Border Fence = Boffo!
About to get political here, so please ignore if you're not in the mood to read something you might disagree with.I love this country. Sometimes I love it so much I fucking hate it. Right now would be one of those times. I have to assume that in the face of a 29% approval rating, our president has decided that there's only one thing left for him to do. You'd think that one thing would be to actually listen to the 71% of Americans that disapprove of him, and maybe figure out what's got them so pissed off. Bush, on the other hand, apparently thinks that one thing is to appeal to the paranoid, racist rednecks in the country, of which, there are quite a few.
So. Illegal immigration is the big problem now, I guess, even though fucking no one has been discussing it up until just recently. At least, no one outside the usual crowd of paranoid, racist rednecks that is. It seems that every eight years or so, this becomes a topic of concern and people on both sides of the issue get bent out of shape and start yelling at each other and marching and all the usual horseshit. Everything short of actually sitting down and having a discussion about what we should do, if anything. Well, now our president is counting on this issue to bail him out of trouble and therefore illegal immigration is a threat to our national security, and therefore (queue dramatic music and extra-slick CNN title graphic), Something Must Be Done!
And the plan appears to be to build a fence along our southern border to keep all those greasy wetbacks out. This is one of those times I wish I could go back in time and interview people. I'd like to ask anyone from the Yuan Dynasty how well the Great Wall did in keeping the Mongols out.* Is it just me or is there something just a little less majestic about "The Great Fence Of North America?" So a big fence is what's going to keep all those Mexican assholes from coming up here and taking all those really desirable jobs away from us. They won't be clever enough to dig tunnels, or just use our beaches, nope.
So this is Bush's great idea. Nothing unusual really, he says stupid shit every time he addresses the nation. The real question is why am I so amazed that the Senate has approved this idea? An even better question is: If we're going to do something as drastic as fencing off our country, why did the Senate approve to fence only 500 miles of our southern border? What about the other three quarters of our border? Jesus Christ, these are the people we chose to lead us, aren't they supposed to be a little more effective and intelligent than that?
Pretending for a moment that illegal immigration is really a serious problem and that we need to stop it, why don't we just arrest and jail every U.S. employer who hires anyone not legally allowed to work here? I guarantee you that if the day manager of the local Denny's were to spend six months in prison, that Denny's would never have another illegal alien working the kitchen. I further guarantee you that if we actually did this, illegal immigration would dramatically slow down. That's because people won't come here if there isn't any work. But that's assuming that illegal immigration is a serious problem. And it isn't.
Nor is our open border a threat to national security. Putting up a fence isn't going to keep Al Qaeda out. We're talking about people who fly planes into buildings, I think they'll be able to hop a fence.
I swear to god, this country can't make a good decision to save its life. If we were presented with the choice of getting a blowjob from Halle Berry or getting a blowjob from a rattlesnake, we'd be less than a minute away from needing a goddamn snakebite kit.
*Not very.
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