Anna's Philosophy

Is he a good man? How am I supposed to know? I don’t know the man. Is he a good president? Never in all of my life, that where I paid any attention to politics and what the government does, never have I seen a president accomplish so much in so little time. Always in the past, it took months, if not years, to see any accomplishments. This country was, as I saw it, a leviathan ship, that took eons to make a slight alteration to its course. I had come to accept that distinction. After all, this is a very large country compared to all the other countries on this world. Suddenly, that isn’t so. In mere months, Trump has managed to convince companies to build here again, or return, as the case may be. He’s managed (somehow) to convince one of our most dangerous dictators to settle down and behave himself; I know I was getting tired of him rattling his sabers all over the place. Best of all, he’s cut taxes, which put more money back in our pockets. And now, most recently, he’s vowed to protect our borders, with force if necessary. I’m all for that. You can’t have open borders if it costs residents both money and safety. We have enough criminals; we don’t need any more. And handing them all welfare of any and all forms costs us LOTS of money. I mean really, NOTHING is free. SOMEONE pays for it, and we have enough people in this country who actually need it.

Now this caravan that is trying to breach our border in force is the latest topic. I had a conversation with an FB friend last night. She was insisting that these people were here to escape the dangers of their home. I think, safety, for them, was much closer to home. They’re not interested in safety, though I’m sure it is on their list. As soon as they crossed out of their country (using force to do that too) they were safe. They were even safer after like a hundred miles. What they never did is stop to settle down and carve a new home for themselves. What they did do is accept the handouts of food and water, and probably new clothes (which came from somewhere, paid for by someone) and continued their march. Once force and threat has been so richly rewarded, why not continue? Of course, their goal had always been the US. I mean, we hand this stuff out all the time, right? Just ask any healthy young woman with ten kids. Everything is free, even their TV and phone.

Now if they revamped all this stuff, making it concrete that only US citizens could have access to all the government handouts, open borders would be much less expensive. Need I say that this also goes for voting (I wish they could stop the dead from voting too)?

That leaves only safety. So tell me, why do you lock your doors at night? Can you not see that locking our borders is the very same concept? Every high end hotel has a doorman (or am I being outdated?). Every gated community has at the very least a security code to punch in at a gate (or am I wrong there too? I honestly don’t know). It’s all the same. People stand at our borders to check to make sure people coming in have a right to, or to take their names and whatever other identification in order to make sure their visit is just that, a visit, not to vanish into the shadows and take up residence. They’re also there to make sure those who’ve been deported STAY deported. These people can’t do their job efficiently if there are no walls. If anyone can just walk across the border, only those coming here legally will cross through these points where our gate guards are located. The rest have something to hide.

What could they possibly have to hide? How hungry they are? How poor they are? No. They are hiding how much drugs they’re hauling with them. They’re hiding any other nefarious purpose they have in mind. They are hiding who they are. And if they have these things to hide, we don’t want anything to do with them.

Enough of a rant. Get a grip, people. Reality is really rather logical.