Resolved: The United States Federal Government should build a border fence.

Counter-PlanFor this debate I shall be running the following counter-plan: Resolved: Mexico shall build the US-Mexico border wall. In this counter-plan, Mexico will pay for the wall and build this wall. In this round, I shall go into how this will work and how this is preferable to the US building the wall. Contention 1: US HegemonyEver since the Beginning of the Obama administration, US hegemony has been on the decline where the influence in Foreign affiars has began to decline. If you ever look at his achievements under foreign policy, there isn't much to brag about. US has failed to help end conflicts in Syria and detter the Russians in Ukraine. Other global events show the US has began to deline post Housing Bubble [1]. US hegemony is extremely important to the world as it help deters terrorism. A huge weakness in the Obama administration was that his lack of foreign policy and wanning of the US Hegemony helped lead to the rise of ISIS. The US hegemony is key in detering terrorism as any and all amounts of US policy should be devoted to national security and through this, the world becomes safer. This was shown at nearly every major event that the US would lead the charge to help people in need around the world to help fight off injustice and the terrorist movements [2]. The most recent one was the War on Terror and the US influence over a great deal of the Western nations. In having Mexico building the wall, the US is showing that the US still is a world power it was when the Soviet Union collapsed, allowing US leadership to help contain world issues. In this stage, the US is showing their influence by having Mexico create the wall that would benefit both nations. This influence would help show the world that the US is still the Hegemonic power it was and this will increase US influence in many different events leading to the crack down of many world events that the Obama Administration has failed to stop. A collapse in the US's polarity will result not in a multilateral brigade, but an anarchy on an international level that will make terrorism more possible. Today we have reached a new age of terrorism where we have cyberterrorism, biological, and chemcial attakcs on innocent people. With the fall of US hegemony and the rise in terror, these types of disasters are going and will soon come home. There have been reports that ISIS is currently moving into the US from the open US-Mexico border and closing this off will be a key way to protect Americans at home from terror [3]. Things are getting a little too close for comfort as after several terror strikes oversees, ISIS has labled the US as a target for a terror attack. After the attacks in Europe, it was learned that ISIS was spying on Belgian nuclear officials and with US nuclear reactors leaking. It is possible that the US can be attacked via dirty bomb or the US can have a Fukishima incident [4]. Having the US Hegemony increased, the US will be able to help influence their allies to increase their efforts in a war against ISIS and other organizations to prevent such an event from occuring as such an event would be deadly. Contention 2: US DebtWe can’t project power from bankruptcy court. - US Senator Rand PaulToday the US debt is climbing to astronomical numbers. It is $19 trillion and climbing. This disaterous spending causes US inflation, and on top of the US debt this will cause a catastrophe for the US and nations all across the world. [5]People would have to spend more money, becuase of the inflation and with the devaluing of the dollar we can see that if I spent a dollar on the US maket in the 1960s it would be a whole lot more then if I spent a dollar on the US market today. Economist Gagnon has shown that devaluing of the US dollar caused by the inflation can lead to a massive increase in import prices and since we get many of our things from abroad it will be even harder to get that new XBox video game you were wanting. He also shown that it harms nation's holding our debt, because the value is worthless and makes other nation's not want to purchase from us. The US in turn raises the interest rates, but we cannot afford to raise them any higher. [6]Why's this you may ask? If we observe the graph bellow the US interest rate on debt alone dwarfs most of the US federal budget. The US federal debt is getting so enourmously large that the US is getting to a breaking point in economic trade to were we have to pay off a massive amount of debt or commit financial suicide and raise the interest rates. If we observe the chart bellow we can see the different rates that a our interest rates will cost the US in the future. We have no choice, but cannot decend this slippery slope and further devaluing of the US dollar will harm the American economy by forcing us to lose jobs and rely more on imports causing the the nation to slide into the interest disadvantage furthering harming our nation's economy causing a world wide economic collapse greater than that of the Great Depression and rising the inflation will cause us to go flying off the fiscal cliff. [7] This debate we have to observe Ceteris Paribus, which means with all other things constant. With the US spending continuing to spiral upwards, we will see the US default in the near future. Though many people will ask, how did we get here. The US is and has been following a famous economic system that was under John Maynard Keynes. He argued that we should spend now and constantly to create jobs and grow the economy. The key issue with this is that Keynessian economics requires deficet spending for much of it's effects to work. Keynes had only meant for this to be during times of economic crisis, but the US Federal Government has gotten into an issue that has destroyed the economy with debt. What was Keynes's solution for debt due to his spending? "In the long run, we're all dead. " [8] This means the debt is passed onto our grandchildren and their grandchildren until they collapse under the burden that we have done now. Many people talk about how much of an issue the debt is today and the fact is that it's not getting any better. If we continue this crisis then the US economy will crash. What happens when the US defaults? The markets will crash followed by large economic powers collapse. Japan, a holder of well over $1 trillion of US debt will lose this money which will lead to an economic recession of 20%. [9] Many other countries will follow suit. . http://www.youtube.com...It is estimated that the US-Mexico wall will cost $25 billion which has yet to include maintance costs and it is shown to excede that number with maintance after 7 years and skyrockets will baloon. Israel's wall costs up to $260 million in maintance per year [10] My opponent has yet to provide an exact number, but with the amount of money will cost will have the US increase their debt which will increase the likelihood of US collapse which would destroy the Global economy as I had previously brought up. By having Mexico pay for the wall, the US does not have to go through this and could focus on spending in other areas or even having to pay off their own debts. . http://www.youtube.com...Sources1. (. http://tinyurl.com...) 2. ( . http://tinyurl.com...) 3. ( . http://tinyurl.com...) 4. ( . http://tinyurl.com...) 5. (. http://tinyurl.com...) 6. (. http://tinyurl.com...) 7. (. http://tinyurl.com...) 8. 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