OUR DEBT TO THE DREAMERS

All this malarkey about "you have to immigrate the legal way".

Most of the children who desperately came to the US illegally, came to escape the violence caused when the DEA decided to escalate the War on Some Drugs by fighting drug dealers South of the Border.

The resulting violence decimated families. Mothers and children fled for their lives.

We blithely ignore the drug violence in Mexico. Shoot someone in Chicago and it makes headlines. Hang fifty headless bodies from a bridge in Mexico, and we ignore it.

WE CAN NOT WIN THE WAR ON SOME DRUGS. The only way to beat the drug scourge is to GET TREATMENT to those whose substance use interferes with their ability to live life.

Our experiment in off-shoring the drug violence, provided us with LOTS of traumatized children who we should embrace and care for. Especially since our DEA caused the violence.

NAFTA was an attempt to get decent jobs for the people of Mexico. Because wages are only one part of the equation, NAFTA has strict regulations for union organizing and environmental protections. The reason the neo-cons want to get rid of NAFTA is that they want to move the jobs to Mexico without the pesky unions demanding that workers be paid. And without those pesky environmental rules, so they can trash Mexico.

The real problem with neo-cons is that they think that laws and orders are the way to get people to do what you want people to do.

People are not computers. People often respond to laws in the exact opposite way that you want them to respond.

You have to PERSUADE people. You can not just ORDER people around. Even torture will not get people to do what you ORDER tham to do.

I am tired of the neo-con fantasy that all people on welfare are lazy and stupid.

I am tired of the neo-con fantasy that they can bully us into discriminating against our neighbors.

I am tired of the neo-con fantasy that the only way to get respect is to get RICH.

I am seriously tired of the neo-con fantasy that men have an obligation to keep women from power.

The way you get respect is to acknowledge that you can make mistakes, and to do your best to fix the mistakes you did make.

Although prostitutes are willing to trade money for a pretend respect.

Stop reading Atlas Shrugged. You are not that architect. Start watching Citizen Kane. Do you really want to die a lonely death?