What is wrong with this Administration?
I come home from a very nice family dinner with our friends at Bar Pitti, their local kitchen and I boot up Yahoo and what do I read? The U.S. to Tighten Border Controls. New rules to be phased in by 2008, you will need a passport to get back in from to the US from Canada and Mexico. UGH!
Eventually Americans will wake up that this Administration is so out of touch with reality. Other countries have had it with us. Our dollar is plummeting and I would find it hard to believe that the rest of the world will keep our currency afloat because we are so powerful. Ha! Our holier than thou attitude will eventually kick us back in the ass.
We have entered the age of a global economy. Frankly we entered it quite awhile ago. Thanks to the Internet, the destruction of the Berlin wall and the Euro, times have changed. Our kids are competing with the French, the Germans, the Indians, the Australians and the Indonesians for the same jobs. Unless we spend some serious money on education, they might win. U.S. companies are looking to do business with the best, period, because it isn’t that difficult to partner with companies overseas. There is instant communication. The best and the brightest prevail regardless of location (oh, unless Mr. Bush attempts to pass more regulatory laws). Hello Mr. Bush. Wake up!!!
Every country around the world has issues with terrorism for a helluva longer than we have had. When I was in college, back in the fall of 1981, in London, there were signs all over the tube to be wary of empty bags, etc. and report them immediately to the police. By the way, being an inclusive country only pisses off the terrorists more particularly while we spend money over seas fighting in their countries to execute on our vision for their land.
Why don’t we just open up our borders between Mexico and Canada. Let’s create an Amero. Take NAFTA to the ninth degree. You can go freely back and forth. New jobs can be created. We can educate an entire land of people that can live productive lives instead of being pissed off at the world because they live in poverty and are uneducated. That would be if we actually spent money on our education system instead of just giving it back to people who don’t need it. Hello.
When we are long gone, and our children’s great grandchildren are here to look back at history, they will be aghast at the morons that ran our Government during the George Bush Jr. tenure. How out of touch with the times they actually were. Perhaps there will be a different currency for each continent that is it. We will be able to get to Japan from the US in under 4 hours. Business will only be done globally.
Let’s look to the future. Please Democrats, get your shit together and get us out of this mess before it is too late.
Comments (Archived):
Nothing like liberal angst to make a person say some rather silly things.
Imagine having to use one passport to visit Canada and Mexico, both foreign countries the last time I checked.
I’m for free movement of labor and open borders, but not at the price of compromising our security.
I’m not advocating your Administration’s actions, but come on! You have never lived in some ex-USSR country. We have real troubles getting in any country outside ex-USSR borders. Passports, visas, interviews… Presumption of innocence? Oh, puhlease! Visiting US as a traveller? Forget about it.
You’ll need only a passport, so what’s the deal?
“Why don’t we just open up our borders between Mexico and Canada. Let’s create an Amero. Take NAFTA to the ninth degree.
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Please Democrats, get your shit together and get us out of this mess before it is too late.”
That’s too funny. Who needs to wake up? If free trade is your thing babe, you’re looking to the wrong people.
I have recently heard that come January 2006, a passport will be required for interstate travel. I don’t know if this is true or not. The excuse/justification is to control the flow of illegal aliens. Bullshit reason, imho
“Every country around the world has issues with terrorism for a helluva longer than we have had. When I was in college, back in the fall of 1981, in London, there were signs all over the tube to be wary of empty bags, etc. and report them immediately to the police.”
Yep, back then the US (ok, some of the NYC Irish) were sponsoring terrorism rather than being victims of it. We could not even have litter bins on the street in London for fear of the IRA leaving bombs in them. How times change…
In Boston the local administration is talking about having to pay a toll to get into the city. Now that is outrageous.
I’ve never understood this argument about throwing money towards education or the US educational system.
Is the reason are students are, supposedly, falling behind because there is not enough money in the system.
I find that hard to believe. Countries like China and India have bright students, but not because they threw enormous amounts of money into their system. Up until recently, they didn’t even have that kind of money and, whatever they currently put into their system, which supports a student population much, much larger than ours, will pale in comparison to what we put in.
A good education comes from the home. A stable, nurturing, family, which encourages it’s children to study and not come home and play video games and watch TV, is what is needed. Not all families are like that, for one reason or another (job loss, drugs, etc. etc.). I went thru the public school system, and was succesful because of my own hard work and my family’s support – not because the particular school system I went thru (which was average). I got into a good college, and just continued to work hard.
Of course, I didn’t have to deal with my parents losing their jobs, going on drugs, going thru a divorce etc.
These are some of the real issues that need to be addressed (no, I’m not “against divorce” but we need to address the fact that a child’s support structure could fall apart, or weaken, as a result).
Being of Indian origin, and raised in the US, that is how I feel in general, but there is the flip side to it which I’ve realized growing up here, and which is lost on countries like china, india, etc.
There is the side of the kid who plays video games and sits on the computer incessantly and with such focus, becoming a game programmer, or creating Napster. There is the side of the kid watching sitcoms all the time becoming a stand up comic with his or her own TV show, or an actor or entertainer of some sort who was influenced by such and such show or actor while growing up. These opportunities are mostly found in this country.
These may be exceptions, but I have a feeling they are not.
Can I please have returned to my life the 45 seconds it took to read this post? This post is arguably the most stupid thing ever written. Can this be submited to a contest for the years silliest writing. Yes let’s create an Amero. Now that we have decided that its time to decide important issues, like whether to dine tonight at Bouley or Bar Masa.
Can I please have returned to my life the 45 seconds it took to read this post? This post is arguably the most stupid thing ever written. Can this be submited to a contest for the years silliest writing. Yes let’s create an Amero. Now that we have decided that its time to decide important issues, like whether to dine tonight at Bouley or Bar Masa.
Typical lefty rant. Guess what? Canada doesn’t want to be a part of the US. Nothing personal. They just prefer to be themselves. And IMAGINE needing a passport to travel to a foreign country. Maybe you should take that to the Supreme Court. Don’t let the fact that every other country in the world requires passports to travel. And in some countries, you even need permission to travel within the country. You don’t know what its like to have freedom restricted. Pull your head out of your NYC rear end.