Publisher Bob Sweeney
By Robert Sweeney
Maybe we should just take the walls down
Went south for a few days to enjoy the Mexican sunshine. While Americans travel to Mexico resorts for a little mid-winter sunshine, many of the Hispanics still want to come to the United States – legally or illegally.
Why, there are many jobs in Cabo San Lucas where we were last week, but the pay is about $4 a day for many routine laborers. There are many jobs in Mexico; skilled laborers are building new homes and condo units. They can hone their skills for small wages, but make far more in U.S. labor markets.
New car dealerships dot the coastline with a new Cadillac dealership joining Mercedes-Benz, which is adjacent to Volkswagen and Toyota.
In Cabo, we heard that the police chief was killed in recent months and that the resort community has attempted to keep drugs away from the southern Baja coastline. Unfortunately, where there is tourist money, drugs seem to find a way of appearing.
Americans continue to purchase these killers and fuel the competition and drug cartels to kill one another for the drug demand north of the border.
Someday it would make sense to take away the borders between Canada, Mexico and the United States and be similar to the European Euro zone. The dollar would be the legal currency and residents of the three nations could travel freely within the three.
Mexican workers could come to the United States and Canada where they would be welcome. Developers could go to Mexico and build more resorts and homes for people to escape the bitter winters to the north.
Health benefits would be equalized among the three countries and taxes and benefits would be the same for workers in all countries. American taxpayers wouldn’t foot the bill for illegal immigrants anymore and everyone in all three countries would pay taxes and have a multi-country Social Security card.
We would then defend our shores, not our land borders, and save billions of dollars
for each country. Many services could be combined, including national defense, medical services and law enforcement.
I know it’s a far-out idea, but it seems rather silly to be spending billions on keeping people out of each country with a system that doesn’t work very well. There are an estimated 12 million Mexican citizens in the United States and some estimates range up to 25 million in all of the states. Bottom line, no one really knows the number.
Establishing a working USCANMEX business and cultural relationship might be a huge business boon and oil pipelines could run to Mexico or from Mexico to Los Angeles. Canada’s natural resources would be open to further U.S. developments.
We maintain our national independence but we put the billions in guarding ourselves into educating students, caring for seniors and creating a strong job market within the three-nation coalition.
Having a week in the hot Mexican sunshine makes one wonder about all of the border nonsense when Americans, Canadians and Mexicans can be such good friends.
Something to think about, we need to think about the future and where new jobs will actually come from and how to create a strong democracy for everyone.
