Trump the Investor and the cost of his Wall 01 26 2019
Look at the photographs of the Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys. What an engineering feet that had to have been! How much material was needed and had to be properly position in the water!
It was Constructed in 1982 for a Cost of $45 Million Dollars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mile_Bridge
https://www.history-a2z.com/20-of-the-worlds-scariest-bridges/5/?xcmg=1
So it spanned 6.765 miles.
Pardon me, but Donald Trump per my last hearing of the matter wanted a wall with Mexico and didn't I hear it was only supposed to be 50 miles long, because they just needed it in that one place?
Lets do the math and assume that it costs as much per mile to build a wall as it does a high rise bridge over the ocean, per mile.
$45 mil divided by 6.765 miles = $6.651 million dollars per mile.
So at 50 miles a wall would cost 50*6.651= $332.6 million and not $5 billion Trump is asking for.
Is there Organized Crime in the United States Construction Industry and in the bid reception process of it? I believe that there is.
If a high rise sea bearing bridge cost $6.6 million per mile how much should a lowly wall cost? One would think a fraction of that. Why? You don't need the highly skilled labor to make sure it isn't going to fall down into the Ocean because it is on land. And what does road construction look like today? How is it done? Don't they just grind up the old asphalt right there and reuse it to remake the same road? The point being, use the sand or stone right there to make it? Perhaps make it easy. Lay down railroad tracks to the U.S. side of where the wall will be and use concrete coming in on rail cars to make it. I would believe you could build one very fast.
© 2019 Thomas Murphy
So you say, why haven't you forward adjusted this for inflation? Have you seen the minimum wage increase in that amount of time? I would argue that with Mexican Immigrants the price of labor to build something like a wall is even less. And that the primary cost of the wall is labor.
Which brings up another point. Inflation hasn't gone up because of cheap goods from China? But what would happen if you somehow adjusted the inflation number to factor in the increase in the national debt as part of inflation? Or the increase in the interest on the national debt as part of inflation? It doesn't matter you say? Wait a minute isn't a conflict over a budget item that just shut down our government?
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If you look at the cost of recent Construction in Milwaukee, was it a Billion or Two Billion and you compare it to that $45 million spent to build a 7 mile sea bridge in the Florida Keys, what conclusion do you come up with regard to Scott Walker who was Governor during that time?
If I were in Government I would find out who the Construction Company for that 7 Mile Bridge was and I would either contract with them or have them serve as a cost advisor.
Look at the photographs of the Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys. What an engineering feet that had to have been! How much material was needed and had to be properly position in the water!
It was Constructed in 1982 for a Cost of $45 Million Dollars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mile_Bridge
https://www.history-a2z.com/20-of-the-worlds-scariest-bridges/5/?xcmg=1
So it spanned 6.765 miles.
Pardon me, but Donald Trump per my last hearing of the matter wanted a wall with Mexico and didn't I hear it was only supposed to be 50 miles long, because they just needed it in that one place?
Lets do the math and assume that it costs as much per mile to build a wall as it does a high rise bridge over the ocean, per mile.
$45 mil divided by 6.765 miles = $6.651 million dollars per mile.
So at 50 miles a wall would cost 50*6.651= $332.6 million and not $5 billion Trump is asking for.
Is there Organized Crime in the United States Construction Industry and in the bid reception process of it? I believe that there is.
If a high rise sea bearing bridge cost $6.6 million per mile how much should a lowly wall cost? One would think a fraction of that. Why? You don't need the highly skilled labor to make sure it isn't going to fall down into the Ocean because it is on land. And what does road construction look like today? How is it done? Don't they just grind up the old asphalt right there and reuse it to remake the same road? The point being, use the sand or stone right there to make it? Perhaps make it easy. Lay down railroad tracks to the U.S. side of where the wall will be and use concrete coming in on rail cars to make it. I would believe you could build one very fast.
© 2019 Thomas Murphy
So you say, why haven't you forward adjusted this for inflation? Have you seen the minimum wage increase in that amount of time? I would argue that with Mexican Immigrants the price of labor to build something like a wall is even less. And that the primary cost of the wall is labor.
Which brings up another point. Inflation hasn't gone up because of cheap goods from China? But what would happen if you somehow adjusted the inflation number to factor in the increase in the national debt as part of inflation? Or the increase in the interest on the national debt as part of inflation? It doesn't matter you say? Wait a minute isn't a conflict over a budget item that just shut down our government?
*****'
If you look at the cost of recent Construction in Milwaukee, was it a Billion or Two Billion and you compare it to that $45 million spent to build a 7 mile sea bridge in the Florida Keys, what conclusion do you come up with regard to Scott Walker who was Governor during that time?
If I were in Government I would find out who the Construction Company for that 7 Mile Bridge was and I would either contract with them or have them serve as a cost advisor.
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