Dave’s Wagon

Perhaps someday people will flock from around the world to see America’s Great Wall. Last Thursday, President Bush signed a bill to build 700 miles of additional fencing along the U.S. side of America’s Mexican border.

Mexican President-to-be Felipe Calderon responded:

“The decision made by Congress and the U.S. government is deplorable. Humanity committed a grave error by constructing the Berlin wall and I am sure that today the United States is committing a grave error in constructing a wall along our northern border.”

Worth noting is that the Berlin wall was built to keep people in, whereas America’s wall is designed to keep people out. It stands to reason then, that if America’s wall is comparable to Berlin’s, then Mexico is comparable to Soviet East Germany, a repressive puppet state bound for economic and political collapse.

And while we’re making historical comparisons, it would seem, looking back, that Mexico’s only hope is to receive the kind of economic “jump-start” that the more fortunate nations of the world have received in the past (being bombed with atomic weapons twice, being the main theater for the most destructive war in human history, having your capital destroyed by an invasion from the north, losing a civil war and being corned on a small island, suffering an invasion with one of the highest civilian casualty counts ever and then enacting a massively disastrous economical policy, etc.).

Yes, Mexico has had nothing but bad luck in this regard. I sincerely hope they can turn their prospects around.

This entry was posted on Friday, October 27th, 2006 @ 11:30 pm on the category News, USA, Commerce. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Perhaps someday people will flock from around the world to see America’s Great Wall. Last Thursday, President Bush signed a bill to build 700 miles of additional fencing along the U.S. side of America’s Mexican border.

Mexican President-to-be Felipe Calderon responded:

“The decision made by Congress and the U.S. government is deplorable. Humanity committed a grave error by constructing the Berlin wall and I am sure that today the United States is committing a grave error in constructing a wall along our northern border.”

Worth noting is that the Berlin wall was built to keep people in, whereas America’s wall is designed to keep people out. It stands to reason then, that if America’s wall is comparable to Berlin’s, then Mexico is comparable to Soviet East Germany, a repressive puppet state bound for economic and political collapse.

And while we’re making historical comparisons, it would seem, looking back, that Mexico’s only hope is to receive the kind of economic “jump-start” that the more fortunate nations of the world have received in the past (being bombed with atomic weapons twice, being the main theater for the most destructive war in human history, having your capital destroyed by an invasion from the north, losing a civil war and being corned on a small island, suffering an invasion with one of the highest civilian casualty counts ever and then enacting a massively disastrous economical policy, etc.).

Yes, Mexico has had nothing but bad luck in this regard. I sincerely hope they can turn their prospects around.

This entry was posted on Friday, October 27th, 2006 @ 11:30 pm on the category News, USA, Commerce. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.