[WFTR]

Rick Perry tries to give us the false choice of either subsidizing their college educations or having them become dependent. That's typical of a liberal. The third and right choice is to send them back to their countries of origin. That we give them three or more years of education in our high schools and elementary schools is gift enough for people who shouldn't be here in the first place. To resort to the accusation of being heartless is more liberal-speak.

If we give people benefits even though they are here illegally, no amount of "boots on the ground" or anything else is going to keep them from coming. Ranger squads are nice, but if Rick Perry isn't willing to cut off the benefits that drive illegal immigration, illegal immigration isn't going to stop. If we are going to train them to succeed in our system in addition to allowing them to stay, even more will come. If Rick Perry doesn't how incentives work, he's not fit to president.

These debates keep showing that Rick Perry is the real flip-flopper in this race. Even last night, he pulled another flip-flop. He's said many times that he opposed the Arizona immigration law. He's finally figuring out that he's out of step with the GOP and even the Tea Party on this issue. Last night, he bragged that he joined Arizona's suit against the federal government around that law. I guess he was against the law before he was for it. John Kerry could pretend that this sort of waffle was a "nuance." Rick Perry may not know what a nuance is and probably couldn't pronounce the word if he did.

The truth didn't find a voice in Rick Perry, and I hope that the truth is never reduced to having to settle for such a stuttering, fumbling voice.

Nice try, but Rick Perry is TPINO/CINO, Tea Party in Name Only/Conservative in Name Only.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

You seem to have difficulty distinguishing between what the states can do and what the federal government can do and how it leads to these resulting problems.

If the states could stop this, it would have been stopped. It’s bankrupting us. The Feds are using us to support all their programs and inaction and taking the money we send them to do what their supposed to be doing and spend it on something else (sort of how they do with social security taxes) instead of protecting and defending the border.

The facts are that the federal government has allowed this to happen, has enacted dictates and programs that encourage it to happen and the states sit with their hands tied, struggling to keep it from overwhelming them.

Perhaps you could take the time and actually read what I wrote in my essay.