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Ants.
Self | January 14, 2003 | Luis Gonzalez

Posted on 01/14/2003 2:26:38 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez

Ants...

That's my answer.

My wife hates ants, she freaks out when she sees those little tiny ones (pissants we called them as kids) running across the kitchen floor. She buys gallons of insecticide, she drowns them in the stuff, and we pay a guy to fumigate every month.

But the ants always come back.

One day I decided to find out what was going on, I had always thought that ants are just a fact of life, and that you better get used to interacting with insects, living in the tropics and all (the Florida State bird should be the mosquito), so I tracked one.

It came in through a tiny hole under the sliding-glass door leading out to the patio. It ran across the floor, along the wall, up the side of the cabinet, and into a little crevice that led it to the storage area below my kitchen sink. I opened the door just in time to see the little guy climb up the wall of the kitchen trashcan, and into a veritable pissant smorgasbord!

My kid's leftover banana peels from breakfast, the last two bites of a Pop Tart, some coffee grounds, and the crumbs from the bottom of a box of Frosted Flakes.

No lid.

That's our problem, we leave sugar out for the ants, and then we act surprised, and outraged, when they show up to do what ants do.

What needs to be done about illegal immigration, in order to truly bring an end the problem, may be more than what we as a nation may be willing to go through. We need to stop giving the house away, and quit electing politicians who do it. We need to convince others that they need to do the same.

The quick (and deadly) solution of militarizing the borders, is scary, and has no possible end in sight, the moment we think we have things under control and stand down, the ants will come again. It's like taking an over-the-counter cold remedy, you're still sick; you're just too medicated to notice; and as soon as you stop taking it, you feel like crap again.

We need to seriously curtail the welfare entitlement programs, for everyone too, not just illegal immigrants. We need to limit State assistance to anyone believed to be here illegally to:

We need to challenge the current interpretation of the XIV Amendment in Court, a well-organized, well-financed challenge seeking to eliminate "anchor babies". We need to severely fine and/or prosecute employers found guilty of knowingly using illegal alien help. We need hard time for smuggling, and manufacturing and/or distribution of falsified legal identification documents...hard time, not Fed time.

We need to increase the technological abilities of the INS and the Border Patrol, and improve their efficiency.

I think we should offer incentives to American manufacturing firms looking to set up shop overseas, to build in Mexico, and not China. Mexico needs to co-operate with some internal reforms, and by relaxing some laws. If we are about to help a nation grow economically, I want it to be the one right next door to me, not the one who has nukes trained on me.

We should also bring back the Bracero program, it's a win-win.

Any individual caught in the U.S. illegally should be deported, and not allowed to return to this country, for any reason, for life. But I also think that if we find someone who has been here illegally for fifteen years, working, not breaking laws, setting roots, and otherwise being a model member of the community, we need to give them special consideration, and try thinking out of the box for a kinder solution.

I want to solve the problem, not medicate the symptoms.

I think a long-term goal of US foreign policy towards Mexico should be one of mutually beneficial trade terms, and wealth creation.

And I think that we need to clean up our spilt sugar. The ants will not sneak in under the sliding-glass door, because they know there's nothing in here for them.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: California; US: New Mexico; US: Texas; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: immigration
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To: Luis Gonzalez
My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger; if you are snared in the utterance of your lips, caught in the words of your mouth; then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into your neighbor's power: go, hasten, and importune your neighbor. Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.

-- Proverbs 6:1-6
201 posted on 07/19/2003 8:31:54 AM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: kjam22
**PING**
202 posted on 09/21/2003 11:22:18 AM PDT by Luis Gonzalez ("As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." - Abraham Lincoln)
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Regards;

DD


203 posted on 04/08/2004 3:06:52 PM PDT by PRND21 (Darkdrake Lives)
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To: PRND21; hchutch
Me, me, me!

Regards;

DD


204 posted on 04/08/2004 3:09:06 PM PDT by Poohbah (Darkdrake Lives!)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Click the Graphic to View All FR 'Bump Lists'.

205 posted on 04/08/2004 3:13:04 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Free Republic Freepathon: Become a Monthly Donor: "Give Till It Helps!" (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Poohbah; PRND21; RedBloodedAmerican
This icon jpg thing is for the birds. . . or the cats?

Regards;

DD


206 posted on 04/08/2004 3:27:46 PM PDT by William Wallace (Darkdrake Lives!)
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To: Luis Gonzalez; hchutch
Lake Tahoe woman dips into S.F.'s homeless till

Ahem. Your thesis proven at the link...

207 posted on 05/13/2004 9:23:12 AM PDT by Poohbah (Four thousand throats may be cut in a single night by a running man -- Kahless the Unforgettable)
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To: Poohbah
Sure looks that way.

:-)
208 posted on 05/13/2004 3:06:06 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez (Sin Pátria, pero sin amo.)
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To: Poohbah
Almost forgot!

Regards;

DD


209 posted on 05/13/2004 3:07:31 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez (Sin Pátria, pero sin amo.)
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To: Luis Gonzalez

bump


210 posted on 12/27/2004 1:25:21 PM PST by PRND21
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