I tend to agree mate. Most folks have a choice, they know the dangers but still take the risk. Why? I don't get it? This stuff can kill me, leave me addicted, broke and homeless, but hey lets give it a go? No thanks, worked to hard, got too much too lose. As you say, if you don't want to end up obese, then stop eating that crap.
Wall probably does not work on the border [look at China and the Iron Curtain], as the majority of illegals come in through other routes, some legal and they just overstay. Same here in the UK with stop the boats coming across the Channel, the majority of illegal migration does not come through that route. But like the wall on the US Southern Border, the boats are a visible symbol, so that is why people want to block/stop them. I also think there are a lot powerful people in the US [Rep and Dems] who do not want to stop it, as they are making too much money from illegal workers, paying them less and working them like dogs. Plus [like the UK] they do the work that Amricans/ Brits do not want to do, too many young Brit/Americans want to be TIKTOK or YouTube stars and not do the type of jobs the illegals do. Think of all the industries in the US which would grind to a halt without migrants........farming, fast food, hotels, domestic work, etc. Do not know the answer, but think a wall is a symbol to make people feel better, there should be a wall, but not the whole solution, also spend money on helping the countries where they are coming from, so they do not have to leave. Plus highly punish those Americans and US companies who employ the illigals. Send a few people to prison who employ an illegal gardener or housekeeper, that would stop them doing it, so no work, which cuts a reason for them to come.
The drug dealers as just capitalists supplying a market, bit like the Sacker family and their practises. just illegal, i saw a figure that the US Illigal Drugs market is worth close to $200 billion a year. Thats the reason the drug trade will not be stopped, too much of that money is making its way into the legit economy, no one will stop that drugs cash rolling in. If you want to stop it, try diverting the military into it, not just destroying the crops and cartels, but mass testing for everyone and if you are found to have drugs in your system them off to a 'camp' you go, for treatment and to get clean. Means locking up tens of million, the entertainment industry would grind to a halt, as would wall stereet etc. Have state bordr crossings where you are tested and not allowed into your state if you have drugs in your system. however, the cure is far worse than the status quo, so it will continue. Heard an academic on Radio 4 in the UK, say the drug problem is not a problem in the US as it is what the society is run on, legal or illegal. Americans are living on too much medication and there are many more people hooked on legal drugs than are on illegal drugs.
Of course there is no 100% solution. That doesn't mean that nothing should be done. Walls may not stop everyone, but they would stop many. Of course, if our politicians would enforce the existing laws, that would help. However, the point here being that those who tell us walls don't work are building them to protect themselves in Chicago. Lots of them. So which is it? Do they work or not? I'm also not sure what the Indians have to do with this. The Indians had a policy of massacring and enslaving immigrants and each other. They were only limited in their capacity to do so by a lack of technology and numbers. Otherwise, they would have killed every European immigrant to this country. Not exactly an immigration policy that anyone wants to follow.
Absolutely correct. When you read original accounts of the behavior of the "indigenous" people rather than listening to the revisionist Hollywood movies and woke "historians," they are repleted with examples of barbarism. The most outlandish acts of violence against men, women, and children. Any outsider - whether a European immigrant or member of another tribe - would be tortured and mutilated in the most horrible ways imaginable. This did eventually result in retaliation in kind by Europeans who had access to better weapons and eventually greater numbers to exact revenge. But not unlike the situation in Gaza, when you attack and murder your neighbors, they tend to take offence and there is a reckoning.
Graham, what does that mean in this context?
It's all the more disappointing in the case of Kerr. His father was murdered by Islamic terrorists. You might think that would influence some of his opinions but apparently not. He is just another quasi-celebrity going with the flow of those in his circle. Afraid to do anything other than that which will promote his career.
I lost any respect for him when he danced around questions regarding his own players owning guns after he took such a huge anti-firearm stance.
Great post, even worse, MLB Network now does them in between pitches via a split screen.
Glad I don't watch MLB.
