Gonna Get M'self Into Hot Water Yet

Although this post probably isn't going to do that LOL !!

It's gonna be a short one, relatively speaking.

There's a lot of rhetoric flying around every which way from Tuesday just lately, even more than usual it seems.

A hefty hunk of it seems to revolve around people demanding justification for building barriers along our southern border at vulnerable locations.

My 'hot water question' is the reverse.

I would like to hear someone's justification for NOT building it.

Don't need it?

So?

[Some folks think we need it - surely you aren't dismissing their needs as worthless? Surely not.]

Can't afford it?

Really?

[We can afford to spend almost three times the requested funds to build houses in AFGHANISTAN! Don't give me that 'we can't afford it' baloney.]

Won't work?

So?

[Nothing works 100 percent effectively 100 percent of the time. Making a difference is a good goal.]

They'll find other ways?

So?

[They'll find at least one of their ways a bit more difficult.]

What.

Ever.

None of those 'arguments' are worth a hill of beans.

What is worth a hill of beans is that a significant percentage of the population of the United States of America just has a hankering to have barriers along our southern border.

What is the big deal about denying them that?

Is it going to hurt anybody for those barriers to be there?

No.

Nobody is required to justify anything to anybody when it comes to wanting barriers at our southern border - or along our northern one when it comes to that.

If you can justify to my why you DON'T want it, please feel free to have at trying.

My point here is that it is ENOUGH 'Justification', all the 'justification' anybody needs, that a really big proportion of Americans WANTS IT.

So what if you or I or anyone else doesn't? It's not gonna do us any harm for it to be there, is it?

No.

Frankly, I'd consider it money better spent to make a whole bunch of my fellow Americans happy than to build houses in Afghanistan, especially when it's no skin off my nose anyway.

If it helps with security, that's a bonus.

It would help ease people's minds without affecting anyone who's mind hasn't been worried - big gain, no loss on that count alone.

Those barriers would just be a-settin' there not doin' harm to a single solitary soul in this world.

So what the heck. They're steel, for cryin' out loud. If the time ever comes we need some steel should we run out or some such thing, there's a ready supply stockpiled right there. Comes to that, it would benefit our forges.

Just sayin'.

Unless somebody can prove to me that they are going to be personally harmed somehow by having barriers in a place they're unlikely to ever even get close to, I say what the heck.

Build 'em and be done with it.