WE ARE ALL IMMIGRANTS IN THE U.S.
There has been much discussion latey about Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich’s idea of what makes for a fair immigration law. He claims that someone who has been in the U.S. for about 25 years and has family here, paid taxes etc. should be considered a citizen, not an illegal immigrant. This is fair he claims, and the media is working on the rest of us to agree. Well, I don’t! For the same reason we feel people should be responsible for themselves. Gingrich made the nasty comment about the OWS protesters who should take a bath and get a job with no evidence the protestors were not clean.
If someone has been in the U.S. for 25 years, why have they never gotten Citizenship? There are classes everywhere. Many local school districts hold classes for citizenship. After 25 years one should have gotten, or at least applied for, citizenship testing. The route to citizenry in the United States is not one planned for failure. We welcome immigrants in these United States and we make the travel toward that citizenship easy.
Americans are very open to Immigration and we don’t need the brilliant Mr.Gingrich to teach us how to behave.
Has America become so debased that all the Republicans have as we approach the election of our 45th President is Cain and Gingrich? True, many are unhappy with number 44, he at least does appear to be an individual of respectable behavior. Two of those standing in the wings leave much to be desired and it disturbs me because . . . . AMERICA DESERVES BETTER . . .
. . . Our Founding Fathers were men of Faith, they spoke, wrote and lived in concert with an Almighty being. The two candidates hovering in the wings are Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich. Cain is being accused of inappropriate behavior with women in his employ and Newt, following two divorces, is on his third wife. Newt, who by his own admission is so bright, he has saved America so many times, that Americans owe him the title of Pres. # 45. Don’t you believe it!
I don’t understand how these two are running so high in the polls. It grieves me even more when I see and hear so little coverage for other candidates with far better behavior, loyalty and production than those two.
True, a major portion of American Voters are not happy with President Obama, but the displeasure does not come as a result of immorality, rather leadership. Our country, the United States of America was founded and built by people who crossed the ocean for Freedom OF Religion, not FROM religion. They were people who cared about one’s behavior.
According to a recent Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life almost 85% of Americans claim religious connection. The rest claim to be religious, but not affiliated and others are just not particular either way. All of which indicates a preference for, at least, a minimum of decency among their neighbors and leaders. Why not for the leaders of our country? How can a population of 85% faith affiliated individuals be willing to accept a self confessed sexual pervert (because that is what one is when he sexually harasses women?) Before you claim there has been no proof, just accusations, Herman Cain went on television and admitted to what he did to one of the women. It sounded like sexual perversion to me.
If there is one, there certainly can be more. Today, Cain’s wife, with children standing by, went on TV defending him. The man has no shame!
Beginning long before the Pilgrims, there was a desire for freedom, more specifically, freedom of religion, not from religion! People wished to be free from government established religions. They believed freedom to be a gift of the Almighty, they believed in an Almighty being. All of which, if nothing else, demands respectable behavior. The natives that welcomed the pilgrims had a code for respectable behavior if not a formal religion. Have we fallen so far? The earliest compact on record is The Mayflower Compact, which begins with . . . “IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN.” We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of England, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &. having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia; do by these presents, solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, . . . .(1620)
Words from the first Inaugural Address of President George Washington 1789. Following his expression of thanks and humility to the ‘people’ General Washington turned attention to the “Almighty Being” whom he considered was responsible for the progress of the United States through those difficult times before a Constitution.
“Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who resides in the council of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a government instituted by themselves for their essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellow citizens at large less than either, No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States.
Beginning with the earliest colonists, there was the desire for freedom – but freedom of religion, actually freedom from government established religions. Behavior was basic to their religions, and respectable behavior was an expectation.
Respectable behavior ought to still be an expectation in a President.
The last thing Americans need for President is a Sexual Pervert or a man who divorces sick wives. By his own admission, Herman Cain, as women were waiting in the wings to testify and confirm the accusations, went on TV and told his story, ”All I did was. . .” And what he acted out was sexual abuse of a woman who came to the Restaurant Association seeking a job.
Gingrich’s present wife has been identified by him as his third wife. If one cannot be true to those he took under the sanctity of marriage before God, what can Americans expect from him as President? And he did it twice. Please don’t tell me about all of what he accomplished as Speaker of the House, it really wasn’t that much, nor was it that good! That’s why he has to repeat it so often, we didn’t forget, he just never produced enough for us to remember!
Once in the office, we will have four years to eat crow. The Republicans do have better! Ron Paul and Michele Bachman have both given years of loyal and constitutional service to our Country in the U.S. Congress. Paul in our Military as well! Romney and Perry have been exemplary Governors. All four would make good Presidents. There are more that come with exceptional backgrounds and who would make us proud to have them represent our country around the world.
For the sake of our children, America has better people that will represent us in a way we can be proud. AMERICA DOES HAVE BETTER! So members of the media, American refuse to follow your lead, show us ALL of the Republican Candidates, not just the ones you plan to anoint!
Back in November 2010, The Economic Collapse Blog predicted the President was steering our counry into the One World Economy. Since the 1980′s, when I decided to run for the U.S. Congress, I have been reading about a One World Economy. There are several groups interested in uniting the countries of the World into a single unit (whatever one might call the results. The Trilateral Commission, the Bilderburgs are two of the better known, and probably most successful. Actions and policies of the current President of the United States appear to place him right smack in the middle of those who conspire.
At eleven o’clock this morning, I heard the President tell Congress that the “people” are speaking to him! During the course of his talk this AM, he made that claim at least twenty times.
Everything he wants for Americans, you know like, The Jobs Act, Congress (meaning the Republicans) doesn’t like. He has done everything possible (Including promising his next child) to get them (those Republicans) to pass the Jobs Act.
Americans, you know, the “people” tell him, they want the Jobs Act, but he can’t seem to get it across to Congress that they need to pass it because the “People” know that is what they need. It seems those people over there in the Congress won’t negotiate with him and PASS THAT BILL! All of it – that is what the People want!
Strange that he knows so well what it is the “People” want! He lives in a large protected area called the White House while members of Congress live in their “People’s” neighborhoods. Yet the President hears from “their People” several times a day, to hear him tell it anyway!
However, what the “People” seem to want is reduced spending, not more dollars being put into a Jobs Act that didn’t work the first time.
Now, Mr. President, I suggest you go back to your office and do exactly what it is the “People” are telling you and the Congress, to do – CUT SPENDING!
Your bill includes money to increase teacher salaries, and rebuild schools because our students need better education. To begin with, I’m tired of hearing that because THAT IS NOT TRUE! Our students have good teachers; they are the best-educated children in the world! And, they do get a good education!
Want Proof?
Just consider how ‘American Know How’, in this great nation of ours, has advanced the technology of the world far more in the last 200+ years than the world did in the 5,000 years before (Read The Five Thousand Year Leap) That demonstrates application of knowledge! What good is passing a test if you can’t put the information to work for you and those around you?
So much for the dumbells in the United States.
On top of that education in this country is a State Issue. More than that, in some states, New York, for example School Boards are local. Teacher salaries meet a standard equal to the average income of those families whose children they teach. There is no such thing as an average salary (well, there is, but it’s meaningless) and teachers should be paid the average of the families whose children they teach. Federal control of education, actually any National project is for “power” and “control” not always for the good of the “People”!
With all of that in mind, and not having heard from the Debt Reduction Committee, I’d like to propose several reductions to our debt-ridden budget. The Education Department (it has taken more than $8M each year since the 1980′s, We have seen nothing useful come of all those dollars so drop $8M!
Then we have a ‘Commissioned Corp’ which takes $10M each year for recruiting and training for emergencies. That is over and above what is spent on FEMA and Homeland Security. Plus $12M for the annual operation. Then there is the more commonly known, the Selective Service Department. Why do we need both?
I have yet to hear how much has been deducted from the duplicated committees as reported the March GAO and CBO reports.
Now if you take out all of those unnecessary dollars, you’ve cut the budget by $30.5M and I’m sure there’s much more when you put on your thinking cap, beside your shoes!
Yesterday people were out on Wall Street shouting, “Get Rid of Capitalism.”
What does that tell you?
Americans needs an education!
Capitalism is everything that the United States of America stands for. The freedom to make your own decisions, even in the world of business.
