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Originally Posted by MaDalton
i just thought it's funny that one president wants to tear down a wall that was built for preventing people leaving the land because of the better economy on the other site - and 17 years later another president builds a wall for exactly the same reason.
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You forgot the part about how East Germany had subsidized stores funded by the Soviets, and West Germans were driving across the border to get these low cost goods.
Just imagine if the Mexican government was paying for discounted goods for Mexicans, and Americans were coming across the border to grab it all up... at the cost of the Mexican government.
There were a lot of good reasons to build the Berlin Wall at the time. There are many more reasons to build a US / Mexico wall. When the day comes that Mexico shows that they have cleaned up their act, maybe that wall can come down.