I didn’t take it personally. I understand your frustration. I want the bad eggs gone as badly as you do. There is a significant percentage who are just trying to escape their current hell hole. I understand that. Both sides of my family have been here since before 1645. We were the original Eurotrash, thrown out before the rush. The only good thing was that land prices were low when they got here.
Those who self-deport and apply from their home countries are certainly worth a look.
We don’t need them today. We will in 10 to 15 years. Things like this don’t happen over night. In the next 20 years we will need to roughly double our manufacturing capacity to build the things we want and need because the rest of the world will be in no shape to do it for us. We will also need to double our electrical generation and transmission capacity and this is assuming the Warm-mongers plans are NOT implemented.
I am not adverse to having a discussion as to what the standards should be. I think we should, but that is a political question and should be decided by our elected representatives. If we don’t like what they do, we get the chance to throw the bassturds out at the next election.
I do not think the Democrats will hold either the House, the Senate, or the White House after this November’s election.
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Although I’ve only commented on the first two paragraphs of your OP, I found your ideas in their entirety, to be compassionate and fair to those who seek to gain entry into this great country and for those lucky enough to have been born here as citizens (not speaking of anchor babies)
Your comments on legal entry remind me of the old days of Ellis Island, and I can not disagree with any of it.
Wish I had the time to comment further, but wanted to let you know I’m not a total nut.
KC
I never thought you were. I think you are a frustrated citizen who sees the country they love being degraded before their eyes.
To make matters worse you see the government, whom you were taught in civics class when they still taught civics, not only NOT defending you but actively colluding in the degradation of your country.
Believe me, I understand.
I have spent my entire adult life in the defense of this country. I have gone from the point of the spear, to the spear, to the person holding the spear, to advising those directing the spear holders. Those duties I have turned over to others.
The best I can do today is use the education, experiences, and training of a lifetime to find a way to a better future I will not see from this vantage point. That better way will not happen unless I can spread the ideas to others who can and will help me spread them further. I do that in this select forum of generally like minded adults.
Are my ideas the best way forward? Maybe. It is an occupational hazard of being a programmer not to get things right the first time. The ideation, like programming is a recursive process. First you curse and then you recurse. Eventually you get it right.
With the help of people like you and the others here, I am hoping for better. We will not get perfect but I will be happy with better.
SpyNavy
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)