RE: Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 04/16/18> One last thing before we move on…. AGUA.
This is such a lovely project, and I'm really glad to see such compassion. I am way out there on the issue of immigration (and most issues in general, frankly), in that I support the idea of opening our borders. I think undocumented immigrants are often leaving very harsh situations, and sometimes those situations are the legacy of colonization or the meddling of our own government—how many governments have we intentionally sabotaged in order to gain access to resources? I also think with the wealth and power we have as a nation, it ought to be our responsibility to care for vulnerable people in the world. Because we can. (Some of those vulnerable people were born here, but that's a topic for another time.)
Not the most popular opinion, in the current political climate, but it's what I believe. shrug
I don't know that I am for opening our borders completely but there has to be a way that we can help these people who's situation is so desperate that they risk their lives to come here, knowing if they get caught the chances are they will get sent right back from where they came.
I agree that we may very well be the cause of the situation in their countries by things our government has done to disrupt their normalcy in their home countries.
I don't know how you can say that we as a country have wealth? That is an illusion in my opinion, if we truly were wealthy we would not have over $23 trillion in government debt. What we have is the rest of the world has allowed us to swindle them by using the US dollar as the world reserve currency and making it where all oil transactions are conducted in US dollars, all the while we just keep printing more worthless paper dollars. We do have power though, there isn't a war that we won't find a way to get involved with in some way, shape or form so that we can be the big bully and create the fear that other countries have of us.
If it sounds like I am not happy with our government that is because I am not happy with it. I wish more people would wake up and realize what is really going on here in this country.
Mine may not be the popular opinion either, but is an informed opinion by actually studying history and not taking what I was taught as history as being correct and true. The congressional records of congress has the truth in them, more people just need to read them.
Thanks for stopping in and sharing your observations.
Perhaps the wealth of the nation is illusory, but even the perception that we have wealth lends us power and weight on the global stage.
And I absolutely support reading about the past and the records of our own government, because there are some things that never become common knowledge that ought to, and not knowing the details leaves us woefully disconnected from the decisions made that affect our daily lives, and those of people all over the world. (There's that global power again—it's wielded on our behalf, and we really ought to pay more attention to it.)
I agree , we are never to old to learn, maybe to lazy or to complacent, but never to old. I address a lot of the issues I've discovered in this daily dose column on a pretty regular basis. If only one person has the eyes opened and starts searching it will not have been wasted effort in my opinion, we all need to do are part and being educated about our government is paramount.