New President of Mexico

A Letter to the New President of Mexico
By Jeffrey Hauser

At a time when we are signing legislation to build a 700 mile wall along your northern border with the United States, it’s time to consider other options. We know you are against this “Berlin-like” solution, and so you should be. It’s ridiculous and inappropriate. But so is your present system of government. It’s is the reason your country is losing your countrymen to the United States. We offer opportunities that you don’t in the way of jobs and higher wages. While we consider various obstacles to border-crossers and fines for employers of illegals, isn’t it time you decided to take control of your own internal issues?

You have several salient problems: (a) low wages, (b) low employment, (c) lack of incentives to new businesses wanting to enter Mexico, and (d) nationalization of property. The wage and employment troubles go back decades and are the result of old policies. Yet you share many of the US’s natural resources and should have a higher standard of living much like our northern neighbor, Canada. So what happened here in Mexico?

I equate it to the post-war Depression in the US in the 1930’s when Americans lost faith in the US banks and began withdrawing savings and investments. President Roosevelt realized that the economy could not languish and that the government needed to step up and right the sinking ship. So he established the WPA, or Work Progress Administration, who’s priority was to put Americans back to work. They were hired to build federal highways, bridges, and other governmental projects rather than spend countless hours on bread lines, that served no purpose and just propagated the situation.