Some Things are Hard to Keep Inside...

 

Forgive me if I use this blog as an emotional outlet. Some things are hard to just keep inside. Watching the news sometimes seems like slow torture. Yes, I watch too much.

What is happening to our country? This question is overly generalized and rhetorical I suppose – some might consider it an old man’s statement and… here it comes… are 'America’s best days behind us?'

For example:  undocumented immigrants streaming across our southern border.  And Biden and his administration seem to ignore the harmful, even disastrous, implications.  While common sense tells us that the situation, if unchecked, will degrade, potentially destroy our country. So, what is going on? What is the sense of it? What is the justification? Is Biden so impaired he fails to see that this tide of immigrants will undermine the quality of life for US citizens? Cannot he see the cost of the services required to assimilate these illegals; as well as potentially criminal elements? Does he care about current citizens? The answer of course is probably not… he does not really care. But why…

Let us see:

1)     Many major players in the US economy will benefit from the open borders and the hoped for ‘cheap’ labor. Such as the giant agriculture operations, processing plants and product distributors. The service industry, the hotel / motel business is a good example – again cheap labor. And, we can include construction jobs that normally are hard to fill involving difficult, sometimes dangerous jobs; and exist under very competitive labor cost situations.  They are jobs that most Americans are unwilling to do – too hard, too dangerous, too low paid.

2)     Other than the above corporate / business profit makers (assuredly the big political doners); what is in it for the Biden Administration? Well, they of course are counting on the immigrants being steadfast Democrats – which is the ultimate game. To be a politician, inherently, their first priority is:  What’s in it for me? Have you ever wondered how many politicians become multi-millionaires on a government paycheck?

 

Relevant (I am not sure) but I would like to relate some of my experience:

For two years, in the military, I lived in the Philippines (Angeles City) right outside Clark AFB. Being a junior officer, my wife and I were required to live ‘off-base.’  What was that like:  Well, on the positive side (at least for us), we had a live-in housekeeper / maid. We had a ‘yard boy’ that kept our home exterior in pristine condition. How did we afford such things on a Lieutenant’s salary? Well, that was because the maid’s normal living conditions were so abysmal, that she preferred living with us in an extra room. We paid her the normal rates that were better than the employment she could find elsewhere. The ‘yard boy,’ who was not a boy, but a young man trying to survive, was very appreciative of the job and what we paid. Did my wife and I feel a little guilty? Yes, of course we did. We both came from very middle-class homes. But this was the Philippines.

OK, what was the neighborhood you lived in like? It was kind of nice. However, it was totally surrounded by a 10’ wall with (literally) broken glass imbedded in the top of the wall. We had armed guards that patrolled the complex 24 hours a day. And the gate to the community, had two guards (armed with shotguns) that checked everyone in and out of the complex. I could go on. But, you get the picture.

And, about now you are asking:  What is the relevance?

 

My point is that, potentially, this is what our country can and will become unless we have secure borders. It will become the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots.’  The ‘haves’ will live in gated communities with guards.

And, what about the ‘have-nots,’ that are most Americans. They will be discriminated against, victimized, and forgotten. Think about it folks before it is too late to go back. The United States of America is the greatest country the world has ever known. Please, please, let us try and keep it.

True Nelson

 

“Let not anyone pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than those good men should look on and do nothing.

He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.”

John Stuart Mill / 1867