Back to America
After nearly a year out in the field in India I've had to return briefly to the US to keep my residency status intact. Was in the airport buying a brownie while CNN was playing in the background, and in it's breaking NewsFlash, a report came in about this lady who was unable to take care of her high-energy dog and gave it to the pet rescue shelter, which in turn found a new home for the puppy. In the meantime the person who gave away the dog decided she wants it back, but the person in charge at the rescue center had already given it away...so the lady (donor) puts a death threat on this person, and a three-member heated discussion is taking place about this 'pressing issue'... and I shake my head, pay for my brownie, and just as I'm leaving another announcement, "coming up, 11 year old school-children in Pennsylvania to be given free contraceptives/birth control...parents upset about this new legislation"
Somehow it feels like I'm on some other planet...
If that's not enough, have you heard about the 'Great Wall of America' ? Well it certainly isn't going to be as incredibly striking and majestic as the Great Wall of china... but it will certainly be one of the most ecologically destructive and useless constructions of the century. It's already become a reality in various parts along the border, but if this wall happens here along the Rio Grande river in South Texas, not only will it be the nail in the coffin for many already endangered animals like Ocelots, jaguarundis, etc. it will also ensure the death of the Rio Grande - the fluid emblem and lifeline of south Texas and North-eastern Mexico.
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NO BORDER WALL
posted by Unknown @ 8:25 PM
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5 Comments:
At least monkeys haven't started pushing us off of cliffs or out of windows yet.
Hehe, good point :) i suppose news on the other side is quite the shocker as well.. but then over there, that's normal. Elephant runs amok...tramples mahout and ten others, monkeys scare man off cliff, etc. etc. Ummm and just for the record, you don't have any monkeys here, well except for that one at the top, but then I don't want to be offending monkeys by comparing ;)
Hey Sandy, i guess the "Great" idea behind the "Great American Wall" is to spend a little more than $3m a mile of wall to stop illegal immigrants from taking American jobs that will probably get outsourced. Strange for a country made up of offsprings of immigrants...no?
Yep, it's certainly the most futile use of what will amount to Billions of dollars! I knew I should've been into 'construction'. And the irony of it all is that most of the construction workers these construction companies hire will most likely be illegal immigrants! Most of these people who enter here aren't taking over the American job market, they come here with hopes of finding jobs as cheap labour, jobs the americans don't want anyways. On the contrary they rely on this cheap work force all over the United states, from people farming fields in Kansas,picking oranges in Florida, to maids in hotels, to construction workers everywhere...
They'll have to build a wall on the internet if they really want to keep the american job market for the american population. Funnily enough I heard of some Indian company outsourcing its job to the US recently....
Yup...rite on both counts...
You know some large financial service assignments have been outsourced to Mexico from India as well!! But this is digression...
Do they intend to build along the Rio Grande too? Help me understand this..would the wall affect marine life in the river other than the migratory mammals a great deal as well..??
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