Posted on 11/04/2010 6:24:12 PM PDT by Kaslin
Border: As President Obama tours India in the style of an Ottoman sultan, the gates of his own nation remain under siege. Five more Americans were killed in Mexico this week, with little interest from Washington.
How is it the White House can scare up $200 million a day for a presidential visit to India for a pasha-like caravan of 3,000 people, 34 battleships, hundreds of helicopters and loaded hotels for 10 days of peacock diplomacy but deliver few reinforcements to the battle zone our own border has become?
That's the sad reality as one considers the extravagant costs of President Obama's 10-day trip to India and other Asian countries while the resources committed to securing our border and helping our desperately struggling neighbor, Mexico, go wanting.
Wednesday, Mexican cartels murdered another American, Eder Diaz, 23, a University of Texas-El Paso student visiting his family in Juarez. His friend Manuel Acosta, 25, whose citizenship is not known yet, was also killed. Diaz's death made him the fifth American killed in Mexico this week. The State Department says 92 Americans were killed in Mexico from June 2009 to June 2010.
Diaz won't be the last, because in reality, families and businesses are intimately entwined across our southern Border. But nearly 100 dead Americans is unacceptable. Were such numbers to occur in Iraq, the anti-war left would protest. The White House offers only silence. There won't be a $2 billion presidential visit to the frontier where the killings are happening anytime soon.
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Illegal Immigration and the Border were not even on the radar for this election? Tancredo? Dead meat.
And that is just it...the unions have had so many demands that it is now impossible to manufacture goods in this country that people can afford so sure, companies go off shore to manufacture goods needed here at a cost that is reasonable for them and that patrons here can pay.
I wonder how Americans would like to pay 100.00 for a hammer made in the USA? ( that is about what it costs in Iceland)..an ordinary household hammer?
But all the yahoos that complain about this very thing are some of the people who vote in democrats and others who would go along to give the unions every demand they have and then wonder why we are going broke.
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