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Dog,

I'm waiting for a presidential candidate who is willing to have a "little chat" with our neighbors to the south.

They could talk about things like Mexico's avowed policy that encourages illegal immigration into the USA, the sanctuary for murderers of Americans in Mexico (more Americans have been murdered by illegal aliens than have died in Iraq), the Mexican Army protecting and transporting drug runners, and the kidnappings of many Americans in Mexico.

Oh, there's an invasion, allright. Only we're the ones being invaded.

DF
I can't decide if I'm amused or seriously irritated with the content of this article. THEY are angered? If they want to know what real anger is, they need to visit Americans living in cities bordering Mexico. Please! Personally, until Mexico makes a concerted effort to stop Mexicans from entering the U.S. illegally, I don't think the U.S. should trade with Mexico AT ALL.
Maybe we should be demanding that Mexico Build the wall to KEEP THEIR CITIZENS IN. Of perhaps it will be used for that purpose the way the Berlin Wall was used, TO KEEP US IN.

WALLS ARE NOT THE SOLUTION. Neither is this carping about increasing the labor force to replace the retiring baby boomers who are going to be such a drain on the companies they built and worked for in the future.
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Originally posted by unclegus:
Maybe we should considering invading Mexico and take it for our own?


Please no...the last thing we need is another country to liberate...gives me a headache just thinking about it. We have enough problems in this country without adding Mexico's huge list of problems to it. JMHO
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Originally posted by EdEKit:
Maybe we should be demanding that Mexico Build the wall to KEEP THEIR CITIZENS IN. Of perhaps it will be used for that purpose the way the Berlin Wall was used, TO KEEP US IN.

WALLS ARE NOT THE SOLUTION. Neither is this carping about increasing the labor force to replace the retiring baby boomers who are going to be such a drain on the companies they built and worked for in the future.


"Mending Wall"
---by Robert Frost

SOMETHING there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.

The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.

I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.

Oh, just another kind of outdoor game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
He is all pine and I am apple-orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors."

Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
"Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down!" I could say "Elves" to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself.

I see him there,
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."


You may wish to pause and contemplate the meaning of Frost's "Mending Wall" in light of the topic at hand. Ultimately, there will be an exam.
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