I didn’t mean to make an enemy.
The middle and the left account for 60% of the voting population. 40% won’t win any elections.
The damage was done when FDR implemented socialism in many steps, each step building on the last. The theme of the decade was that capitalism failed. It was a total lie.
All or nothing is why the libertarians get about 1% of the vote. We have arrived at this point with 75 years of two steps forward, one step back by the socialists.
That is the only way we will win. With a couple of steps forward and one step back. Socialism is rather hard to “undo”. We now have multiple generations that see the government as the solution. How do you change this mindset in 200 million people? When many Freepers show the same mindset? “Why doesn’t the government DO something!” When the question should be “how do we get it it stop?”
Being rid of the illegal immigrants would be a start, but it is just one of the many pieces involved. It’s not the magic keystone that will make it all better if it was solved to your satisfaction. If we hadn’t gone down the road to where voters now can vote for bread and circuses, immigration would not be quite as a severe threat to our existence as a nation.
I am for secure borders. It is the primary purpose of our government. I would support a path to legalization with either 4 years of military service or 10 years of paying into the social security fund before the payee starts getting any credited to their own account. Legal immigrants should be increased in numbers, as it is the only way to keep our Ponzi scheme going on social security.
Our schools, colleges, newspapers, some of our religions are filled with people with good intentions, but they all believe that the government’s primary purpose is to be the nations mommy and daddy. They like the phrase “each according to their ability and each according to their need” Yet most do not understand the inherent evil it represents.
I agree that conservatism wins when it is articulated well. To bad we don’t have many that can do it.
I apologize. I am very passionate about this issue and had no intentions of giving you the impression that I saw you as an enemy.
Legal, educated, productive immigrants...yes. So far the majority of illegals are not in that category.
The illegal alien issue would not be an issue at all if not for government entitlement spending and income taxes. Get rid of all of those, as well as the associated bureaucracies, and then McCain's "practical" plan makes sense. Otherwise, all we're going to get is another amnesty in a few years...and next time it will be for a whole lot more than twenty million illegals.