I think the greatest wall ever built was built by accident…… but I’ll get back to that particular wall in a paragraph or two.
Not so long ago in our history we bragged to the world about how we forced the removal of the famous Berlin Wall in order to once again unite families in defiance of our communist foes. We now boast the construction of a similar wall on our own border .
This wall… our wall …. that we’ve been convinced is so very necessary to protect us all from the invading hordes… is different . It is actually more a monument to someone than a wall of security as after Billions of dollars before completion it is already scaled frequently in both directions. Only thing truly stopped by it is the natural movement of wild life .
Back at its beginning no one complained more than I about the NAFTA . It would be a drain on our manufacturing and our jobs was my lament … and correct I was. But stock holders were pleased until the inevitable ….crash.
We’ve recently heard a great deal of the greatest negotiations “we’ve ever seen” and that would be our latest renegotiation’s of NAFTA. What came from this was that most everything stayed the same except that American companies who took their factories to Mexico would now be forced to raise their wages paid in Mexico. And they did as it was still impossible to lure American workers .
Mexicans are now earning $13.00 an hour instead of $ 4.00 to build my new Air Conditioner and Ford parts in Mexico . At that wage they have no desire to cross my border and such is the greatest wall ever built. If we had thought of this sooner we might have saved a lot of money….. and wild deer could still visit family in Mexico .
