Thursday, January 17, 2019

Argument For A Border Wall

Here is one of my arguments for a border wall on the Mexican border.

What President Trump should be asking is, "Will your children be better or worse off if we don't build a wall vs if we do build a wall?"

What we have to do is to start looking farther down the road rather than just to the next election  and I feel that focusing on our children is one way to do that.  You know that my basic objective for the USA is to raise the median quality of life in the USA for my children and yours.  We are not just talking about the top rich people like Polosi and liberals in California who have locked doors and fences around their homes.

We need to agree on the objective for our children, not us and focus on the future median family income for a change.  I don't know how it could be clearer that more immigration of any kind will lower our future median family income.  Remember how I have pointed out how the natural resources factor impacts economics?  In the future, those natural resources will become even more valuable and will be even more important to our children.  More immigrants will mean more mouths to divide our natural resources between. It is for our children that we need to assure that those natural resources will be there for :our" children.  For those who feel that value added human labor is the only thing that produces wealth, I remind you that it will become a smaller part in the future.  I have also pointed out that it is technology that will produce the most value added labor in the future and I can tell you that illegal immigrants crossing  our border from Mexico are "not" the ones who will participate in that technology.  Those people are among the least educated and least likely to have children who focus on technology.  Sorry, but those are the facts.  Asians are the only major group of immigrants who focus on technology and they actually raise the median family income rather than lower it.  Sorry, but those are the facts too.

Back to my message.  At all levels, we need to see if we can change the argument from one of blind stubbornness to focusing on what will be best for our children's economic future.  I think that if we can change the focus that we will have a winning position.  Everyone should be focusing on the future of their children rather than their own selfish short range benefits.  We need to stop being "one movers" and focus on the future of our families and our country.  We don't own this country, we inherited it and we will be passing it on to our children and our job is to make sure it better than we found it!  President Trump needs to be saying something like that!