Micro vs Macro

After Biden Predicted Chaos at the Border, a Quieter Than Expected Weekend

The days after pandemic-era immigration restrictions were lifted showed the ability of federal authorities, local governments and private nonprofits to temporarily triage the situation at the border.

This is where the press lacking diversity matters:

NO body thinks that by putting down "the surge" for a few days, weeks even, that the problem is going away.  What's that about people in DC burying their heads in the sands, and telling us they do not see what is happening, and trying to re-focus our country on the wrong issues, like... grown people's private health issues.

No, the numbers of people amassed on our Southern border may not have stormed the gates in the past days, so to speak... but we all know what is coming...

When the coyotes say, "Go...", the people will come.

It's the coyotes and the employers looking to make money -- there are simply no acceptable servants left for our professional class of Americans who will work for the servant-class wages and "benefits" package plan the wealthy want to offer...

Bring in the peasants.  We don't have decent housing (for them or our own) and without basic English skills,  they will be targets to be ripped off.  (What bothered me most working at Walgreens?  The way the prices advertised on our shelves were often for our "members".  Meaning you have to know to join the club, and then give the basic personal information to access it, or else you are not getting those "discounted" prices where you have to read the small print on tbe shelves to understand those are not the prices for you... I tried to sign up as many as I could, and explain our pricing scheme so they weren't paying more than others, but oh, the barriers.  Time. Trust. Communication...)

The richies do not see this.

Unless somebody does a Pulitzer-worthy expose of minors working, they don't understand.  Because they were raised with money, they think everybody just chooses and spends.  There's really no "making money" -- from the bottom -- thought out...

So while the wealthy domesticated men play at "protecting our children!" -- the wealthy white man making bread off that writing gig, many who are new TradCatholics* -- nobody much coughs when the "imported worker" children are sized up for their physical potentials as workers...

So please, spare me the "Biden fixed it on the border. Pandemic ended, policy ended and hey... look, we held the numbers down for a day or two..."

That's no fix.  Can I make a comparable?

That's like living in an old farmhouse with bad pipes inside.  That's the reason people buy new homes.  What in there -- what are the "guts" of a building?

To really "renovate" and make a home livable for people, you have to get in there and gut what needs fixing or upgrading.  It's a big job, hard work, but only gets harder with time.  It should be priority to take care of problems...

When the roof starts leaking, you kind of can't ignore it anymore... but people do.

Late in her life, Ruth had little cans around her kitchen.  Norm was stubborn and would not admit the "great" price he got on a new roof job from workers wandering the neighborhood that summer was not worth it.  There were problems underneath...

Eventually, he admitted as much, called in help, and paid to have the problem fixed.

I can only imagine that is what our wealthy "leadership class" has in mind.  They want their service workers, dammit!  They can't fix meals at home.  Or wash a load or two daily.  Can't raise their own children without help, nor care for their own elder kin...

If we don't import foreign forkers with no citizenship protections... you mean Americans will have to this work themselves, with no time and "extras" for the luxuries they've come to accept affordable prices?  No eating out everyday unless you pay the kitchen living wage?  No fancy glam job out of the home that you are devoting only half your working time to because... Family! ;-)

What if there simply were no peasants to bring in ar bottom-rung ranges, and our wealthy had to pay for the assiimilation and housing factors for the workers needed for their families?  What if we hadn't fussed so much over the "working" mothers -- some of them proud peasants with such a strong work ethic (to do the things She wants...) and asked them instead to show us a photo not of spoiled children of privilege but of the paid caregivers (underpaid -- can we be honest?) doing the work who let you frolic with your grandchildren and flit amongst the tulips for the day?

That's what is happening in America today.

The wealthy need workers and the rest of the country is subsidizing their care.  Same as it ever was.  Don't be surprised by the "surge" when it comes because you know what?  It's already here.

Beware the men who want to break the social fabric and tell us we do not have enough to care for the costs of our elderly, disabled or Americans in need because we spent it all on foreign wars, rich-man's luxuries, and making sure our leaders at the top never ever have to pay their own way.  We're a country of Hunter Bidens... so many of em riding off their parents' "success".

Life is for the living. What you made and created and did in your time here.  When you pay others to do your living for you, the dirty parts, you need to open that wallet or purse a little wider.  Because we see the real caregivers, and we know who is doing the work.

I bet your children know too.

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* (who have taken over the womens spaces in the home and the communities and in publicly bleating/legislating the appropriate child-raising standards too now because ... men are leaders (?)_