The Cafe At Del Rio

Let me see..there are liberals on the East Coast, West Coast, Southern states, and heck I even bet there are a few in the midwest. Better draw that sanity curtain around your own little world and hope us "liberals/progressives" don't slip through and infect your little bastion of paradise. Perish the thought that perhaps liberals might love this country just as much as you do. That couldn't be true.....could it?

Sam, we finally agree! I too think we need to embrace immigrants from South/Central America. AND I think we need to strengthen trade relations with those countries. If we don't take those countries under OUR wing, you can be sure that countries like China and Russia will.

Sadly, you went on to suggest fencing off New England and "liberal" states.

Actually, part of me agrees with your suggestion. So let's examine a split between the "blue" and "red" states.

As a whole, the "blue" states give more money to the federal government than they take. While the "red" states take more federal money than they give. (of course there are exceptions)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelpint...

I imagine the blue states would have an easier go of things when they weren't subsidizing the red states.

Blue states also have the top universities in the world. Princeton, Harvard, Yale, MIT, Berkely, Stanford, Caltech, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Cornell, etc. After the split, should we allow red state students to cross the border to blue state schools?

Red States also (on average) have higher rates of teen pregnancy and obesity than blue states.

http://womensissues.about.com/od/datinga...

http://calorielab.com/news/2008/07/02/fa...

Now the question becomes, when we split, who gets the U.S.A. name? Well, this past election all of the original colonies were blue, except for SC and GA. So I think the blue states should take it.

Of course, I'm being facetious. It is the UNITED States of America. Which means we all stand together, even when we disagree.

(Besides, the blue states need the food produced in the red states, and the red states need the technology, universities, etc. of the blue states.)

"I look at all the money and trade we have sent to Red China. What if we'd have used that same energy and money to beef up the Americas?" Major failure of logic.

We didn't use money to "beef up China." They beefed themselves up. We sent money to China because China made goods we wanted to buy. We traded with China (albeit to our own disadvantage, because the Chinese don't play by the rules) because we wanted to buy attractively priced Chinese manufactured goods. The Chinese opened up their economic system, invested in becoming a producer nation, and became a player on the world economic stage. The Mexicans took the enormous wealth they reaped from from their oil and instead of building a manufacturing and industrial base that would employ their own people, they allowed their politicians and those who had bought the politicians to steal the lion's share of it. The Mexicans don't have all that much to sell us, other than the oil.

We did, as a matter of fact, agree to free trade with Mexico. We have not treated them like second class trading partners in any way shape or form. Yes, many Mexicans are nice, hard-working people. I lived in Mexico for several years. The vast majority of the illegal Mexicans who come here are from the very bottom of the Mexican economic ladder, the least educated and the most prone to criminal activity, and activity that negatively impacts the well being of Americans who have had it forced on them. Mexicans know that. Mexicans' houses are surrounded by walls, fences, fitted with metal doors, guarded by vicious dogs, and if they can afford it, armed men. They don't want to be around those people either, and they don't want to be robbed, burgled or kidnapped.

By tolerating illegal immigration, we are agreeing to take in the dregs of Mexican society. The Mexicans I know who came here legally and followed the rules feel ripped off and embarrassed by their compatriots who come illegally and don't follow the rules. They are all for the fence. They understand the need for fences, walls, metal doors, barred windows, and vicious dogs. That is why they left.

One of the major reasons this country has been a decent, prosperous and progressive place to live is that we have something called the Rule of Law. People whose first act on our soil is to break our law are tearing that fabric of decency and respect that has been so carefully built up for more than 200 years. They spit on our Rule of Law. Once their population reaches critical mass, we won't live under the Rule of Law, either. South Texas is already more than half-way there. You don't like the fence? Hope you enjoy living in a walled compound.

I always get a kick out of the inadvertant falacy of saying "the mexican invasion of america" Mexico is in "America" We are the United States, people misuse the term America far too frequently. The Canadian Yukon down to the tip of Argentinia is America.

The anchor baby thing stinks, and we know that. I was trying to provide some long range thinking about Mexico, and the steady stream of new "citizens" into our country.

1. We, as a nation, have not been effective coming up with any plan to stop Mexico's invasion of the USA.

2. Soon, there will be more Mexicans in the USA than Mexico, and they will be sympathetic at least to Mexico, and that will cause problems, especially since Democrats, in their quest for power that will never end, will bestow rights upon the illegals, and give them anything they want for votes.

3. I think we need to look 30-40 years down the road. Like I said, we either make Mexico part of the USA, or eventually, Mexico will take part of the USA.

And, shaarhues, it was my brother Don, who I think you know, that told us along time ago when Reagan got Alan Simpson's' immigration bill passed, that we should just merge with Mexico and be done with it.

Our current immigration policy is doing nothing but building up hostilities on both sides.

Thanks for reading, and I mean that!