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Edited on Tue Apr-27-10 07:21 AM by Are_grits_groceries
America has the Pronoun Plague, and it is reaching epidemic proportions. It can be fatal to the recovery of the nation from a lot of woes.
I had a mild case of it when I was growing up. I would be going somewhere with my Mama and she would say, "We made a wrong turn." I would look at my hands, and ask her when they were on the wheel. I could have paid attention and stopped her, but I was busy daydreaming or whatever.
The border states do need help. The number of people illegally crossing the border is rising daily. In addition, Mexico is in a state of chaos because of the drug cartels, and that makes the situation much more dangerous. Everybody is affected because those cartels have been behind a lot of illegal drug activity in this country. That is increasing, and those people are truly scary.
States do not have the manpower they once had because their National Guard units are depleted by the 2 wars. In addition economic woes have forced a cut in services. And irony of ironies, the people supporting those wars in Congress and resisting economic change represent a lot of those states. Hello McCain and Kyl!
People are scared, and the stage was set for just such a draconian law to be passed in Arizona. Scared people agree to a lot of things they might not in other situations. The danger in this law goes much further than its inherent racism. People will irrationally think that this will be a major way to stop the problem.
This law can no more help stop the flow of illegal immigrants than the swatting of single mosquitoes would have helped find a cure for malaria. It will waste a lot of manpower and money on detention and deportation while the real issue gets worse. There has to be effective border control and a sensible immigration law.
Everybody has this plague. Jindal made fun of volcano monitoring. Hello E-kull and the ramifications from that. There are volcanoes in the US Bobby. Some people who live in the heartland view the oil spill as a coastal problem.
It is "THEY" who have this problem. "WE" don't. When in fact, if one follows the possible results of these events, we are all affected.
If THEY doesn't change to WE in a lot of areas ASAP, all of us will soon be at the headwaters of Shit Creek. Everybody can end up there.
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