More than $17 million has now been raised for that wall. That may seem like a lot, until you learn just how expensive that thing is. Based on the part of the wall that has already been funded, that will pay for about 4,000 feet of wall. Put another way, that comes to $4,250 per foot.

Does that seem like an efficient use of money to you? It sure doesn't to me - and that doesn't even take into account the annual maintenance costs for that wall.

But at least a part of the government is shut down. If it stays shut down, it wouldn't bother me at all.

Onward and upward,
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