Those are the lying words of Donald Trump at an Ohio campaign rally in 2016. In fact, he promised Mexico would pay for the wall on numerous occasions during his campaign rallies. His zealots loved to finish his rally line.

“Who is gonna pay for it?” Trump would ask. 

“Mexico,” the crowd screamed.

Oh well, times have changed and economists say the current shutdown will cost the American economy $1 billion a week as it rolls on. 

And, hey, how about our so-called Congressman Mark “Gerrymander” Meadows. Check Google and look up “architect of the shutdown” in 2013. That “architect” would be Meadows. 

Yep, Meadows, who never met a shutdown he didn’t like, worked with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to gin up a failed shutdown in 2013 over Obamacare funding.

Meadows was also the shutdown whisperer to Trump leading up to the current shutdown. 

I guess this current shutdown needs to continue for weeks, months and beyond until the politicians learn it’s a ridiculous ploy to use the American people as pawns in a glorified Washington “game of chicken.” 

I say term limits for all of them, especially clowns like Meadows.

As an aside, there should be a law cutting off the pay for politicians from President to Congress during a shutdown. They shouldn’t get back pay — even after the shutdown is over — because they failed at their jobs.

James Budd

Bryson City