Spinning the Caravan

Old Dog's latest link raises some interesting questions about the Caravan.  As I have suspected from the beginning, our politicians, both left and right, seem more interested in making political hay out of this problem than they are about solving it.  The fact that the midterm election is now history doesn't seem to have changed their tactics either, as they are already focused on the next election.  I have long believed that one of the bugs in our system is that it seems to take more energy to get elected than it does to actually do the job.  Of course they can't do the job if they don't get elected, so I don't know what the answer is to that one.

I don't know what's more dangerous, an unruly mob or a disciplined army.  Either way, they seem determined to get their own piece of the American pie.  The same could be said of our own ancestors but, in those days, the pie kept getting bigger, while now it's a matter of cutting the same pie into smaller and smaller pieces.  If they keep doing that, it doesn't take a mathematical genius to predict that we are going to run out of pie sooner or later.  In one of the previous articles, it said that Mexico would like the Caravan people to settle in Mexico because they have a bit of a labor shortage there.  Some years ago, American companies built a whole bunch of factories along the Mexican side of the border so that Mexican workers wouldn't have to commute back and forth.  Now they are finding it difficult to fill all those jobs because they don't pay enough.  I suppose they could just increase the wage scale, but that would defeat the whole purpose of building those factories in the first place.

In the last link that I posted, it said that about a thousand Caravan people have already crossed the border illegally.  It also said that about a thousand of them have been apprehended by Border Patrol.  It wasn't made clear if those are the same thousand or two different thousands.  If its the same thousand, it could be said that the Border Patrol is doing a fine job but, it it's two different thousands, it means that our guys are only catching half of the illegal crossers.

I have said before that I wouldn't be against helping the Caravan people if there weren't so many of them.  They need to start using birth control or something.  Way back in the 50s, we were all warned that the current global population growth was not sustainable.  Either we needed to bring it under control or Mother Nature was going to do it for us, and it would not be pretty.  Since then, the Europeans and North Americans have done their part, but the rest of the world keeps cranking out babies like there's no tomorrow.  One of the biggest reasons for the much maligned gap between the rich and the poor is that the people who can least afford children are having the most of them.  I can think of a couple of answers to that one, but people would just accuse me of genocide, so I'm not even going to bring them up.  Maybe it's best to let Mother Nature handle it after all, since she doesn't have to run for re-election.