When I was young I learned of the Little Dutch Boy that plugged a hole in the dike with his thumb. T thought the dike must have been some thin vertical devise to plug, not the wide levies they actually are. I use this old image as a metaphor for Trump’s wall on our southern border. He says it will stop the flood of people crossing the border which he has called crooks, rapists, drug mules, and other names.

In reality it isn’t effective as the boy’s thumb because a customs pick-up has to carry a welding machine to patch the holes cut in his impenetrable wall. It takes less than 10 minutes to cut the hole and at least a hour to weld a patch over the hole. I’m not athletic so I thought a 20 foot ladder would be required to get over. Someone with a phone camera caught two guys climbing it almost as fast as I would on a ladder. They flipped over and went back down on the other side.

Who is paying for it? Definitely NOT the Mexicans! Over a year ago the media started showing the deplorable housing conditions on military bases. Congress was aware of these conditions when they designated billions to tear down the housing and build new for our troops and their families.

Why do I bring up that housing situation? The money to build the wall is the money Trump said he was going to use to build his wall. The constitution says redirecting specified money is illegal without Congress’ consent. Where he is going to get the additional funds over those in the budget, I don’t know but it better not be from the military housing. We can’t use dependant’s thumbs to plug the hole!