David Lieb wrote: "So, Buster, what you are telling us is that, if you had
been born twenty-some years ago a few hundred miles south of where you live
today, you would cheerfully accept your poverty and not think of
temporarily migrating north for the summer regardless of the legality?"
But *that* is just the point that too many Americans refuse to recognize.
The United States is providing an escape valve for the safety and
preservation of the oligarchs of Mexico. Mexico is most certainly NOT an
impoverished nation. Vast oil reserves were discovered a century ago, and
today Mexico exports 1.863 million barrels of oil *a day*! Mexico is the
second largest source of American oil imports. Those barrels of oil, my
friends, brings in barrels of money. (At $90 a bbl, you do the math.)
Unfortunately, the Mexican Revolution, while it may have been by the
people, did not benefit all of the people. It simply created a new
aristocracy, a new oligarchy to replace the old one. As such, the wealth
of Mexico has not been spread through the people as it has in the U.S.
Were it not for the escape valve to the north, those who would not
"cheerfully accept poverty" would revolt and bring down the oligarchy! In
trudging northward, the very elements that could improve Mexico's society
have instead left it. In allowing that unfettered invasion, the U.S. is
complicit in allowing the oligarch to ignore the plight of the people who
remain.
Just think about it for a minute. Why in the world does the Mexican
Government give "emergency packs" to those who wish to invade the U.S.?
Why does the Mexican Government even include maps of the best entry points
to escape detection? (A bigger question, though, is why those "emergency
packs" include condoms?)
No, those would allow this invasion are simply doing a greater disservice
to those who remain behind.
(Well, we can surely tell that winter is acomin'!)
Buster
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