From my cousin:
January 16, 2018 TRUMP’S WALL
(this in parentheses for you not to be printed but just need to know if you are able to take a photo I can send online and just circle to get my face) I also can suggest a photo of the Chamizal border conflict but don’t know how to get that to you as you did write me once and ask me to include a photo) Please contact me again at doctormicki@yahoo.com or call 480-231-6285
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BAD MATH AND BAD MOUTH PROP UP TRUMP’S WALL
President Obama said,” a country surrounded by walls only imprisons themselves”.
Senator John McCain said, “we became the most powerful nation in the world by tearing down walls, not building them”.
President Reagan said, “tear down that wall”
In 1963, JFK made a trip to El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico to settle a border dispute that had gone on for almost 100 years and involved “the Chamizal” a piece of land that bordered the Rio Grande. The land was originally on the Mexico side but during a flood the river changed its course as rivers do. This was a political decision where Presidents of both countries and other dignitaries converged and decided to give the land back to Mexico where it belonged. This was not a small piece of property, it was about 600 acres. The Chamizal is now a National Monument. Ostensibly, we then had a President who could work with others even LBJ was involved. I was there, also to view this memorable occasion.
After many visits to Europe, the last one was to Berlin where I was able to speak to those who grew up behind the Communist wall and had no vision of the other side. This became a horrific silence for them as children who had family and friends on the other side. Least we forget the emotional cost of a wall and their loss of friends and relatives. We now have Trump who cares little for individual freedom, who lied about the cost, has no respect for the migration of animals and no concept of the repercussions on human life around the Rio Grande. Using Eminent Domain as a tool for his own prurient needs may not be consequential for this President but is a financial loss for those who live on the border, have land, homes, or ranches and grow produce or raise cattle. No border state wants a wall, not even Texas. If what’s left of Trump’s 19% of follower’s live in Iowa, coal mining states, other mid-western states, New England, etc. the choice should not be up to them as they do not live anywhere that they will lose their sunrise, sunset, open view and ability to see or speak with their Hispanic neighbors (do not forget the Jaguar or other migrating animals).
MOST OF ALL, OUR DACA CHILDREN ARE NOT CHATTEL, NOR CATTLE TO BE EXCHANGED FOR AN INANIMATE OBJECT. However, aside from the Human Aspect, now, let us look at the math. The MIT Brainiest, in 2017, figured the actual cost of the wall which is about twice as much as Trump’s figure of $18 billion, sufficient enough on its own to provide Healthcare for All. MIT began with a figure of 2000 mile wall running about half the border. Trump envisions a wall which already covers 653 miles. Without going any further and just figuring a 1000 mile wall with Trump’s original promise of a height of 50 feet which would require at least 10 feet below ground would in 2015 cost about $38 billion and much higher now and we might want to add a neon sign with Trump’s name, LOL. Of course this contains cost of labor, steel reinforcement, volume of concrete, etc. However, Trump may change his mind and choose a fence, instead. We can figure it will be twice as much as our illterate President thinks. Rivers change course all the time (see Chamizal above). So foolish! Under Obama, border crossing was lowered to 85% protected. Trump said he lowered crossing 80% so that means we have no one coming across. Ostensibly, it will never be 100%. Why has no one asked the proponents of border security, what they mean by “securing the border.” We have never had to put up a wall to keep others in or out! Why now? Freedom has many difficulties, and democracy is not perfect but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in or others out. A wall whether it keeps others out it still keeps you in. Ask your legislators if they would treat their own children the way they are treating the DACA children whom they expected to crawl over the border themselves. Remember who is responsible, it’s not the children, “the sins of the fathers” we all are aware of the meaning. In closing-------
“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to a teen age boy” P.J. O’Rourke I think you get it!
Dr. Micki Kloss
Scottsdale
Dr. Kloss has been in the psychology, mental health field for over 40 years. She has earned 3 graduate degrees in psychology and has been in Private Practice and an adjunct Professor of graduate students in 3 Universities.
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