Mexico 'won't pay single cent for Trump's stupid wall'

[Judi Lynn]

Source: CNBC

Mexico 'won't pay single cent for Trump's stupid wall'

Holly Ellyatt | Hadley Gamble
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U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump might want to build a wall across the country's southern border to keep Mexican migrants out but don't expect Mexico to pay for it, the former Mexican president told CNBC, calling the billionaire a "not very well-informed man."

The Presidential hopeful shocked viewers in October by insisting that, if elected, he would build a wall the Mexican border and what's more, Mexico would pay for it. But Felipe Calderon, the former president of Mexico between 2006 and 2012, told CNBC on Saturday that there was no way that Mexico would pay for such a device.

"Mexican people, we are not going to pay any single cent for such a stupid wall! And it's going to be completely useless," Calderon said.

"The first loser of such a policy would be the United States," he added. "If this guy pretends that closing the borders to anywhere either for trade (or) for people is going to provide prosperity to the United States, he is completely crazy."

Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/08/mexico-wont-pay-single-cent-for-trumps-stupid-wall.html

[madokie]

1. tRump is certifiably

batshit crazy. anyone with a couple working brain cells know that.

[Helen Borg]

2. There are more Mexican going out of the US than coming in...

[tabasco]

17. I don't blame them.

This place is becoming a #$%^hole.

[nxylas]

3. But don't you get it? Trump will MAKE them pay!

How? Um, oh look, a baby panda.

(Seriously, though, the thought of Trump with access to the nuclear launch codes ought to terrify any sane person).

[pampango]

11. Perhaps a tariff on Mexican products designed to raise money for a 'huuuuge wall-buliding fund'.

That is something that Trump could have the US do unilaterally and Mexico would have no recourse - assuming Trump got us out of the WTO and NAFTA as well.

[wordpix]

20. first tariff is for Ford Co. - they're making cars in Mexico now

or will be soon

[pampango]

21. That's the 'magic' of tariffs. Donald can have as many as he wants; for whatever reasons he wants;

the 'others' pay, not 'us'.

[christx30]

22. A 50% tax on Weatern Union

Moneygrams from the US to Mexico.
So an undocumented immigrant sending $100 to his family back home will be contributing $50 toward the wall. Multiply that by the $21.6 billion they sent back in 2013, and before long, we're talking some real money.
Trump's plan is the real bastard move, but it could work. The Mexican government won't pay, but it's people will. And if they complain, Trump will say "I'll thank you to keep your nose out of our affairs. This is an internal policy."

[EdwardBernays]

4. Still better than Cruz

Which is some scary shit.

[yuiyoshida]

5. Anyone with an ounce of Sense knows

this to be true. Donald Like's to stomp his feet actin like a bully, ...and he would have to be to get Mexico to even consider it.

[elias49]

8. More like an affluenza child than a bully I think.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

10. "Anyone with an ounce of Sense knows"

That's the problem with Trump supporters. They are a bit lacking when it comes to sense. I overheard one the other day at the store. She asked a clerk where a certain kind of shrimp they carried came from. The clerk responded "Thailand". Her response was "OH! That's why we need Trump in office."

[awoke_in_2003]

16. He stomps his feet

like an entitled rich brat that doesn't get his way

[DhhD]

6. Trump-Diablo the Second. The US has become a joke in the World when it comes to human rights.

[houston16revival]

7. Must be Casino Financing Strategy

Borrow, build, find the suckers to pay for it

What an egotistical fool

[dembotoz]

9. actually if gop wins mexico may want to build a wall to keep the batshit crazy gringos up north

shit we could invade them

[phantom power]

12. Only a wingnut would believe for a second that Mexico might pay for something like that.

In fact, I have a hard time believing that even most wingnuts are really that deluded, but they frequently prove me wrong.

[Taitertots]

13. Trump is stupid but if we wanted Mexico to buy the wall all we need to do is...

Threaten to repeal NAFTA.

Worse case scenario is getting a horrible law /"trade agreement" repealed.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

14. The wall and Big Bend National Park???

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=big+bend+national+park&FORM=HDRSC2


Great place and you can wade to Mexico - Wall??? Never happen

[Gothmog]

15. Trump is an idiot

[jmowreader]

18. Even the thickest-headed among us know such a wall is stupidity at its most extreme

Let's assume Trump was able, somehow, to convince the Mexicans to pay for a 1,933-mile-long replica of this:



One has to ask: how many Mexicans cross the border illegally like this...

and how many cross in the back of a tractor-trailer?

[Monk06]

19. So Berlin Wall bad Mexican wall good Any attempt to use tariffs to pay for this thought bubble

will end in a NAFTA trade tribunal and huge countervailing fines

Trump has made his fortune by running his mouth and getting others to pay for his schemes with their money. That and hostile litigation and bankruptsy are his weapons of choice

[treestar]

23. Trump is certifiable if he thinks the Presidency gives anyone the power

to demand another country do anything. Is he going to threaten invasion? That's all he'd have.

[Vinca]

24. Idiot Trump was interviewed by Tamron Hall on MSNBC a little while ago.

She really went at him, but he just emitted his usual gibberish. He listed all the American companies that have moved to Mexico as a reason Mexico will have to pay for the wall. I wished Tamron had asked him if the wall would be to keep Mexicans out or stop Americans from going to Mexico to find work.