Mexican Tariffs Aren't Penny Wise and Pound Foolish

It is rare that one has the opportunity to use old cliches to describe current events. In the instance of tariffs on Mexico one might recognize that President Trump was not penny wise and pound foolish. If one doesn’t defend the nation against millions of illegal immigrants from all around the world entering the U.S. illegally, and all of the cross-border drug trafficking, in order to satisfy some global capitalist investors in Mexican production, one could lose the nation, rendering it a tribal area or subroutine of foreign interests eventually.

There is no harm in doing things the right way in national political affairs. Often there are right and wrong courses of statesmanship to take against the paradigm of historically better or worse positions for a nation to take. President Trump is making the hard yet right decision in defending the border from a neighbor nation with an aggressive, perverse attitude toward U.S. border integrity, even though there are tens of millions of Democrats in the United States that are for loose, ineffective enforcement. They prefer to abort American children and build the nation with illegal immigrants and their five kids per coupling unit.