Outsider has noted the degree to which the election of Donald Trump has prompted normally red-blooded citizens of the US to contemplate emigrating for at least the next four and possibly eight years.
Thus he was left in stitches when his young colleague recounted telling Northern Trust’s chief economist that while it was open to him to seek to come to Australia, he should probably not seek to come by boat.
Despite it all being in jest, Outsider’s colleague told the economist that it might not be such a bad deal after all, because coming by boat meant he might get shipped back to his home country at Australian Government expense as part of this country’s recent deal with the US.
Outsider reflects upon our national anthem and the fact that we have “boundless plains to share” but suggests to any US citizens feeling discomforted by the prospect of a Trump administration that if they are coming by boat, it should be one which berths at Circular Quay and is owned and operated by Cunard.
On which note, Outsider reflects on that noble quotation from Emma Lazarus which adorns New York’s Statue of Liberty:
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
Different times. Different attitudes.
