What's It Worth To You?

                                             What's It Worth To You?

     States along the Mexican border have a daunting task. Actually, the US/Mexican border is unique. What we have is a superpower bordering up on a third world country. Except for the cartels Mexico is one broke mother! I don't know what the exchange rate is, or if they even have one, but when I went down there back in my high school years, you couldn't even buy a beer with pesos. 

     Mexico has two classes of people. Rich as hell, and broke as hell. You're either selling the dope or growing the dope. Oh, I can hear the Yankees already. "Now, Wilbur, you're stereotyping the entire country." SIT YOUR BUTTS DOWN! If you are born a poor Mexican you will most likely DIE a poor Mexican. There is a Mexican saying. "If tomorrow crap was deemed to have the value of gold, the next poor child born would be born without a butt hole!" That's why they swim the river and jump the fence so much. And you think Bill Winsor's term Lawless America has some validity? Try Lawless Mexico! The Mexicans wouldn't know what a constitution was if it ran up and peed on their leg. 

     The growth of the cartels is a demonstration of a perfect economic storm. You take a country where a majority of the population is staving to DEATH, and consider this, they mostly eat beans, and you brush it up against a country with lots of money and a coke habit from hell, then you stand back in snake amazement when SOMEBODY south of the border figured out a way to fill that need. And the Mexicans are not an evil people. They're just desperate. Most are family oriented, religious, and hard working, but when you are forced into a situation with no hope it molds your character. I'd like to say that here in Texas, when I see a Mexican man on the street, most of the time he is walking to work. And we all know the Home Depot jokes, but ask yourself, what are they doing hanging around there? They are there hoping to get a day's work. 

     They know their country is screwed up. That's why they fight so hard to get out of there. All that touchy-feely stuff aside, we can't take them to raise. We DO have laws. Our only problem is the wetback in the White House. Mexicans have been jumping the border forever, but no one ever gave them a bus ride to Murrieta! And if you think that disturbs YOU, what do you think a Mexican who crossed legally, worked, studied, memorized history, learned another language, and took YEARS to raise his right hand to become an American thinks? 

     You see, that's the rub right there. A different mentality. That Mexican who does everything right IS an American. He exemplifies the dream of every immigrant who ever stepped onto Ellis Island in the hope of opening a shop on Mulberry Street and raising his family in what he considered to be the greatest country in the world. When you just jump a fence and some guy in Washington rubber stamps you there is no respect. There is no sense of achievement. You didn't earn a single thing. The legal immigrant should hold his head high, and walk among men, but when he sees his countrymen usurping the system he has to ask himself, "Why?"

     Just like I told you last week that we will always have guns, I'm telling you now that we will always have wetbacks. Until Mexico develops an economy strong enough to support it's population there will always be people struggling to get across that border, and Mexico will probably never fix its financial situation. The solution is to let it be known that the people here, both Anglo AND Latin, will not tolerate it. Right now Doc Greene, Johnny Johnson, and a host of others are doing just that. They are lining up at the border and letting it be known that as Texans, we will not be humiliated by the onrush coming up from Mexico. George Rodriguez too. He's there. Several generations of fine Texans behind him, and he is just as adamant about border security as anyone else. 

     We are all tested in various ways. This current crisis is just God's way of asking, "What's it worth to you?" He sees the millions of abortions. He sees the degradation of marriage. He sees the "instant coffee" mentality of this generation, and He has led us into our forty years in the desert, until this generation is consumed. So, what IS it worth to you. Only you can answer that question. Doc and the boys are giving their answer right now. God Bless the Republic of Texas!