Democrats have except no interest in defending the American
working class. It is a middle-class party of greed chasing after Wall Street
and boardroom positions. They can offer depravity and benefits to the upwardly
mobile class yet much may be smoke and mirrors as real wages decline for the
middle class and families often have two SUV-winners. The ordinary working
class is history's lint. Workers need to rely on Republicans to stop illegal
migrant worker saturation of the nation and that is like expecting slavers to
defend against importation of slaves. With so much cheap labor globally and
with Democrat Party leaders levering more and more the future of those without
Democrat Party class qualifications or wealth is decreasingly bright.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixrHYSjMfQI
Since the end of the cold war the national Democratic Party
has thrown in the towel on the defense of working class economic facts. Labor
unions were sent to the hospice of economics while Democrat Party bosses moved
toward Wall Street, Krug champagne and salmon caviar.
Democrats signed off on
the unnecessary Bush era foreign wars and supported outsourcing of jobs to
China and insourcing of illegal alien workers. With the post-cold war
environment of billions of new laborers too compete against the only way to
defend American workers from drowning in global competition was to enforce
border security and keep illegal migrant workers out. In the decline of
American industrialism and wages of the working class sober management of
national labor supply was vital. Democrats refused to secure the Mexican border
against terrorist and illegal worker crossing.
The present Democrat administration has set an agenda of
poverty for a new generation of American workers compiling vast public debt
with permanent low wages. When inflation returns high unemployment and
inflation may make purchases of food difficult. Yet the public is encouraged to
live on government food and phone life support anyway, who needs work, and what
value are college degrees anyway when cheap labor supply is available and
millions of service jobs can be made to steady even the unemployed middle class
in minimum wage work?
Republicans should pass a border security bill in the House.
If after five years of zero illegal immigration they want to take another look
at the separate issue of what to do with the ten to twenty illegal aliens
already in the nation that would be reasonable. It is probable though that it
would require five years minimum to even construct an effective Mexican boundary
control zone across the southern border. A decree by King Canute will not just
roll back the tide with a pleasing aesthetic ambiance.
So why should anyone believe the next try would be better?
Before the last virtual border fence was built Congress believed it was a
sure-fire state-of-the-art go. Selling the Brooklyn Bridge to the Senate might
not be as difficult or take weeks to get 68 votes. The Los Angeles Times
reported in 2010 that the virtual fence worked on just 53 miles of the
2000-mile border.
The last time D.H.S.
did not have adequate over-site of its prime contractor. After reading a
quality fiction book by the attorney who impeached Gov. Blogojevich of Illinois
about government insider corruption one wonders if Boeing of Chicago- the
builder of the last virtual fence- will bet returning to the friendly Obama
trough again.
The Secure Border
Initiative was virtually a leaky bucket of a sales job. The physical fence was
not completed and the virtual fence was non-sense. Since the contract for the
last one was cancelled in 2011 the administration and Democrat accomplices of
the Senate might feel its time to shovel some more pork.
Operation Igloo White
developed by the U.S. Government during the Vietnam Conflict was one of the
first large scale efforts at constructing a virtual fence to interdict
opposition employment force illegal aliens. Those soldiers were of the
communist political theory and infiltrated supplies down the Ho Chi Minh trail
in to the Republic of Vietnam. The sewing of sensors along the trail to alert
satellites and scramble bombing missions when opposition work-force
infiltrators arrived to cut down the average wages of free market workers
(well, perhaps this analogy isn't terribly accurate yet the point that the
virtual fences are too expensive is the point here) of poor South Vietnamese
peasant laborers wasn't entirely ineffective.
The costs of the virtual fence
were said to be a self-inflicted wound to American treasure as it was
asymmetric economic war. The military supplies lost by the infiltrators were of
far less cost than the virtual fence technology. Personnel costs to the
infiltrators were significant.
Physical barriers are
sometimes effective against ground-game invaders. Hadrian's Wall built by the
Roman Army in the 2nd century along the Scottish border kept those savages out
of Roman England for quite some time. Illegal aliens today have more numbers
and technology than the Scot savages back in the day yet not the energy and
time. If Hadrian's Wall worked against the Scots a new, improved berm with
hybrid electric cars driving along the top to patrol should work now.
Building physical
boundary defense walls creates jobs. They can also set aside ecological reserve
areas for wildlife-perhaps jaguars and other endangered species of the South.
The two lines of Walls of Constantinople kept the Byzantine Empire safe enough
for nearly one thousand years. And let us not forget Offa's Dyke of the 8th
century that protected Mercia from the savages of Powys (Welch) back in the
day. The berm was as much as 85 feet wide and 8 feet high and ran along areas
between the kingdoms without natural barriers.
Clawdd
Offa can be an inspiration to builders of a meaningful new border
barrier between the U.S.A. and Mexico. An All-American aqueduct could be built
along with a berm to carry saltwater pumped up from the Pacific Ocean to the
continental divide that is allowed to flow downhill in each direction. Some of
the saltwater would be evaporated and condensed under plastic to make
freshwater for agriculture and recreation. Solar power might be used to give a
boost to the vast siphon exploiting the difference between Pacific and Gulf of
Mexico waters to maintain a constant flow rate to replace water lost to
evaporation and other uses.
A
border barrier recreation and desalination zone would be a better project than
a sterile fence that doesn't grow anything at all and is an experimental area
for infiltration, climbing, tunneling and so forth. A fence is a thing that
inventors might use large mortars to launch illegal watermelons over, and
catapults flinging people with parachutes might be attempted on the silly
fence. Probably fence contractors want the work that thereafter is as much an
eyesore as any for-profit prison's fences.
Why
the U.S. Congress has no imagination or desire to make a profit on large-scale
projects these days is uncertain. In former times they has the Columbia Basin
project, the Apollo program, The Tennessee Valley Authority and so forth. The
Congressional ideas about border security flim flam fencing are irritating.
Some of us like neighborhoods without ugly California fencing subdivisions so
that wildlife can wander freely. Border control zones need aesthetic earthworks
and water filled canals that are useful and park-like yet effective. Building a
prison infrastructure to keep unemployed Americans from leaving eventually
isn't a good idea. Teach the unemployed to fish in a desert by building a canal
filled with piped-in water is to keep illegal workers out too.
Even two border patrolmen
per mile instead of one won't stop careful infiltration of terrorists and shock
workers. Without patrol cars driving atop a series of reinforced berms with
green space between as well as canals the defense infrastructure is more to
keep bureaucrats and lawyers out rather than illegal workers that Democrat
politicians like.
