Drugs, Border Walls, and Reality | Forum

This is a fun fact sheet: 

States Ranked by Republican Party Affiliation and Minimum Wage

[Source: Pew Research Center 2014, Paycor.com 2019]

# Republican Majority 20% +
* Democrat Majority 1-19%
** Democrat Majority 20% +
◇ Exception for small business to pay lower minimum wage

Wyoming 57% #  -  $5.15 (yes, it is legal)
Utah 54% #   - $7.25
South Dakota 53% - $8.65
Alabama 52% - $7.25
North Dakota 50% - $7.25
Idaho 49% - $7.25
Montana 49% - $8.50
Tennessee 48% - $7.25
Nebraska 47% - $9.00 (2)
Arkansas 46% - $9.25 (2)
Kansas 46% - $7.25
Oklahoma 45% - $7.25
Kentucky  44% - $7.25
Mississippi  44% - $7.25
Virginia 43% - $7.25
West Virginia. 43% - $8.75
South Carolina  43% - $7.25
Wisconsin 42% - $7.25
Ohio 42% - $8.55
Indiana 42% - $7.25

------------------------------------------------ Republican Line
North Carolina 41%  *  - $7.25
Missouri 41%  - $8.60
Louisiana 41% *  - $7.25
Colorado 41% * - $11.10
Georgia 41%  - $5.15 (see Wyoming)
Iowa 41%  - $7.25
Arizona 40%  -  $11.00 (1)(2)
Alaska 39%  -  $9.89 (2)
------------------------------------------------- Democrat Line 

Texas 39% *  - $7.25  (3)(4)(7)
Minnesota 39% *◇ - $9.65
Pennsylvania 39% * - $7.25 (7)
Nevada 37% * ◇ - $8.25 (7)
Florida 37% * - $8.46 (7)
New Mexico 37% * - $7.50 (7)
Maine 36% * - $11.00
New Hampshire 35% * - $7.25 (7)
Michigan 34% * -  $9.45
Washington 33% * -  $12.00
Illinois 33% * -  $8.25 (7)
Connecticut 32% * -  $10.10

Oregon 32% * -  $11.25 (5)
Maryland 31% **  - $10.10
Rhode Island 30% *  -  $10.50
New Jersey 30% ** - $8.85
California 30% * ◇  - $12.00
Vermont 29% *  - $10.78
Delaware 29% **  - $9.25 (6)
New York 28% **  - $11.10
Hawaii 28% **  - $10.10
Massachusetts 27% **  - $12.00
District of Columbia 11% **  - $14.00 (5)

(1) Arizona is the only republican majority state currently over $10.00/hour 

(2) The 4 Republican majority states above the exchange rate minimum wage of Tijuana ($8.80 USD)

(3) Texas HB 194 proposes wage increase to $15.00.  It would be the highest in the US.

(4) While Pew notes Texas rebuplican percentages at 39(R) - 40(D) in 2014, Gallup polls at 41(R) - 38(D) in 2017

(5) As of July 1st, 2019

(6) As of October 1st, 2019

(7) The 7 Democrat majority states below the exchange rate minimum wage of Tijuana.

I will sum up the criticism: The problem is not a need for a border wall. That's a fake war like seen with Albania in Wag The Dog. The real issue is working wages are unlivable given rate of inflation. Millions of Mexicans at $8.80/hour make more than millions of Americans at $7.25.

Now, what the fuck is so pleasurable about my editorial here? 

You know what, Fuck it, I will let Ice T riff on this for me.

The border wall panders to an LCD demographic. It is non-problem. A fake solution for a fake problem. To quote our president, "IT'S FAKE NEWS!". It is a 2.5 billion dollar non-applicable solution for a trillion dollar problem.  There would be an initial pause and then the economy would adjust because it always does. 

The problem, IMO, is:

Minimum Wages. 15,100/year is a fucking joke. (7.25 minimum) $21,120/year is less of a joke. (10.50 minimum) $25,344/year IS livable. (12.00 minimum)

It misdirects with smoke and mirrors and fake threats while the audience fails to notice the ticket price went up 35% in the past 5 years.  

I shouldn't care, as I currently earn way more than minimum wage, but that could all change overnight and self employment doesn't have a severance package.  So it is applicable to me and I think its fucked. The control mechanism will be fine with higher wages. All of democracy is an artificial representation of Alpha tribal leaders applied for millions. The mechanism is needed beyond societies of a few hundred. 

Using the above metrics of minimum wage and rent cost; the best place to be a high school dropout are:

1. Pueblo, Colorado

2. Tucson, Arizona

3. Omaha, Nebraska 

4. Bakersfield, California 

5. Fresno, California

This is like the who's who of horrid shithole cities that are all in some barren high or low stinking desert or desolate plain.

But, if you can handle 95 inches of snow #6 and #7  are Rochester and Buffalo, NY respectively.  #8 is Cincinatti, OH

** For comparison the worst Metro Areas Are:

OMFG, an actual fucking answer.

But when you really talk brass tacks to them about what is actually needed at the border, they'll talk about things like manpower. They'll talk about things like more technology — drones and sensors and night vision equipment, things of that sort. Those are the things that make sense to the average border patrolmen.

There are also far better DoD contracts to be had from Napalitano's take.  Even in nepotism/cronyism-land it is more enticing. 

This is a farce to show he is doing something. I also disagree with the "for the children" humanitarian aspect. Another line to get support of the empathetic drones. There have always been migrant children. There has always been dehydration deaths. 

It seems to be a rigid military mindset of an escalating problem. Images of people at the beach by the border, knowing full well La Migra on quads waits 'round the other side, becomes the masses trying to cross undocumented. It is easy to fall into an uncritical opinion when a superior says it.  

Yet, THERE IS LITTLE TO NO emphasis in mainstream media that the move by the administration of Mexican President Andres Obrador (and the ones before him) to give a gigantic boost to the minimum wage was specifically to keep people from needing a grass more green.

Now the problem falls to all those counties the CIA infiltrated in the 70's and used for funding. The OG cartels given life by past covert decisions that enflamed mass curruption. All "shades of cozened indigo" are hypocritical.  The 15th largest economy is not the treat. The fucked ones south of them are.  

Cartels are exempt because they use tunnels. The meth will still all get in. The Nicaraguans won't. Maybe ground penetrating radar is in order for that?

The logistics of the fence is also laugh-worthy. 

Mexicali/Calexico is a lot different than the area between Nogales and Agua Prieta. 

When I was a teenager in Southern Arizona we had what we called "christmas buds". Every December, when the first winter storm rolls through snow levels drop below 2500 feet often. This shrouded the many border mountains enough for all those wonderful back-packers to cross when seeing them was impossible. Motion sensors like at Groomlake would be far more effective.  

IMO the reasons why around the wall control is more effective. 

1. The walls in place are around heavily enforced conurbations and less likely to be an illegal crossing point.  

2. Those same conurbations are all closing the gap in quality of life with respect to each-other, unless you involve yourself with drugs and guns on the southern side.  Still, in border cities in Mexico a full time minimum wage employee makes $18,500/year. USD 

3. For around 10,000 pesos ($536 USD) you can use one of the afforementioned tunnels. Or about 62 hours of work for a Tijuana resident at minimum wage. The incurred risk is buying passage from MS-13.

Finally, as far as working for The DHS. I would never pass a backround check or be able to uphold a mission I consider littered with fallacious solutions. I don't have enough sense of duty left, apart from calling shit out.

There is a belief in the USA that the USA is the best, most righteous country, and blah blah nationalism blah blah superiority to all others.

In reality Eisenhower was right.  He warned of nepotism and coined the phrase "Military Industrial Complex". If Kennedy getting capped in Dallas for going after the Federal Reserve and defense contract for an invented war with communism didn't show The Oligarch; nothing will.  

There is genuine belief, even my former hippie parents hold, that there is no better place in the world.  This is the definition of bullshit. The blackout curtains of Scandanavia have a higher standard of living. Joining Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark are; Switzerland, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Austrailia, New Zealand, Japan, United Kingdom, France, and Belgium.  

And most thank their Value Added Taxes (VATs) for this.  25-40% And they happilly pay it  and still do BETTER than Americans. This instead of acting all put out because they are republican and that is socialism.  And the VATs make it work regardless of population. This is also why our public healthcare IS A FUCKING JOKE COMPARED TO THE REST OF THE WORLD. 

And before anyone says it, Yes I would expat my ass to any one of those countries if I had the means and they approved my VISA. Which isnt always a guarentee, even for Americans. Also, I will never have the means. Then learn a new language and love the tax off the top. Might then laugh at the slaves up their own socially superior asses.  Call it btterness and fuck the "meritocracy", it's one bent towards prayer breakfasts and hermetic shit anyway.  Far less Lutherans in Europe.

Give me my motherfucking one way ticket, Mr Douche

/\ That is also why I could NEVER hold a government job. I piss in their kool-aid.

But looking at a map I have deduced my Shangri La destination of Copenhagan is only a Germany away. 200 miles as the crow flies. As I have to make and sell enough meth to save the money to move.  I do not think I could pull off robbing a post office. 

So theoretical anal sex is not dead.

And I know US News and World Report is not Bezos' Washington Post but...

As of 2019: 

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/quality-of-life-rankings

The rankings are: 

1. Canada 

2. Sweden

3. Denmark

4. Norway

5. Switzerland

6. Finland

7. Austrailia

8. Netherlands

9. New Zealand

10. Germany. 

The Land of Oppurtunity with its poor huddled masses yearning to get out of the hood doesn't rank. Now stop before I show everyone pictures of what a Toronto ghetto looks like.

Translation dumb Fucking Republicans: SOCIALISM WORKS, and there is no too high of a population to pull it off because everyone pays into it. 

Pro tip, don't call it socialism because it isn't. The most successful country I know of is Finland and their level of prosperity comes from the same concept every other successful country's does. The are more or less politically unified, and they have god tier education standards. It doesn't matter what political spectrum they fall under, the true advantage for them and everyone else is a healthy and mentally sound populace.

That being said, they are doomed as well. Islam is a destructive force, and it sounds like the new finnish government wants to let in more muslims. The let in muslim tartars in the 1800s and they weren't exactly nice neighbors. You think they would learn. Europe is officially dead.

So here is what I like about "socialism".

The myth is there are free handouts in a "socialist" society (country with socialized programs).  Those VAT's mean you work and are contributing member of said country.  And from what I have learned MOST have a sense of pride in that high tax rate. And also extremely low unemployment. 

For fun, compare a public emergency room in Stockholm or Helsinki to one in Los Angeles.  I dare eveneryone.

Ok, maybe National Socialism is a better term?  

* And apologies for not keeping consistant with what account is posting. I forget which one is logged in.