If we in these United States still had an actual president who puts US-First — that is what he would have told the Mexican president as he walked away at the start of being lectured about our being the cause of their people scrambling to run the border to get over here because it is such a stinking hell hole over there. And on top of that, President Bush is their best friend here in their bid to allow more of their people to come and stay here. Has anybody gotten around to whispering in El Presidente Calderon’s ear, “Quit being a dumb, stupid jack-ass!”.
Now, let’s get on with building that wall. And, the next time some jack-ass compares it to the Berlin Wall, you remind them that the purpose of that wall was to keep people in — people were shot as they tried to scale it. The purpose of our wall on the border with Mexico is to keep people out — we do not shoot at them as they try to make there way into our country. Come to think of it, President Bush should have cut in on Calderon’s lecture and told him to stop squandering all them petro pesos that Pemex generates and start using them to build better lives for his people so that they don’t live in a hell hole that anyone in their right mind would want to flee..
I consider your message the result of an extreme critical situation in our country. I don’t really blame you, as I understand ignorance has reached horrible levels in our country. I don’t know if you have ever left your suburb to see what is out there in the world. The world doesn’t like our country because of our flamboyant president and people like you thinking that the world is for us and our country is only for us. Unless you are Indian American, you probably have immigrant ancestors, and most likely they didn’t come in a fancy yacht. They probably came running away from starvation or persecution. Hunger was the main driver during those years, now it is ignorance. Go out, see what other countries have achieved and why U.S. should be consider a good country and not the invader… Don’t blame Mexicans for coming to work here. They are here because they don’t have jobs in Mexico and because our country like to have cheap labor free of responsibilities. Both U.S. and Mexico are contributing to this situation. U.S. gets a great benefit from it: you can have your house fixed and your fruits and vegetables ready at dinner time… immigrants contribute a whole to the gdp of our country. Don’t be fascist. Your example about the wall is bad in any way. Every wall is to keep sets separated, that’s wrong from the first conception of it.
I’ll be glad to hear your comments.
Had you only insulted me, I would not have accepted your comments — but you also made some valid points, so I accepted them in their entirety. I always post non-spam as-received (and bit-bucket spam).
Before I tell you where I agree, I will ask you if the doors (and windows) on your house or apartment have locks? Do you have any electronic security equipment installed and in use? A fence around the yard? Do you live in a gated community? Why? May I come and take whatever I want, when I want — without first getting your approval? Why not? is your stuff just for you and those with whom you choose to share?
I am a third-generation American. I suspect that my ancestors did not all come here “by the book”. Two wrongs do not make a right. I am pro-immigration — that is, in fact, what my dealings in Ukraine that I mention in other postiings are about. I am, however, against illegal immigration — and their exploitation by thugs and cheap-skates in this country. That we as a people have put price above ethics is a sign of how far we have fallen from our glory days.
Do you not believe that Mexico’s problems, which make their people want to come here, are the result of corruption at all levels of their government — much more than we have here? We do have corruption here, but it’s still much less here than in many places. Our laws against it still, by and large, get enforced. I do not blame the person risking life and limb and often paying great sums of money to thugs to come here — I would, too. I blame those in power — also thugs. That is why I suggested that our president not stand for a lecture from their president — especially when he appears to be on their side!
I don’t know if you are being tongue-in-cheek when you say that the US gets a “great benefit” from “cheap labor free of responsibilities” — I hope you are. What benefit can there be to our acting immorally?