “has chosen not to disclose certain meetings that appeared to be linked to those plans while on taxpayer-funded trips. The exact number of the meetings is unclear, though there is a pattern of activity.”
Critics are outraged.
“It’s becoming increasingly clear that Secretary Pompeo is using the State Department to support his political career, and is using the position of secretary of state to collect a Rolodex of powerful people to support him for whatever venture he sees next,””
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-mayor-eric-hogue-women-invocation_n_5ec72e7ec5b66686597a4539
“Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.”
“Let the women learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”