A stab at the border issue
I am getting pretty worn out on the whole border issue and I wish we could just put it to rest and focus. Come on people! Focus on the big picture. You see, they are doing it again. The political hacks have pulled out this great big colorful pinyata for us to kick crap out of. We are all so busy looking at this thing that we forget we are involved in a pretty massive war with people getting maimed and killed on a daily basis. We are nearly out of oil.
The border issue is really a bi-partisan issue. Both sides want to claim credit for doing something about it but neither side actually wants to do something about it. Dems are afraid any law restricting the flow across the border will be preceived as anti-hispanic and possibly racist. The republicans see it as bad for business as anything restricting the flow would decrease the labor pool thus creating a greater demand and higher pay for labor.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think any of the politicians want to solve the problem. If they do, I have two really simple solutions that I believe would work. If you can think of a reason--a real, practical reason it would not work then please, let me know.
The solution is simple. You charge a hefty fine for any employer to hire an undocumented worker, say $10,000 per offense. This alone would most likely not do much as most people who commit crimes don't expect to get caught and this praticular crime would be very difficult to prosecute without witnesses and whatnot. But here's the kicker--this is what make it work--You give any illegal a fasttrack to citizinship for turning in an employer.
This throws the balance off. An employer might be willing to hire an illegal when he knows he can get away with paying him $10.00 an hour cash when he'd have to pay a citizen $15.00 for that citizen to get the same take-home pay. Not sure about where you live, but around here you cannot live off of $10.00 an hour--even if you aren't paying taxes.
Another way to fix the problem woud be to allow Mexico to be come the 51st state or maybe the 51-55th state. All of there young people can come up here to work and all our retired people can go down there to, well, retire. If we are going to have open borders, why not have that go both ways?
My belief is that none of this will happen. There will be no "fix." There might be some sort of political hackery. Something that lets both sides claim a partial victory and might involve some sort of amnesty. Something that simply clears the slate for yet another wave. The real problem, I think, is we need to agree on if it is actually a problem or not. If it is a real problem, fix it and move on. If it isn't then how 'bout we talk about something that matters. Something like what are we going to do when we run out of gas or why our children are dying in Iraq and Afghanastan for the last few drops of it.
The border issue is really a bi-partisan issue. Both sides want to claim credit for doing something about it but neither side actually wants to do something about it. Dems are afraid any law restricting the flow across the border will be preceived as anti-hispanic and possibly racist. The republicans see it as bad for business as anything restricting the flow would decrease the labor pool thus creating a greater demand and higher pay for labor.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think any of the politicians want to solve the problem. If they do, I have two really simple solutions that I believe would work. If you can think of a reason--a real, practical reason it would not work then please, let me know.
The solution is simple. You charge a hefty fine for any employer to hire an undocumented worker, say $10,000 per offense. This alone would most likely not do much as most people who commit crimes don't expect to get caught and this praticular crime would be very difficult to prosecute without witnesses and whatnot. But here's the kicker--this is what make it work--You give any illegal a fasttrack to citizinship for turning in an employer.
This throws the balance off. An employer might be willing to hire an illegal when he knows he can get away with paying him $10.00 an hour cash when he'd have to pay a citizen $15.00 for that citizen to get the same take-home pay. Not sure about where you live, but around here you cannot live off of $10.00 an hour--even if you aren't paying taxes.
Another way to fix the problem woud be to allow Mexico to be come the 51st state or maybe the 51-55th state. All of there young people can come up here to work and all our retired people can go down there to, well, retire. If we are going to have open borders, why not have that go both ways?
My belief is that none of this will happen. There will be no "fix." There might be some sort of political hackery. Something that lets both sides claim a partial victory and might involve some sort of amnesty. Something that simply clears the slate for yet another wave. The real problem, I think, is we need to agree on if it is actually a problem or not. If it is a real problem, fix it and move on. If it isn't then how 'bout we talk about something that matters. Something like what are we going to do when we run out of gas or why our children are dying in Iraq and Afghanastan for the last few drops of it.
posted by F.W. Vulcan at 10:18 AM
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