Open Borders

You can't blame me for not wanting to share my bountiful harvest with everybody on the planet.

There are opposing views on the subject. Apparently, people think that nobody will pick corn if the migrant farmers leave. The truth is, people will do that job right now. You simply have to pay them for doing that job. And herein lies the problem. Why would the employer want to pay more for labor if he can help it? In the short term, it does seem that paying lower wages is good for business.

Wrong!

In Mexico, as in most third world countries, there is no middle class. There are people who don't have a damn thing, and then there is everyone else. The reason this happens is because the wealthy pay the poor next to nothing and the system there allows it. This is an oversimplification, but it is the basic cause of many poverty stricken nations. Here, in the land of the free, where hundreds of thousands of my American brothers gave their lives so I can have a double latte mocha crappucino nutmeg mint oyster flavored espresso every morning, we have standards and practices, labor laws and safety codes. OSHA, even.

We are prosperous because we work together as a capitalist democracy to keep everything running smoothly. We certainly have a lower class, but we also have an upper lower class, a lower middle class, an upper middle class, a lower upper class and so on. These distinctions exist because the disparity in earning power is far less pronounced in our successful, capitalist, regulated economy. Granted, the system occasionally breaks down when business and ethics part ways in the name of greed or expediency, but, for the most part, it keeps on ticking.