Clouds of some sort of a tax or other from of rebellion loom in the horizon, at least in my mind, anyway.
correction post # 32...."from" should be "form".
gitmo - you're absolutely correct. The president and all members of Congress take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. This is Article IV., Section.4: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion."
Since even the open-borders pro-illegal lobby admits this is an invasion, it's clear that most of our elected federal officials don't give a damn about our Constitution or the general welfare.
Business interests love the cheap labor with no benefits and the pols try to out-pander each other for the illegal vote. Never mind the enormous tax burden for social welfare, prison incarceration, insolvent hospitals, bankrupt school districts, the crime and social chaos brought by the drug cartel and the 'hidden' costs of being a bilingual society. Just as California is now Mexifornia, cities and states far from the border are now morphing into the same patterns.