Every President has the right to open and close the borders,  in late June the administration’s zero policy on immigrants and their children was all over the press. Whether you agree with the policy or not, it is important to examine the operations of it. The administration set up a  policy which then needs to be implemented. However the policy was set up with a variety of variables which means it was set up to fail. There could be a practical reason to take children from their parents, but if a child has travelled with their parent for thousands of miles, unless they are very unhealthy it stretches the mind why do it? If a child is taken from the parent at the border, why would an agency send the child from Texas to New York City? Along the way was there no other place that residents spoke Spanish? If you examine the population of the south-west, Spanish is the second language of most people because people move back and forth across the border to work, to shop, and to live. Another issue is where are the children and can they be reunited with the parents? It is hard to understand with the amount of surveillance that is possible on individuals, nobody really has an accurate list. (Perhaps all the children should have been given cellphones).  Is this by design or incompetence? Over the next month, by the time this is read. more blunders on the implementation will be heard and spoken about in the media.

Linking to dividend paying stocks, one of the reasons you want to buy the stocks is the company’s know how to implement their strategies or you are paying for their execution of policies. The companies are more correct than wrong, although many avenues have been travelled. The companies implement what the customers will buy and the customers like what they see for a variety of reasons. In the above case of border families, the agencies responsible did not implement and made a mess a crisis. If the companies you invest in implemented as badly as the above example it would be prudent to find better alternatives.

There are more questions than answers, till the next time – to raising questions.