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Work Resumes On Virtual Fence With Mexico
Hugh Pickens writes "Work resumed this week on the five-year project to link a chain of tower-mounted sensors and other surveillance equipment over most of the 2,000-mile border with Mexico. The network of cameras, radar, and communications gear is intended to speed deployment of US Border Patrol officers to intercept illegal immigrants, drug smugglers and other violators, yielding greater 'operational control' over the vast and rugged area. A $20M pilot project for the Secure Border Initiative, or 'SBInet,' carried out in the Bush administration, was generally considered a colossal IT failure. Since that time the DHS has given the prime contractor, Boeing, another $600M. The government says it has learned many lessons and made many changes in the program since the previous pilot rushed off-the-shelf equipment into operation without testing. The Obama administration has lowered the cost estimate for the 5-year project by $1.1B, to $6.7B, mainly by deferring work on the most difficult 200 miles of the border, in southwest Texas."
A Latina family lives next door to me. They blast their Mariachi music until 2:00-3:00 am every morning from their car stereo while smoking dope and drinking.
The problem with letting low-IQ (Hispanic IQ approximately 90-95) people in, is that your average as a country goes down. A lot if their average fertility is positive while yours is negative.
Hispanics in America commit a lot of crime, consume a lot of social services, and return relatively little as a fraction of the GDP. Republicans want more Hispanics because big business likes cheap labor. Democrats want more Hispanics because they're going to vote Democrat forever. The average American -- well, he's screwed.
Please read Steve Sailer'sIQ FAQ before replying with something dumb about IQ. I'm not going to respond to non-studied opinions about IQ any more than I'd respond to someone making stupid claims about Thermodynamics without even knowing the definition of Etropy.
That is just politically correct propaganda. The "problem" is not an American problem.
What is the problem? Mexicans hate to live in a society created by their culture. It cannot generate sufficient wealth. Mexicans lack the ability to build a modern society. That is the problem. For political reasons, no one will state this obvious problem.
Building a modern, properous society is not rocket science. Look at Eastern Europe. Within about 1 year of liberation (in about 1990) from Soviet oppression, the Eastern Europeans laid the foundation of a genuine democratic government and a free market. Today, the Eastern Europeans are comfortable, have enough to eat, and have a decent live. Many Eastern Europeans do emigrate to, say, England for better economic opportunities, but they are not doing so out of desperation.
Now look at Mexico. It is blessed with plenty of natural resources: vast regions that are ideal for agriculture, oil, etc. Yet, despite having more than 50 years to build a prosperous society, the Mexicans did not do so. They turned a bounty of natural resources into stinking poverty, infested with drug gangs. No one -- not the Soviet Union of the old days nor any other external power -- imposed or is imposing this rotten society on the Mexicans. The Mexicans themselves created it. They are solely responsible for it.
By stark contrast, Japan has almost no natural resources, but the Japanese people turned their barren rock into the 2nd wealthiest nation in the world. Furthermore, Japan is a liberal Western democracy.
What do the Japanese and the Eastern Europeans have but Mexicans lack?
Washington should explore the possibility of a colonial approach to dealing with Mexico. If the Mexicans lack the ability to build a prosperous society, then we Americans should take effective control of the Mexican government and run Mexico as a de-facto colony of the USA. We in the West know how to build a prosperous society, and we should impose the process of Westernization onto Mexico.
We Americans should not allow desperate illegal aliens to suppress the wages of the American underclass. We have an obligation to help our own citizens first. Americans in the unskilled labor market are American citizens. We have an obligation to help them, not the Mexicans.
I respect the math degree. Had you led with it, I wouldn't have made fun of you for the education degree. Your argument remains deeply ignorant, I'm afraid. I don't normally recommend that people read "The Bell Curve" (because I think they'll get confused). But you should be able to figure out what a Gaussian distribution is, so read it. It's well-researched. Then read Gould's "Mismeasure of Man" critiquing it. If you don't agree with Paul Krugman's opinion of "consistently misleading" Gould by the end, then I'll take back the nice thing I said about your math degree. Or read Nisbett for the critique of "The Bell Curve." He is somewhat balder about the lies though.