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Work together

Why all the hate and mistrust between all the major countries of the world? Every leader in this world should be respected for their actions and diplomacy which brings all the nations of the world together, instead of promoting hatred and mistrust towards one another. Some countries cannot grow certain crops, so they should sell them to any country in the world who would like to import them in turn could export some commodities which other countries are unable to grow or raise.

There is very little common sense being practiced by the leaders of this world today. Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt didn’t squabble or degrade each other before and during World War II, but Stalin and Adolph Hitler sure did. Ask yourself why, and where did it get them. Today there are countries like the United States and China who are bickering over imports and exports.

How much diplomacy is going on between the United States and Mexico? All it will accomplish for we overtaxed retired seniors and the working class of our country will be yet another man made structure such as the Great Wall of China, that can be seen from outer space. This to me is insanity all the way. Over the years this crisis could have been avoided through diplomacy between the United States and Mexico.

At first we Americans gained by allowing an influx of Mexican immigrants into our country who harvested the May crops which had to be harvested every summer and fall.

They worked for much less money than what we Americans would work for. Housing was provided for them on the big island at Jersey Shore, as well as in Nippenose Township, where large fields of potatoes were raised and harvested.

I remember when I was a boy in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s, every fall we would pick up potatoes all day long and we were paid 10 cents a bushel for our trouble.

When this stopped it was because potato picker machines were invented and it shut out the immigrants who did this for a living, only to survive. Now a 30-foot high fence is about to be constructed between our country and Mexico to keep them out of our country. There are more ways to skin a cat than what today’s leaders are aware of.

There are many ways in this world for mankind to improve the false images of how we have been victimized. The past is in the past and the future will be decided on the decisions made by our elected leaders in the future, based on the errors we have made in the past.

Weldon C. Cohick Jr.

Linden

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