National Guard-Which Border?

[ggiese]

Probably not Pedro, but Pedro Jr. will.
BTW, when exactly was legal immigration "wide open"? IIRC, there has always been some regulation of immigrants. Granted, there were times when regulations were much more lax, but never non-existant.

The Japanese auto industry is a poor example. First, they pay their workers shitty wages to work long hours and be satisfied living in an apartment, that they buy like a condo, with 10 other members of their family, and the apartment costs them so much money that they make payments through several generations of their family.
Second, they introduce low quality cars at low prices only to jack up the cost later. Those shitty Japanese cars now cost as much, if not more than, American cars. They tricked stupid Americans into buying a throw away car because it's not reasonable to fix them. People used to be able to buy a car, and keep it for 20+ years. Now they have to buy a new one every 2-4 years.

The main question people have to ask themselves is this; Do we want to be LIKE other Countries, or BETTER than other Countries? I know what my answer is.

I just bought my first Japanese car, after spending my life tuned to the voices in my head from being a child and hearing that the Japanese were stealing jobs from the US workers. My father owned a Datsun B210 way back, and it was a pile of crap... But my Infiniti (aka Nissan, aka Datsun) is another story - that car is an incredibly well built car. And they have now a history of reliablity which cannot be matched by American cars. I'm sorry I'd not looked at them before.

This country has an arrogance problem. We are by far damn near the richest per capita country in the world (compare our size to the other richer countries and WE ARE the richest per capita country in the world by size). Go to just about any other country in the world and the difference is stark (i.e. - visit Mexico, or Jamaica some time...)

Our youth think it's beneath them to shine shoes, or wait tables, or cut grass, or meat pack... Sorry, but it's true. And it's a societal problem. My son is equally affected as the others - he works, but he could work harder and chooses not to. There's no reason to, in his mind - he has what he wants - and plenty of it. If not, he takes a job to make the necessary money, and then quickly loses interest in working. My 23 yr old daughter feels the government owes her something - she doesn't want to work for $8-10 an hour and lose her benefits... Pathetic...

My grandmother, an immigrant from Italy, came here LEGALLY at age 16, not knowing the language (but she worked hard to learn it in order to communicate). She took whatever work she could get (the best was working in the kitchen at a Chinese restaurant). But - she was motivated to do better than just working in a kitchen - she worked hard for every penny she earned. And died a wealthy woman. She was scrubbing floors in a nursing home weeks before her death because she felt she should, not because she needed to.

Hey - if you want to make $3/hour - more power to you. There are plenty of those jobs out there. That's why the Mexican's are flooding over the border - because there are NOT $3.00/hr. jobs in Mexico. That is theoretically supposed to be the end result of NAFTA.

My grandmother motivated me be saying, "the world needs ditch diggers". And I tell my kids "Mediocre is easy. You don't have to do much to be mediocre". Someday, maybe, it may sink in...