Say it Loud!

With the impeding elections looming over head I find myself thinking about the things that are wrong with this country. And then I am faced with the sad reality that no matter who gets into office that chances of any of those things being corrected are slim to none.

Although I have traveled abroad and have had the opportunity to see a lot of the world that most people in this country do not get a chance to see I honestly feel there is no place I'd rather be. However that does not mean that I am at all pleased with my government. So today I am going to do a lil political venting. There are a lot of issues facing this country today, so where is one to start. I'll start at what I see as the bottom of the pile. This country is in desperate need of Immigration reform. We need a Bill that has teeth, we need to take a strong stance towards the infestation of Illegal aliens in this country. The current policy does not actively pursue nor remove this problem. Instead we enable them by, in not so many words, telling them that if they can hide out in the country for 5 or 6 years we will grant them immunity.

As long as we continue along this path we can never move towards Social reform in Health care or Education. These two areas are greatly affected by the influx in illegal aliens. It is the standing rule in the US that no child can be denied an education regardless of their citizenship. However the schools depend on the Tax base of the community in order to pay for the quality of the education that the children receive. So if we allow Ten Million illegals to remain in this country what are we doing to the education that our children receive. People and politicians want to complain about over populated schools and under paid educators but no one wants to do what is needed in order to correct the problem.

For far too long Big Business and those with money and power (the Minority) have been dictating policy in this country and they continue to put into effect laws that meet their greed and less than admirable needs. We all know that the only reason the Illegals are allowed to stay in the country is in order to keep a steady flow of cheap labor in the country. The main reason for this is to increase the Bottom line of big Industry.

I guess next I will have to touch on how the Immigration issues in this country affect Health Care and why it is impossible for use to move towards a national Health care plan as long as the immigration machine is broken. But that will have to be a later conversation.