Monday, January 15, 2018

Reality vs hysteria

The hysteria over Trumpie boy's blunt obscenity pointing out people in poor countries continue to see America as a place of hope, is destroying DACA.

In other words, the Democrats prefer to play the politics of hatred instead of the art of the deal. Duh.

Instead of pointing out that our ancestors came from similar circumstances, including Trumpieboy's mom, and that the reason immigrants find work is that they are willing to work.

The problem: when they are illegal, their illegal status makes them vulnerable to being exploited by their employers, and so they work for low wages often without benefits.

So yes, a wall is needed, and control of illegal immigration is the first step.

And no one is going to throw out a couple million people already in the USA: didn't anyone bother to read "the art of the deal"?

...and stop acting as if deporting those guilty of felonies is wrong. Every time you do this, you get ordinary people who play by the rules rolling up their eyes, agreeing with you in the opinion polls because they fear ostracism, but voting differently when they are in the polling booth that counts.

so one can see how a compromise could be reached here.

But no, instead of discussing reality, the Democrats and the MSM prefer to get the vapors and faint like a Victorian lady.

Reality check:

The up and coming construction industry for new housing will need a lot of people wanting to do "dirty jobs": and if the effete yuppies with degrees in Art History or gender studies don't want to get their hands dirty, well, a lot of immigrants will do it for them.

and a lot of the despair leading to the drug problem among proud workers who can't find jobs will decrease too... a lot of these guys (and gals) will promptly sober up and get a job, if they aren't physically addicted, so expect the Overdose deaths from Chinese fentanyl via Mexico to go down in the future.

Instead, the media is on the "legalize marijuana" bandwagon. Uh, long halflife will result in a lot of accidents and shoddy work, but again no one is discussing this problem, nor the problem that this is a gateway drug into using something stronger...

FYI: The problem of economic migrants is not an American or even a European one. We see it here in Asia: both as people migrating here for jobs and our people migrating to work elsewhere.

The middle east is run by such willing migrant workers, often Pakistani, Indian, Indonesian, Filipino, and in more recent years, African. You know: from countries that are hellholes, and where family members are willing to migrate and work hard, dirty jobs to pull their families out of poverty.

Our family is in half a dozen countries, either as legal immigrants (US, Australia, Canada, UK, Italy) or as temporary workers (Saudi, Kuwait).

MigrantRights blog has lots of stories from Asian and the Middle East about illegal migrants: about how they are often exploited, or how they found jobs and overstayed their visas illegally, or how countries are finding them and sending them home.

One way to discourage this is to make immigration safe and legal, and then enforce the laws.

but hysteria to get votes and to feel self righteous is more satisfying than actually working something out.

a pox on both their houses.

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Speaking of exploiting the poor: I ran across this review of a new film about sex trafficking:


I stumbled into this film knowing nothing about it upfront, but bought a ticket because it was playing "next" when I walked up to the theater. I was only able to sit through the first half of the film before I walked out. I could not stomach the sick nature that some of the characters did a great job of portraying. It's hard to imagine that people can be so sickening in real life, but apparently that is what this movie is based on. I lost sleep over it last night after watching it.

why, yes. Reality sucks.

cops know these things, as do we docs who work in the ****holes of America... but too often films and TV shows make the exploiters the heroes and the girls as happy hookers. So why is anyone surprised that these Putanginas in Hollywood etc. actually don't think it's wrong to exploit actresses (or boys)?

Ditto for how Hollywood portrays the drug world, as if drugs were fun and didn't destroy lives. In the USA, a million kids are in foster care or are cared for by their relatives because mom is too high to care for them...


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