Facebook Opinion of The Day- 3/22/10

So, I nabbed this little quote from Facebook today, my favorite place to read other people's opinions while quietly smothering my own:

"I always wonder why Border Control is synonymous with Mexico/Mexican's? There just doesn't seem to be such opposition when European's enter."

I'll ignore egregious misuse of the apostrophe and skip to the point. Um, last time I checked, we didn't have millions of undocumented Europeans in this country tying up resources. It might have something to do with the fact that most European countries (at least the western ones, anyway) think the US are ridiculous and just come here to visit Disneyland, NYC and shop with the fab exchange rate. Their economies aren't in shambles nor are they teetering on the edge of a narco state (or in the dismal abyss, depending on your point of view). And maybe it has something to do with the fact that getting across the ATLANTIC OCEAN is slightly more daunting, expensive and necessitates an airplane or ship, unlike getting across a land border (excluding those that spend thousands on whatever they call people that you hire to sneak you across the desert in the middle of the night and then abandon you and leave you for dead). Lastly, I maybe should check an atlas (or my sarcasm, your call) but if I recall, we don't share a border with Europe. And since Canada is happy freezing their butts off up north while owning hockey, using "zed" for "z" and generally making fun of us- yes, border control does tend to encompass our friends to the south.

Until next time, when I discuss in 3 paragraphs or less the concept of "social responsibility", which is another term I saw a lot on FB today . It's a term people like to use so long as the finger of social responsibility is not pointing back at them.