here’s an angle on the situation.
drugs keep flooding over the border so let’s spend a gazillion dollars building a wall. why are drugs coming over the border. well because there’s a demand for them. who’s demanding them. holy shit. look at this; who’s doing all the drugs? the wealthy upper middle classes, or the lower working classes. the lower classes, well because they’re miserable and drugs give them the fix they need to get from day to day. they’re too goddamn broke and shit’s way to fucking expensive to get ahead anyway… might as well buy a bag rather than put that money in a pickle jar, right? well are they miserable because they’re on drugs, or are the on drugs because they’re miserable? i bet you can guess.
here’s my idea. we seize all the money and assets from the parasites that have it all, redistribute it back to those who produced the wealth (the workers), get them set up in a decent life in which they’ll find healthier ways to enjoy themselves, assign them to a job at which they can be productive, lower the demand for drugs and therefore the illegal traffic over the border, remove trump from office and give him a job at bojangles working the fry pit, stop building the wall, and spend that gazillion in more useful ways for the society.
side note to those imbeciles who believe the left is a threat to the paternal institutions that define conservative ideology. it is precisely the left that will institute the necessary authoritarian structures that will circumvent the excessive freedoms that exist in the free market society that allow the scum bags of the useless lower class to become miserable drug addicts.
i never tire of hearing the right complain about all the problems of the lower classes… which is the glorious mess that it has made. then the government goes to spending outrageous amounts of money to fix the problems that capitalism creates, while screaming that capitalism is the solution.
and another thing. you think all the mexicans would be trying to cross the border if mexican industry were more stablized? and what do you think caused the destablization of that country’s economy? lazy mexicans and lack or resources? nope. bad infrastructure? yep. and why is that? because the wealthier nations got a hegemony on everything and don’t give a shit about the mexicans unless they can pick tomatoes for seventeen cents an hour.
gimme the stats, dipper!