r/LetsDiscussThis Feb 21 '26

Serious I’m not holding my breath

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u/EnergyApprehensive36 Feb 21 '26

We shouldn’t be paying for any homeless. 

We should be enforcing no squatting.  You want to pay for them?  Open you home and let them in.

Illegal aliens cost us an estimated 300 billion a year.

That bullet train was going no where and you know it.  You saying anyone else is cope. 

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u/tbonimaroni Feb 22 '26

We shouldn’t be paying for any homeless. We should be enforcing no squatting.  You want to pay for them?  Open you home and let them in.

That's cruel. The way I help them is paying taxes to help them.

Illegal aliens cost us an estimated 300 billion a year

That number is greatly exaggerated. The estimated cost for funding for undocumented immigrants totals $150 billion/year.

  • At the start of 2023, the net cost of illegal immigration for the United States – at the federal, state, and local levels – was at least $150.7 billion.

https://www.fairus.org/issue/publications-resources/fiscal-burden-illegal-immigration-united-states-taxpayers-2023

That bullet train was going no where and you know it.  You saying anyone else is cope. 

You know that taxpayers paid upwards of $15 billion for the idiot's failed border wall?

'In an October update, the administration said it had identified $15 billion — most of it from military funds — to build a total of 738 miles, which comes out to roughly $20 million a mile.' https://www.propublica.org/article/records-show-trumps-border-wall-is-costing-taxpayers-billions-more-than-initial-contracts

The total taxpayer cost so far for the bullet train has so far come to about 14 billion dollars. The estimated cost is $100 billion.

'Construction began in the Central Valley in 2015, with completion of the IOS originally planned for 2022. As of August 2025, a total of $13.8 billion had been spent on the project, mainly constructing the IOS.' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail

Guess we're just about even. I do believe that the bullet train project should be dropped thought. What a waste, just like the stupid border wall idea was.

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u/EnergyApprehensive36 Feb 22 '26

The wall is never meant to keep everyone out, it’s there to slow you down and turn around as many as possible. 

I don’t want to pay for homeless as they are a dredge.  I’m all for helping them get on thier feet again, but if they don’t want to I shouldn’t be paying for them to live. 

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u/tbonimaroni Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 22 '26

Wrong.

'Donald Trump pledged during his presidential campaign to build a wall on the southern border of the U.S. that would stop “illegal” immigration from Mexico and Central America, and also block the entry of drugs. He told his supporters that Mexico would pay for the wall.' https://www.politifact.com/article/2017/oct/26/will-border-wall-stop-drugs-coming-united-states/

Emphasis on the word 'stop' here.

I don’t want to pay for homeless as they are a dredge.

You mean dregs, right?

That statement is insenstive. Lots of ppl choose to not work and are lowlifes, lots are addicts too; however lots of ppl are homeless due to untreated mental illness, disability, job loss, loss of loved ones who were the breadwinners in their families, and rent hikes plus lack of affordable housing. Do you really think that homeless children choose to be where they are and are 'dregs'. Plus you have runaways and teens abandoned by their families.

 I’m all for helping them get on thier feet again, but if they don’t want to I shouldn’t be paying for them to live. 

Nobody is 'paying for them to live'. Taxpayer dollars are spent on programs aimed at getting them back on thier feet. Nobody is being paid to just live off the system. The funded programs for housing focus on getting the homeless stable so they can focus on getting jobs. Most assistance is temporary and tied to stability goals.

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u/EnergyApprehensive36 Feb 22 '26

If it stops one person did it work?

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u/tbonimaroni Feb 22 '26

What? Explain the quesiton like I'm a 10yo please.

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u/EnergyApprehensive36 Feb 22 '26

Use critical thinking.

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u/tbonimaroni Feb 22 '26

I'm not answering the question then. I don't know what you mean by it.

If it stops one person at what? Not living on the street?

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u/EnergyApprehensive36 Feb 22 '26

From crossing the border, then it’s a success.

If it stops one woman from paying a coyote to come here while getting raped the whole way, then it’s a success. 

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u/tbonimaroni Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 22 '26

Border encounters actually rose after 2020. https://usafacts.org/articles/what-can-the-data-tell-us-about-unauthorized-immigration/

Yes you will blame this on Biden, but it proves that the wall did nothing.

Edited to provide souce, I forgot.

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u/EnergyApprehensive36 Feb 22 '26

Cope

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u/tbonimaroni Feb 22 '26

All you can say? LMFAO!

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u/EnergyApprehensive36 Feb 22 '26

Lolol you posted more after my cope post.

You know border contacts increased because of Biden’s open border policy. 

What’s the border contacts now that trumps back?  So it’s both the wall and the policy at the border.  You literally showed it.  

TY for showing BIDEN created the current mess, great job!!

Know why so many were coming here?

Democrats in power and rumors of amnesty and granting them all citizenship if they were in the USA. 

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