Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
\nLast February, my wife and I stayed at an all-inclusive condo on Cozumel.\u00a0 We asked the staff about tipping \u2013 not required but okay if you want to.\u00a0 How much to tip?\u00a0 Well, the groundskeepers, the people who speak no English and have no particular skills, make 70 Pesos per day.\u00a0 The wait staff in the restaurants have some English skills so they make 100 per day.\u00a0 Everyone was super-efficient and friendly because there was a line of applicants for those jobs.\u00a0 At those wages in that economy, they weren\u2019t just jobs \u2013 they were GOOD jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>At the time, one American dollar was 15 pesos.\u00a0 The groundskeeper was making about $5.00 per day; the waitress, $7.00.\u00a0 Not per hour.\u00a0 Per day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>One year later, Trump\u2019s been elected and one American dollar is worth 20 pesos.\u00a0 Yes, I\u2019m glad Trump\u2019s been elected, the strength of the dollar shows the rest of the world is glad, too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Will it make America look like the Promised Land? \u00a0The starting wage for one day of part-time work at McDonalds is an entire week\u2019s pay back home. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Will illegal immigration increase?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cBuild the Fence\u201d is a wonderful short-term solution but eventually there will be 500 million inside the fence and 6,000 million outside it.\u00a0 Can a fence hold off Billions of immigrants? \u00a0What\u2019s the long term solution?<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Obama\u2019s long-term solution seems to have been \u201cif we make America into a Third World country, nobody will bother to come here.\u201d\u00a0 What\u2019s Trump\u2019s long-term solution?<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Not sure Trump was about long term solutions – but I’ve been surprised before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Last February, my wife and I stayed at an all-inclusive condo on Cozumel.\u00a0 We asked the staff about tipping \u2013 not required but okay if you want to.\u00a0 How much to tip?\u00a0 Well, the groundskeepers, the people who speak no English and have no particular skills, make 70 Pesos […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sovereignty","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61444,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61442\/revisions\/61444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}