Immigration - An Open Letter to President Fox of Mexico

Dear President Fox:

What draws illegal immigrants to this country are jobs and money and opportunity. This is the real issue that needs to be addressed. Fortunately, more and more governmental and corporate leaders are grasping this fundamental fact. Too much opportunity exists in this country. We have made too much money in our working lives for our own good.

Corporations like Walmart, General Motors, the entire Information Technology industry, and years ago the entire manufacturing industry, i.e. the Rust Belt industrial complex, and more and more multinational corporations have been downsizing their work forces (with the exception of Walmart which has taken a more proactive approach by hiring more and more low paid employees, eliminating small business left and right, and purchasing more and more goods made by even more underpaid workers in third world countries which leads to even fewer American jobs). Walmart is the real hero. Real income for workers in these and most other industries have gone down. The number of Unionized workers making decent living wages are at their lowest historical levels. Across the board, workers real incomes are in a downward spiral thanks to the genius and long-term thinking of these corporations. Only lower incomes for working Americans will solve the problem of those seeking greater wealth in America.

Governmental leaders are also working toward a solution. Ronald Reagan fired all those well-paid air traffic controllers and replaced them with lower paid employees. Thank God for those "Right to Work" for less states that have led the way to solving the Illegal Immigration problem. I am proud to say that Nebraska ranks in the lower third in the United States of per capita income for its citizens. Unionized Labor only raises the standards of living of American workers -how counterproductive is that? And thank God that the "Minimum Wage" has fallen in real purchasing power for decades. Farsighted Legislators have been in front on this issue from the get go. Certainly Nebraska can do better than 35th.

George W. Bush’s relentless shifting the tax burden to the lower middle class will only help with this income imbalance with Mexico. If only he could have moved more quickly. Time after time, his attempts to give the working class’s money to the wealthiest in the nation have been thwarted by the greed and avarice, the mistaken "upwardly mobile" thinking, that had crept into the nation ethos of the 1950’s, 1960’s, and even into the 1970’s. Thank God the tide turned in the 1980’s, only to be thwarted in the 1990’s by the actual rise in incomes overseen by the President Clinton. Any progress made prior to those years was quickly stopped by George W. Bush, and we should thank him for that. Our nation debt will soon be 10 trillion dollars --"Thank you Mr. President." And thank God for the repeal of the Death Tax. Even the wealthiest of the wealthiest of our dead are contributing to this battle against illegal immigration.

President Vincente Fox Quesada of Mexico be comforted by the fact that America is doing its best to lower the incomes of its citizens in as many ways as Corporations and Governments can imagine. Just be patient and give us a little more time. If the current trends continue, In just a few more years, Americans will be climbing that fence to get into Mexico!

Sincerely Yours,
As I go off the Deep End,
Bud Cassiday