An Open Letter to Marco Rubio

I have heard you say that illegal immigrants have de facto amnesty now and something should be done. I have also heard you defend your immigration bill by saying it is not amnesty because you make illegal immigrants jump through many hoops on the path to citizenship.

Let me tell you what Schumer, Menendez, and other Democrats you’re ganging up with are not telling you.

• The illegal immigrants (illegals for short) already here will not bother jumping through the hoops you have set up for them if it is as hard as you say because, as you so often point out, they already have de facto amnesty. If this bill becomes law, it will only attract new low skilled workers to flood into America.
• If the illegals already in the country do not apply for work permits and remain here illegally, they will not be deported. If we don’t deport them now because of all the bleeding heart liberal reasons the Democrats put forth, no one will have the guts to deport them in the future just because of a new law. The Dems know this, you are acting clueless.
• Once illegals are working here legally, unions will swoop in and unionize them. Schumer knows they will all become reliable, dues-paying Democrats. He’s thinking ahead. You’re not.
• All the tough border enforcement requirements and other measures you put in to make conservatives happy will simply be ignored and not executed by the President. He will enforce all the carrots and none of the sticks as he has already demonstrated in the past.

You are being taken advantage of like a little, naive, school boy. The fact that the likes of Schumer, Menendez, and I’ll throw in McCain, support this should tell you all you need to know.

Get out of this mess while you still can. You’re embarrassing yourself.

10 Steps to Get Yourself Reelected President if You Are a Democrat

1. Garner a fawning press.
2. Promise to give away a bunch of “free” stuff.
3. Use the full power of Executive Branch to intimidate and silence your opposition.
4. Ensure no voter ID laws are in place prior to the election.
5. Persuade Democratic Governors to establish early voting to maximize chances of voter fraud in your favor.
6. Do everything possible to ensure mail-in ballots from military personnel are not received in time or counted.
7. Use any data base at your disposal to identify likely Democratic voters (such as the NSA Prism data base).
8. Use federally-funded groups such as ACORN and AmeriCorps to get those people registered to vote, and to the polls. Bribe potential voters with booze, cigarettes, or money if necessary.
9. Target these efforts in the big cities of major swing states (a win in a big city can swing the whole state). Remove Republican poll watchers from polls if possible as was done in Philadelphia. (Romney got zero votes in 52 districts in Philadelphia.)
10. Send lawyers to key areas to sue if steps one through nine are unsuccessful.

Easy-pizy.

Made in America

The Europeans who first came to America were highly motivated people, willing to risk their lives in search of liberty and opportunity. They had to be physically strong to endure the many travails associated with their journey.

Through the years other immigrants came to America. They had a drive that prompted them to uproot themselves and their families for the opportunities America offered for hard-working people from around the world.

Getting here was only part of the story. Succeeding here tested their mettle. It required them to sacrifice and work hard. I believe the “raw material” they brought to America was forged here into the people who made America the greatest country in the world. In essence, they were “made in America”.

Today, those bloodlines have thinned. Many Americans today feel they shouldn’t have to work hard. And it seems our new immigrants are more interested in what they can get or get away with.

This country is heading towards disaster but many people say it will be okay. They say that Americans have always prevailed through tough times. That may be true, but they were the Americans who were “made in America”, not the cheap knock-offs we have today.

Stupid is as Stupid Does

I have a question for all you big-government people out there. Do you really know who in the government you are allowing to make more and more decisions for you? Let’s take a look at the prior occupations of some of the members of the 111^th Congress as documented by the Congressional Research Service. The list includes:

• professional musicians, a semi-professional musician, a screenwriter, a comedian, a documentary film maker, a major league baseball player, and an NFL football player;
• organic farmers, ranchers, vintners, and a fruit orchard worker;
• a driving instructor, a cosmetic sales woman, a mountain guide, and a ski instructor;
• a casino dealer, a night watchman, and a prison guard; and
• carpenters, bank tellers, furniture salesmen, an ironworker, an auto worker, a clothing factory worker, a textile worker, an oil field worker, a mortician, a coroner, a teamster member/dairy worker, a paper mill worker, a cement plant worker, a shellfish specialist, a river boat captain, a taxicab driver, an auctioneer, a toll booth collector, and a hotel clerk.

Now, don’t get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with any of these occupations. In fact, our Founding Fathers wanted us to be represented by our peers, especially in the House. But they also severely restricted their ability to interfere in our daily lives by stipulating the few things they were allowed to do in the Constitution.

Now, in direct violation of the Constitution, we are allowing this group of 535 people to tell us everything from how much money we need to how much water should be in our toilets. Do we really want them to make these decisions for us? Do you really think that this group so smart that we should trust them with more control over our lives?

Before you answer watch the video below:

 

"My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.''Representative Hank Johnson (D-Ga.): speaking to his fear that too many troops sent to Guam could be disaster, specifically the presence of a large number of American soldiers might upend the island of Guam. March 25, 2010

Do I Really Need to Say This?

Please, GOP pundits, stop trying to defend why people need guns. It is not the job of 535 people in Washington to decide what Americans need and then ensure that is all we have.

I’m sick of hearing people on the left telling us we only need a certain type of gun with a certain type of ammo, or that the “rich” don’t need that much money, or people don’t need big cars. I am also tired of people on the right being sucked into that argument. When we argue why we think we need something it becomes a fait accompli that it is the right of the government to decide what it will allow us to have unless we can convince them otherwise.

Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that it is the job of the federal government confiscate or band things they think we don’t need. This ignorance of the Constitution by our elected officials has got to stop! If not, we will find ourselves defending to our servants in Washington, why we need cars that go faster than 75 miles an hour, or why we need a recreational fishing boat, or more than one TV.

GOP, stop fighting these little skirmishes and hunker down around the Constitution.

All In

They say if you want to boil a frog you don’t throw it into a pot of boiling water because it will just jump out. To boil a frog you should put it in a pot of cool water and gradually raise the temperature until the water starts boiling. By the time the frog notices what’s going on it is too late.

For years the Democrats have been turning up the heat. They are continuing to move us to a European Socialist, government dependent, bankrupt country. The Republicans have unwittingly performed their part of this sick dance by slowing the Democrats down enough that the frog remains clueless.

Now Obama wants to really crank up the heat and the Republicans are scurrying around trying to slow him down. All that will do is allow Barack “The-Buck-Stops-Here” Obama to blame Republicans when things take a turn for the worse.

It is time to get out of this destructive cycle and go “all in”. Here’s my plan. The frog voted for Obama. Give the frog what it wants. Every Republican should vote “present” on all domestic, fiscal bills. Taxes on the rich: “present”. More “investments” and “stimulus” spending: “present”. More giveaways: “present”. Republicans couldn’t possibly be held to blame when all hell breaks loose (no matter how hard Obama and the Main-stream media try). And those Republicans who pledged not to vote to raise taxes can honor their pledge.

Republicans believe if Obama gets everything he wants he will wreck the economy. I believe that. The only way to save our country from its slow, suicidal march is let the Democrats turn up the heat so much that the frog wakes up and jumps out of the pot, hopefully in 2014, before too much irreparable damage is done.

Maybe when we hit bottom, the 99% will realize that “sticking it to the rich” really does hurt them as well. Maybe when our credit rating takes another hit, businesses, both small and large, will try to educate the people (like the founder of Home Depot tried to do before the last election). Maybe if things get bad enough, the Republicans who stayed home on the last election day will get off their asses and vote in the next election. And maybe, just maybe, sensible Americans will admit that it is not the government’s job to take care of us from cradle to grave, and to give us everything from cell phones to Big Bird.

If the Republicans let Obama turn up the heat as I suggest and the frog does not jump out of the pot, what then? Then we get to where we are heading anyway, just a few years sooner. It’s now or never. Are you ready to go all in?

Lessons from the Election

Democrats and Republican seem to agree. I hear people from both parties suggesting that the GOP has to “reach out” to Latinos; they should “care more” about women’s issues; they should “be sensitive to” the plight of African Americans.

And how should the GOP “reach out” and “care more” and “be sensitive to” these constituents? By giving them “free” things. That used to be called pandering. It has now become the accepted way of winning elections. Democrats are great at it. It fits into their “everyone is a victim” and their “big government is the answer to every problem” mentality. I fear that the Republicans have learned the wrong lesson from this election and are going to join the” pander party”.

Do I blame our politicians for this? Not anymore. Not since the election. I blame you, the American people.

“Free” things aren’t really free. They are paid for by the dwindling number of taxpayers left in the country. And there are not enough of us with enough money to pay for what we currently owe let alone any new “free” giveaways. This spending will surely destroy our once great country. Let’s look at those who were willing to put their own self interest in front of their country’s by voting for Obama.

If you voted for Obama you probably fit into one of the following categories (although being in one of the categories doesn’t necessarily mean you voted for Obama – read that again carefully):

• Women who think they deserve “free” abortions and birth control pills because they are unwilling to be responsible for their own behavior. Funny how strong, independent women don’t want the government interfering in their personal lives unless it means getting “free” things.
• Men who sleep with women and are unwilling to be responsible for their own behavior. They rather have the women get “free” contraceptives and abortions.
• Young people who don’t think they should have to work their way through college. Young people who insist they want the “college experience” so they live at a college they can’t afford. Young people who want to be treated like adults but want the government to force insurance companies to cover them on their mommy and daddy’s insurance plan. Young people who have been so coddled by their parents they cannot function on their own.
• Latinos who believe breaking the law should have no consequences. Latinos who think that by entering this country they should be entitled to all the “free” things other shameless Americans are getting.
• People paying no federal income taxes. People who have been on government assistance programs for an extended period of time and have no intention of getting off the government dole anytime soon.

To me the symbol of pandering is the “Obama Phone”. Your “Obama Phone” might be some “cash” for your “clunker”, food stamps, or money to buy solar panels. This does not have anything to do with race, creed, color or sexual orientation. It has everything to do with selfishness. What’s your “Obama phone”?

  

Even if we could afford all this spending, spending other people’s money on these things is unconstitutional (see Constitution or Bust).

Alexis de Tocqueville is quoted as saying, "The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money” (see Was Karl Marx Right). You tell me. After this election, do you think the American Republic will endure?

Not everyone who voted for Obama was paid off. Some were just duped. You don’t have to be stupid to be duped. You just have to want something to be true, badly enough. If you voted for Obama you might have been duped and fall into one of these categories:

• Women who were fooled into thinking there are not already laws in place against discriminating against women by paying them less and that the Lilly Ledbetter act was designed to help them and not lawyers (see If You Knew Lilly, Like I Know Lilly).
• People who incorrectly think Obama saved GM from going bankrupt (see Say it Ain’t So, Joe).
• People who believed Obama when he said he created 5 million jobs (see A Sucker’s Bet).
• People who believed Obama when he said he wants to unite our country (see Remember , You’re My President, Too).
• People who think that since bin Laden is dead we no longer have to fear Islamic extremists.
• People who believe that we can stop climate change. The earth is billions of years old, during which time the planet’s climate has been constantly changing. These people think that the current climate, the climate the earth has during, say, Al Gore’s lifetime, is the correct climate. They believe we should do whatever it takes, no matter how destructive to people currently living on the planet, to keep the climate as it is now, forever.

Then there are the other people who voted for Obama who are just despicable. They fall into these categories:

• Rich liberals who would rather feel good about themselves by electing people to take someone else’s money to fix the country’s problems rather than spending their own money directly (see Imagine).
• People who are just plan jealous of people who are more successful then they. People who miserably think ‘If I can’t have it, no one should have it”, even if it destroys the country.

I am proud to say I did not take rank with the people I described above. Only time will tell how destructive this election will be to our country. I am afraid once we find out, it will be too late to do anything about it. I do not believe there will be a politician brave enough to try to take people’s “Obama phones” away. This election may have been our last chance.