Wolfowitz, Media, Mexicans

Wolfowitz

So Paul Wolfowitz is gone from the Presidency of the World Bank. Ha. Another neocon bites the dust. Now I am by no means a liberal (as the second half of this posting might hint) but it amuses me to see buffoons like Rumsfeld, to a great extent Cheney, now Wolfowitz and soon Gonzalez fall by the wayside. Maybe there is such a thing as karma. Although humiliation and derision for the remainder of their earthly existences are hardly commensurate punishments for their crimes against humanity.

It’s funny to see some analysts and self-important journalists discussing Wolfowitz’s dishonorable exit as a political outcome and pointing to his outspokenness as something that alienated his colleagues and doomed him from the get-go since "Wolfowitz, World Bank just didn't fit."

Are you for real?

That pathetic little man has always looked out for his own interests. He lied. He broke rules. He got caught. He’s been punished. Don’t use your pseudo-intellectual, pompous would-be political acumen to gloss over that.

Media
That being said, the image below points to the fact that the taste of the water one drinks depends entirely on the toilet one happens to be drinking out of. I did a Google News search on this fiasco and, lo and behold, the first two hits were

World Bank was Never a Good Fit
And
Wolfowitz, World Bank were a Perfect Match

Meh. Media. Can’t trust a word. In the United States anyway… in Pakistan, the media these days is probably the only source you can trust. The politicians are all pathological.

Mexicans
Anyway, so, for the life of me, I can’t understand this whole amnesty scenario that’s been bouncing around in the corridors of power of the United States these past few years.

Brief Background:
There are millions of Mexicans in the United States illegally (and hundreds more entering every day) working in low income jobs. This is a problem because among many many issues, they can’t be taxed, employers can pay them lower than minimum wage, there is no count of how much they are contributing to or taking away from the economy and crime in their communities cannot be accurately reported or effectively combated. There have been all sorts of proposals on how to deal with this, the one gaining the most traction has been an amnesty plan that will allow all undocumented immigrants to come forward without penalty and begin a program that will lead them to US citizenship in a specified number of years.

Are you for real? This just blows my mind. I have to

• Jump through umpteen hoops (answer questions like "Are you a terrorist?") and wait three months to get a U.S. visa for legitimate purposes,
• Face snotty, blue eyed, blonde immigration officers at every port of entry I go through,
• Struggle with ridiculous amounts of protocol every time I want to fly anywhere

And those pipsqueaks can just run across the California border when it suits them and have citizenship handed to them on a silver platter?

Please. There’s something wrong with the picture here. When it comes to me and my people, America is all about rules and laws and security and you have to obey what we say, blah blah blah, this is our country, after all. Fine. Understandable, even.

But when it comes to Spanish-Speaking Southerners who surreptitiously sneak in and slyly steal your jobs, you’re all about rolling out the welcome mat? The laws of America suspended? George W. (the good one, Washington) must be turning in his grave. What is this? The United States of Hypocrisy?

Put them on buses. Send them back home. Put up that fence. And electrify it.

A country that cannot even respect its own rule of law cannot expect to thrive for long. If you don’t believe me, look at mine.