Sorry, no room for 6 billion unannounced guests.

“Burden on budget” (Stephen Wall, 2-21) reports on a Grand Jury investigation of a millstone hanging around the neck of the American economy and especially San Bernardino County. Preliminary observations indicate the obvious; that having tens of millions of unknown, underemployed, untaxed foreigners illegally siphoning resources from the system is ‘bad’.

The article goes on to say that many state and county agencies simply do not track the citizenship of their ‘clients’, so they have no idea how much is really being given to illegal foreign nationals that should be cared for in their own country. As a result, managers guess when questioned. They are employed to hand out services and their positions and advancement depend on high volumes of business. So, it is in their interest to provide maximum handouts and to underestimate the percentage of illegals receiving it.

Not all aliens are illegal, and not all illegal aliens are Mexican. A large number are Chinese, Russian, Central or South American, Canadian, European, etc. Whatever the source, having them living outside the law and absorbing far more in services than they pay in sales tax is damaging, and having no knowledge or control over who enters the country in today’s world is suicidal.

Official records show that our government provides up to $30,000.00 per illegal alien family, per year. This is specified assistance, and does not account for costs of law enforcement, emergency room and free clinic treatment, crime losses, jobs denied to citizens, etc. Decency demands that taxpayers provide illegals 3 things: emergency medical treatment (if needed), a box lunch and a safe bus ride. Several countries have official programs to deal with their poor and uneducated by encouraging them to leave; go north. Mexico adds indoctrination about sending home U.S. dollars and reclaiming “stolen” land, despite treaties and purchases from Spain and Mexico (who subjugated the original settlers, the Indians).

Arguments on the economy often focus on the “burden” of government retirees. While we would be better off with fewer government service-distributing employees, it is unconscionable to lay blame on those soldiers, cops, firefighters and others that put in their 20 or 30 years of service obeying rules that they did not make. Elected “representatives” (mostly progressive Democrats) rarely mention the greater onus of so many that have no right to be here at all. Because intentional misinterpretation of I.N.A. section 301 creates “instant citizens”, they hope to gain votes from handing out the taxpayers’ money.

The Grand Jury is doing important work. We need a steady, controlled flow of honest, talented immigrants to keep the American Revolution strong and fresh. We do not need cynical abuse of foreign “slave labor” to support a few politicians and modern-day plantation owners at the taxpayers’ expense.

Overwhelmed yet?

Some people are trying to keep up, but life must go on. Many are confused and lots are, well, overwhelmed by all the political turmoil going on.
Obama promised over and over to have the most open, honest, bipartisan administration ever. What we got was self-proclaimed Marxist revolutionaries advising a duplicitous President. Also a congress that holds a few do-nothing hearings, then closed-door meetings with Reid (or Pelosi) deciding, with just a couple Democrats, on what would go forward despite the clear and stated will of the People. Then a “confidential” bill was introduced, some senators were bribed, and a vote was taken at midnight.

We had beaten back and beaten down Al Qaida and the rest, but now face multiple attacks within our own borders. Leaving aside the intelligence gathered about the underwear bomber, the guy appeared at the airport with insufficient I.D. and no luggage at all, paid cash, and was permitted to board without any searches. The only thing that kept burning airliner and human parts from raining down on Detroit was a bad fusing job and a single, heroic passenger that jumped tough. Where was the security? The White House had issued orders to stop calling it “terrorism” or “war”. CIA officers are being prosecuted for using safe-but-tough methods, after 9-11, to interrogate 6 Al Qaida leaders who all gave up active plot information that saved lives. Navy Seals are being prosecuted for punching a mass murderer in the stomach during his successful arrest. Enemy combatants are being brought into our cities (Google “Beslan” and watch your kids) for civilian trial, instead of the traditional, U.N. standard, military trial. The Al Qaida-instructed Ft Hood murderer was classified as a lone criminal instead of a terrorist. And now, valuable FBI assets are being reassigned from counter-terrorism to (wait for it…) GLOBAL WARMING.

That’s correct, federal cops will now investigate global warming, despite all the proof of fraud by the leftist climate “scientists”, in the face of the coldest winter in decades (people are dying), instead of going after criminals or enemy combatants. Think these guys have any time – or will – left to stick their necks out for our safety?

This leaves aside the suicidal spending spree, taxing everything in sight (“tax” is listed 187 times in just the “health care” bill and the I.R.S. is becoming an enforcement agency), ACORN/S.E.I.U., tax-cheats, unconstitutional takeover of private businesses and personal property, bowing and apologizing for D-Day, your cel-phone and your car, etc, etc, etc. Too much stuff.

You see, “using the enemy’s own laws against him” and “overwhelming the system” are both parts of the playbook of Marx. And Cloward & Piven. And Alinsky. And their friends. What’s irrelevant to them are the truth, and the welfare of the American People.

Anti-racism

In the Wednesday Point of View, Jose Zapata Calderon (professor of Chicano Studies at Pitzer College and president of the Latino and Latina Roundtable) pointed out that President Obama's policies are eroding his support. However, Calderon believes this is due to insufficient class warfare and lack of redistribution on Obama's part.

Calderon seems to think that "black and brown" are systemically excluded from full participation in the U.S., and by conservatives. Despite residue from generations of subjugation (welfare) and limitation ('victim' mentality) by Democrats (which actually supported southern slavery and resisted equal rights in their history) the 2008 elections alone are proof that this is not true. He notes the plans of organizers of marches in 2006 (the ones where school kids were encouraged to skip classes) included plans to use them for voter organization.

Calderon claims that Obama and the super-majority Democrats have been "blocked" in the promised social justice by the banking industry (which they have taken over), Financial Services Roundtable (which has no legal authority) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (also powerless other than representing nearly all small businesses, which create 75% of new jobs). And though Obama has met with immigration rights leaders and promises amnesty, Calderon is upset that enforcement of the sovereign laws of the U.S. have have inexplicably continued.

Calderon warns of a "movement that promotes racism and scapegoats immigrants and working people for the economic problems". He mentions "thousands of conservatives that took to the streets ... questioning Obama's citizenship", probably referring to the millions of working people nationwide that mostly protested obscene spending and socialist programs, in addition to Obama's qualifications and other viewpoints. The same conservative protests that had zero arrests and less litter than global-warming and anti-capitalist protests that were 1% of their size. Calderon somehow divines that, when Obama repeatedly and demonstrably lied during the State of the Union address and a senator yelled "you lie", it must be based in animosity toward blacks.

Lastly, despite the Democratic super-majority, Republicans (who cannot even get the President's campaign promises or insurance regulations passed) are somehow blocking progress and Democrats cannot seem to get universal, government health care enacted.

None of these issues, of course, have anything to do with the fact that the ovewhelming majority of voting, tax-paying citizens oppose mindless spending, unsustainable debt, increasing taxation of every class, killing the job market, loss of the world's best health care system, unconstitutional government control of the People and states, or throwing open the borders while we are under continued terrorist attack.

No cause for celebration.

The Democrats once again managed a late-night, weekend buy-off of votes, to pass a so-called “health care” bill, which still leaves out 24 million Americans. They beat their deadline to give a cynical “Christmas present” to the People, who do NOT want it. To buy off Senator Nelson (who somehow forgot about his abortion funding concerns in the face of money), Nebraska was given a free pass on the state costs of this monstrous bill, meaning that the rest of the country has to make up their share. Except Louisiana, since Sen Mary Landrieu (who somehow forgot about her debt and deficit concerns in the face of money) was bought off with a specific 300 million dollars. So the other 48 have to cover their part. Except Nevada, since Majority Leader Reid built his gimmee’s right into the bill he crafted in secret. So it’s just 47 and counting.

Never fear, though, because Obama promises that (if you ignore the huge side-bills that hide much of the costs) the bill will actually make far more health care on far less money. This, he says, will be obvious… right AFTER the next election cycle.
Republicans, in a rare show of integrity, unanimously avoided caving in to pressure, but the Dems didn’t need them with their super-majority. But Reid gleefully announced that almost “everyone in the Senate got something out of this bill”, and if they didn’t, then “their states were not well served”. In other words, graft and corruption are now the proud tradition of the Senate of the United States. This multi-trillion dollar bill was about power and money, and the Senators that refuse to give up the exclusive health care system that goes with their jobs-for-life are not really concerned with what they passed, as long as it gave the government more power over We, the People.

A shiny, new Oligarchy to replace that frayed, worn-out Republic. Merry Christmas!