Category: News and Views
An open letter to President Felipe Calderon. Coming off Labor Day, Mr. President, there is just not a better time to talk about the American worker
than now. Hard working, dedicated, loyal, resourceful, inventive, honest. The American worker is the model by which employees around the world should aspire
to be like, but there are those jobs that exist that even the mighty American worker just won't do. Luckily that's where you come in, Mexico. I'm so excited
to hear the news that trucking companies from Mexico are now operating freely here in the United States. Honestly it seems like such a logical idea with
absolutely no flaws whatsoever. I mean, what could possibly go wrong, Felipe? It's not like your country has millions of peoples willing to pile themselves
up like human sardines just to cross the border illegally. No, uh-uh. If that were the situation, then I'd be a little worried. However, since Mexico has
a vibrant economy, a surplus of great jobs, unmatched pride and simply no corruption whatsoever, I'm completely at ease with the idea of giant trucks from
Mexico roaming around here in the U.S. if you didn't have a country with such integrity and such spirit, one might consider this program simply a bad idea.
Plus, it's not like there's all kinds of drug problems south of the border or terrorists out there are looking for new ways to penetrate our border with
large caches of weapons or even a nuclear weapon. That's certainly not happening and if it was, I'd certainly be concerned if that threat were out there,
obviously if terrorists knew about available transportation across the U.S. border with such large storage capacity, we'd be all over them because they'd
be all over that. But thankfully Americans know that no amount of money besides maybe $75 or, call me crazy, a hundred bucks is worth selling out America
over to any Mexican. >From the bottom of our hearts, President Felipe, we'd like to share this monumental step towards a borderless north Mexico with a
toast. To Mex-Ameri-Canada. Seriously, you provide us so so many valuable goods, many more than the commonly known imports from Mexico, hoards of illegal
immigrants, hard core narcotics, and those funny hats. You give our large corporations really cheap labor, and I don't even know how to repay you for that.
Felipe, I've got to run. Got to get back to the beach, but I'd like to close by addressing the naysayers to let you know that they don't speak for the majority
of Americans. Well, actually they do, but you don't have anything to worry about with those guys because the people in charge, the American politicians,
they don't listen to the naysayers, either. So relax, kick back, and enjoy Labor Day. Sincerely, just some slug from America.
*grin* but that's exactly the point, the Mexicans who cross the border get jobs because a bunch of people and corporations are willing, well eager, to hire them because it's so much cheaper than hiring an American worker. That's the root for the problem, if the people had no reason to go to the U.S. they wouldn't.
And it's up to the government to give licenses to trucking companies and I betcha corporations are quite happy to get service from Jose Trucks (or whatever) because, provided they can speak Spanish, they'll probably get transportation half price.
In an eceonomy built on the open market and where money talks, and government is supposed to have as little role as possible, and let the market forces decide, the market has spoken, Mexicans are cheaper, work harder and there's plenty of people willing to learn Spanish, bye bye to American workers.
cheers
-B