If that was how "easy" it was for a legal immigrant, I can not imagine it get any easier for illegal immigrants to cross the border any easier than crossing the famous Check Point Charlie in Berlin, during the cold war.

Besides that dash cross the border, I wonder what percentage of illegal immigrants actually committed crimes after entering into United States. The Statue of Liberty inscribed: 'give me your tired, your poor . . . your wretched refuse . . . , I lift my lamp beside the golden door', but now you are getting people healthier and more athletic than the "wretched refuse" out of those immigrants. Yet, people are asking them do the work and picking on them. It would be interesting to see from an HR point of view, if you get that percentage of workers as productive ones, would you consider that as a hiring success or a failure? Or if the percentage of good vs. bad as just average, do you label them as 'criminals'?

Actually, if an overweight person wants to lose weight, it's simple: stop eating and exercise non-stop. If a country wants to stop legal immigrants it's also easy. Just make a country very poor and make the environment extremely hard for immigrants to live, then the country will cease to have immigration problems.

To stop productivity works, raise the requirement threshold and raise the application fees for immigrants are all on the right track. Pretty soon there would be less and less immigrants. If a country wants to stop illegal immigrants all together, just try to put then all in jail or concentration camps, and immigrants would flee too. Building a fence or a Berlin wall is also somewhat effective, at least in the short term.

'A country that does not attract immigrants' is that something any country wants to strive for? When a country no longer has immigrants wanting to immigrate to, it would soon be like the 9th world on the planet, or a person with only bones 得之易时失之易，失之易时得之难.

There is a belief that overweight problems are largely attributable to an inert mind. There was this irony that Great Wall of China historically had more values in (negative/criticizing) arts and literatures and tourism than national defenses. Sensible Chinese usually believed the Wall was more of a tragedy of the nation and a waste of resources than a real valuable defense work. Every time the wall was built, usually followed by a period of weakness, short-sightedness and deterioration of Dynasties and the defense work was then proven porous and impractical 百世英雄百世梦，万里长城万里空. It is now written in the Chinese national anthem that a real stronger Great Wall is built by the willingness to never succumb to forced slavery, and willingness to sacrifice one's blood and flesh.

Many people in United States have asked: 'Why are there so few fat people in China'? In my opinion, that is because China is still a under developed third world developing country with GDP per capita about only 1/20 that of the United States. It's easy for an average Chinese to lose weight, because a person needs to work 20 times as hard to be as productive as an average US worker theoretically. A country like that does not attract too many immigrants, but would be easier to consume a lot of energy and lose weight.

We all know how hard it is for a heavy man to lose weight or a developed country to welcome immigrants. It is human nature and the Second Law of Thermodynamics that determined a country or a human would always head into the eventual decay and demise. One can only help to do his or her best to slow down the process, but the process is not reversible."

Soon after, David and Bob finished rolling out the new POS to all of the local Burrito House restaurants in Houston area. There was little David could do but to wait for the negotiation between Bud Westwood and Burrito House management for the final acceptance of the new software. Then the unending arguments started between Bud and Burrito House headquarters. The sticking point was the accounting system integration. While the POS worked wonderfully, Burrito House insisted the integration with the existing accounting system in AS/400 was missing. Bud and David insisted since that part of the integration was not written in the original scope of work, the work could not be done for free. But Burrito House insisted that integration work was included in part of the last payment. Usually when a large buyer can not get their way with small vendors, they also start something else by stirring up resistance from bottom up.

It was not too surprising that Burrito House board members procrastinated on making the last payment to Bud, and indirectly to David, because that was just the reality of the contracting software development business. David experienced it before when working with ENS and similar scenario was happening to him again. After software were installed and used, the buyers usually started realizing they needed many more features in the software in order to meet their business operation needs. The software buyers would usually also argue that the software developers were responsible to provide those features in the new system, because the development agreements invariably had some vague clauses to be found, such as: "the installation of the new system should enable the smooth transition from old system without loss of functionality".

On a second look, many of those inability to "do things", were also caused by the requests of Burrito House to prevent people from stealing, by passing or cheating from the old system. But nevertheless, the software buyers would insist that the new systems were not fully developed to specification and hold off on making the payments, while software developers could not fulfill contradicting requests and continued to make demands for collecting payments.

Both software developers and buyers can now squabble to the end of time like Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer in the TV series Seinfeld. If they are willing, they can still do business occasionally, with additional "change of requests". But if they don't want to do business together, such status quo could last forever too. Occasionally, Burrito House would provide hard, solid evidences that its employees dislike the new POS system, because they could no longer do things that they were able to do in the past. But Bud became the one dealing with talking to Burrito House and getting change of requests. To David, it's time for diplomats to talk, and soldiers leave the fields.

He went back home to Vancouver, BC, Canada waiting for his part of the payment coming out of the end of this triangular debts from Bud Westwood, while Bud waited for the payment from Burrito House, so he could pay David. It seemed that business people in the entire world are experiencing the same kind of "triangular debts" problems, because David heard some of his friends in China from back in university days were waiting for those payments of triangular debts too and so did one of his cousins. Globalization was certainly taking shape in many forms and formats in triangular debts. There were really little he could do but wait for buyers of his services making payments as promised.

Luckily, since he received part of the payments for his earlier consulting services, he was able to use that little amount of money to survive while developing new products and customers and pay some developers he hired earlier.