Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Why is the shutdown still a shutdown?

 

All the major players have already said what they need to say to end it.  Trump wants a wall, but not enough in congress want him to have a wall.  So now trump is saying the wall doesn’t have to be a concrete wall; it could be a steel wall; a steel wall made out of slats.  He used to say he wanted a wall from sea to shining sea.  Now he says that doesn’t have to happen, he just wants more sections of border security to be built.  Now he’s calling it “border security”, at least sometimes, instead of a wall.

 

A border wall made out of steel slats is a fence.  We already have a steel fence!  Sometimes trump calls it a “barrier”.  We already have a barrier!  He’s no longer saying build one solid fence from the Pacific to the Gulf, just build some new sections where they’re needed.  We’re already doing that!  Now, sometimes, instead of repeating his call for a wall, trump is referencing “border security”.  Everybody in congress wants border security!  So what’s the sticking point?  Everything everybody wants, we’re already doing!  Somebody declare victory and free the hostages.

 

Just for the record, we have a lot of border fence here in the Rio Grande Valley and they’re building more.  The government has suspended any EPA studies and approvals and are busy carving a path of disruption right through every State Park and Wildlife Refuge on the border, in spite of lawsuits and protests.  Even if congress and the president agree and reopen the government, Judy and I won’t get what we want, undisturbed natural habitat, but all the government workers, contractors, and allied industries could go back to work, and that certainly would be a good thing.

 

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