Flight Pundit

Build the Fence

Jun 6th 2007MichaelPolitics

7 Responses to “Build the Fence”

1. Raven on 06 Jun 2007 at Wed 06 June 2007 15:42:32 #

   They ain’t gonna build a fence worth any real protection. Who are we fooling?

   And once all these new POS laws become reality, we’re gonna see more damn illegals flooding the border gates to take the jobs no legal-illegal will be ABLE to do.

   I need a bottle of Jack maybe two. And now!

2. Raven on 06 Jun 2007 at Wed 06 June 2007 15:44:54 #

   and cowboy you really need to get that spam under control…lol…there are over 8000 of them in askimet and for some reason I can’t trash them from here.

   Get that COMMENT TIMEOUT plugin.
   http://www.jamesmckay.net/categories/wordpress/comment-timeout/

   I haven’t had any spam or trackback spam since I got that.

3. AirborneVet on 09 Jun 2007 at Sat 09 June 2007 06:53:20 #

   I’ve tried doing something. I’ve tried saying something. Haven’t you noticed MY blog is gone? Sure, I contribute to the one I have linked here, but my own, actual blog is gone. There are a few reasons, but the biggest is that I was just freakin’ plain tired of the crap I got for it, especially when I posted on illegal aliens. I once got over 400 comments, of which I posted none, all calling me racist, but using many cuss words with that and since I was notified of these comments by email, my email crashed. It gets old. I gave up a long time ago.
   The problem we have today is there are too many people who believe, or at least want to believe, that everyone is nice, everyone is good, they’re only mean to us because we asked for it, America is bad…blah blah blah. I want to move out of the town I live in because the majority who live here sincerely believe that hogwash! If America is so F-g bad, why does everyone want in?

4. Michael on 10 Jun 2007 at Sun 10 June 2007 13:23:33 #

   AV I know how you feel. but I think you need to do it for yourself. you can post at my site if you would like…

5. AirborneVet on 11 Jun 2007 at Mon 11 June 2007 17:24:05 #

   Thanks, but posting at Liberalism is a Mental Disorder is working for me. SOmeone else keeps it up. I only guest blog once in a while. You can check up on me if you like at http://airbornevet.livejournal.com
   This is a completely personal page about me and my family.
   I’ll keep reading!

6. Raven on 11 Jun 2007 at Mon 11 June 2007 17:58:29 #

   AV your rant is mine as well. It’s not a rant either- it’s a well aimed vent. I’ve been called every name in the book and then some; I’ve been threatened and ignored and all that. Somedays it doesn’t seem worth it, to do this blogging thing. But even if you reach just a few people isn’t it worthwhile? I’m not sure it is to be honest..and this blogging is time consuming. Right now America is in a state of raw moods and too many people have forgotten what happened on 9-11…which is the reason I started blogging. And since the Lemoncrats think they own American since last November we’re gonna see a lot of things that piss us off. Either we stay involved or we go into hiding blog wise. I haven’t decided which route I am taking. But I do feel your anger and frustration.

7. non-partisan on 21 Jun 2007 at Thu 21 June 2007 02:31:53 #

   Spending billions on an inevitably permeable fence between the US and Mexico will do nothing to keep out those who want to come. To provide a pair of examples, there are countless illegal immigrants in the US who come from countries that don’t even have land borders with our country, yet they still managed to arrive somehow. Between Europe and the lands of most of its immigrants there are entire oceans, seas and deserts, yet the immigrants still find a way to get there and stay. These examples alone demonstrate how useless a costly fence would be, not to mention any collateral damage nobody has thought of or predicted yet (environmental harm, even further destruction of our country’s image abroad, etc.)

   Like the EU has done with its poorer neighbors across land borders, the US should help Mexico improve its economy and political situation (those billions wasted on the fence could be used for example) and make Mexico a nicer place to stay, live and work for its own people (and more pleasant and safe for us to go visit and retire to). It’s really not that hard a task since Mexico is only somewhat ‘poor’ to begin with (it is one of the wealthiest ‘poor’ nations in the world, with an extremely sophisticated economy and billions in revenue from tourism, oil, agriculture, industry and services). If we gave a few billion per year to Mexico but required some results (better infrastructure, less corruption, significant economic and legal reform, a better business environment, etc. etc.), Mexico would slowly start to shine, and we would have a much friendlier neighbor that would be both grateful and indebted to us, since we would be giving them assistance through a positive message instead of forcing them to take from us in the form of illegal work. Once their economy is going well, it will become the magnet for Latin American immigration instead of the US (due to its proximity and the language).

   The fence-lovers’ viewpoint is pretty simplistic and based on the old-fashioned “us-or-them” thinking that only one of us can win. We can both win on this one, and I think claiming otherwise is just a cheap way for conservative Republican politicians to attract emotional votes from disgruntled, uncreative or downright racist members of their electorate who really couldn’t care less about Mexicans, even though they are our neighbors and have always been hugely important to us historically and economically. The US is too full of negative energy right now anyway. We need to stop being a country that puts up walls and helps other countries put up walls, and go back to being a country that helps people take them down or climb over them when they are unfair.