Ted Cruz Calls for $14 Billion Seized from ‘El Chapo’ to Fund Border Wall

[TVGuy]

If I didn't read it for myself, I would have thought this was an article from The Onion. Genius way to get Mexico to pay for the wall

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/04/ ... rder-wall/

[TreyHouston]

The left will argue that's technically Americas money because we (they) bought his drugs!

[TresHuevos]

I saw a documentary TV show about Pablo Escobar once. They claimed that at the height of his power, his organization was spending $10,000 a month just on rubber bands to hold the cash together. It boggles the mind.

[John Galt]

Sounds like a plan.

[allisji]

That's even better than his plan last year for the USA to sell off all of their public land and use the money to pay off the national debt.

[Soccerdad1995]

I saw a documentary TV show about Pablo Escobar once. They claimed that at the height of his power, his organization was spending $10,000 a month just on rubber bands to hold the cash together. It boggles the mind.

There's a movie where the drug kingpins don't have enough time to count their money, so they resort to weighing it.

[TVGuy]

I saw a documentary TV show about Pablo Escobar once. They claimed that at the height of his power, his organization was spending $10,000 a month just on rubber bands to hold the cash together. It boggles the mind.

Ha! He made the Forbes richest list and billionaires list each year for the latter part of the 80s. The only difference was that he couldn't put his money in the bank like the others, hence all of the rubber bands.

If you haven't read "Killing Pablo", I highly recommend it. Great book.

[crazy2medic]

Marvelous idea, not sure of the legalities involved but a very good idea!

[Flightmare]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-t ... SKBN15O2ZN

Reuters says that the cost is an estimated 21.6 billion for the wall. 12 billion would cover 55% of it. Sounds like a decent down payment to me.

[Liberty]

Don't we actually have to possess the money before we can spend it? As I understand it, the money is somewhere in Mexico but we aren't exactly sure where it is. If they find it all they have to do is convince Mexico to hand it over to us.

Then again, Congress spending money it doesn't have isn't anything new.

[bblhd672]

Wait, are you saying Ted Cruz is still in the Senate? I thought he had been abducted by aliens or something.

[RoyGBiv]

I LOL'd when I read this in an email from Cruz this morning..... Marketing genius.

Will you stand with me and endorse the Ensuring Lawful Collection of Hidden Assets to Provide Order (EL CHAPO)

[loktite]

I LOL'd when I read this in an email from Cruz this morning..... Marketing genius.

Will you stand with me and endorse the Ensuring Lawful Collection of Hidden Assets to Provide Order (EL CHAPO)

[Abraham]

Day before yesterday, Pelosi declared on Fox News "The Wall" is immoral.

Huh?

I guess she's an open borders, no country, no sovereignty, just let our country collapse under the weight of illegals...except, no other country I'm aware of has "open borders".

Even Mexico has strict immigration laws as does every other country in the world, so why oh why should we be the exception?

What am I not understanding about the "open borders" (channeling Hillary too...) people?

Mass guilt that says the U.S. is a never ending Cornucopia (hey, U.S. taxpayers can handle it) for all who make it here or ...?

[twomillenium]

Day before yesterday, Pelosi declared on Fox News "The Wall" is immoral.

Huh?

I guess she's an open borders, no country, no sovereignty, just let our country collapse under the weight of illegals...except, no other country I'm aware of has "open borders".

Even Mexico has strict immigration laws as does every other country in the world, so why oh why should we be the exception?

What am I not understanding about the "open borders" (channeling Hillary too...) people?

Mass guilt that says the U.S. is a never ending Cornucopia (hey, U.S. taxpayers can handle it) for all who make it here or ...?

Do you mean the same Pelosi that has her home in a gated community?