Jeb Bush is compromised, unacceptable. His progressive positions on Common Core, his support of abortion, his support of NSA spying on all Americans, his support of amnesty are all unacceptable and out of step with the American people. In addition to being on the board (until he announced his candidacy) of progressive billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s foundation, which donated tens of millions of dollars to abortion providers and supports Common Core, little know, Jeb Bush has a troubling past including being the conduit for his fathers’s Iran – Contra drugs for arms trade and shady banking deals. Oh my. As I said a couple of years ago when his mother told him not to run, Jeb is running in the wrong party.
Free Market Libertarians (which usually includes me as well as experts like Milton Friedman) with our emphasis on individual liberty suggests that everybody in the world should have the opportunity to rise as high as their talents and energy allow, without the restriction of borders. However, as Roy Beck at NumbersUSA illustrates in his very popular videos, the impact this would have is negligible at best, and at worse, prevents real solutions for third world poverty.
“You cannot simultaneously have a welfare state and free immigration.” –Milton Friedman.
“According to Free-Market Libertarians, it is not right to deny consumers the opportunity for lower-cost goods that might arise from the free flow of lower-cost goods and labor from other countries. Neither is it right to restrict the owners of capital from the additional profits that might be gained from cross-border movements of goods and labor. And, thus, it is not right to protect the workers of one country from wage and job losses due to competition of foreign workers through either trade or immigration barriers. However, restricting the access of the lower-wage foreign worker from jobs in this country not only would deny that worker the right to upward economic mobility, it would deny American owners the right to further upward mobility for themselves.” ~ NumbersUSA
Open borders and thus free immigration are theoretically a good thing in a free market economy. But, we don’t have free market economies in America, in Europe, in Mexico, in China or anywhere really. America is a welfare state. Open borders and free immigration are incompatible with the welfare state; this is reality, not theory.
Can we stop the welfare state and instead allow open borders? America and the world are already on the welfare train and we are stuck on that train until its inevitable crash. Even in the best scenario, it is a huge crash. Let’s try to not make it worse.
Welfare is not only the hundreds of billions of dollars borrowed each year (new debt) in new federal, state and municipal “entitlement” payments for food stamps, medicaid, disability, jails, unemployment, social services, tax credits for children for illegal aliens, etc. Welfare also includes the hundreds of billions of dollars borrowed each year (new debt) by government on behalf of citizens to pay farmers for not growing certain crops or animals or to reduce the export price of their crops or animals, and the hundreds of billions of dollars borrowed (new debt) by government on behalf of citizens to fund windmills, solar farms, climate research, carbon sequestration and other “green” corporations, new weapons systems, Ex-Im Bank, and gifts to the UN and other countries and the hundreds of billions of newly borrowed dollars (new debt) each year to fund the growing government bureaucracy itself. Welfare is also the billions of dollars borrowed (new debt) each year to pay pensions and healthcare for retired employees at all levels of bloated government. All of that and more are welfare.
We are living in President LB Johnson’s Great Society, a vision from the 1960’s. It is a system that is almost universally recognized to be economically unsustainable.
Welfare is nothing more and nothing less than money borrowed by politicians in your name and put in politicians hands with which they buy votes for themselves to increase their power and keep themselves in office. LBJ knew that. Today, Congress, the Presidents and the courts are institutionally unable to stop themselves, it is a system-wide addiction to spending and cronyism.
Bringing more people into this country increases welfare payouts, basically accelerating the train to its inevitable crash and making that crash worse for everybody. Or another analogy: lifeboat America is already sinking. Bringing more people on board will sink it faster. An Article V Convention of the States (as described in the Constitution) is required to haul the federal government back to the original Constitution. It takes time to get enough states on board.
“The Case Against Immigration, The moral, economic, social, and environmental reasons for reducing U.S. immigration back to traditional levels.” Here is the entire book as a pdf file. https://www.numbersusa.com/sites/default/files/public/from_drupal5/pdf/TheCaseAgainstImmigration-RoyBeck.pdf
This report details how the Obama Administration has carried out a policy of de facto amnesty for millions of illegal aliens through executive policy decisions. Since taking office in 2009, the Obama Administration has systematically gutted effective immigration enforcement policies, moved aggressively against state and local governments that attempt to enforce immigration laws, and stretched the concept of “prosecutorial discretion” to a point where it has rendered many immigration laws meaningless. Remarkably, the Administration has succeeded in doing all this with barely a peep of protest from Congress.http://www.fairus.org/DocServer/Obama_Enforcement_Report.pdf
“To provide clarity, the difference between an immigrant and an illegal alien is comparable to the difference between a houseguest and a burglar.” …”The “Gang of Eight” Can’t See Straight”
“Furthermore, it is impossible to understand how the Gang of Eight has utterly ignored the fact that there is virtually no integrity to the process by which aliens are granted lawful status and U.S. citizenship under the current circumstances. Aliens who are applying to participate in the “DREAM Act” program cobbled together by the President without the consent of Congress are not being interviewed in person.” … “It is beyond comprehension that the current administration, the Gang of Eight and others are utterly ignoring the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Report that provided an in-depth analysis of how the terrorists who attacked our nation on September 11, 2001 were able to enter the United States in the first place and then manage to game the immigration benefits program, which enabled them to embed themselves in our country.”
~ Michael W. Cutler was a Senior Special Agent with the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
“Some commentators have attributed Barack Obama’s many foreign policy disasters to incompetence. But he has been politically savvy enough to repeatedly outmaneuver his opponents in America. For example, the Constitution makes it necessary for the President to get a two-thirds majority in the Senate to make any treaty valid. Yet he has maneuvered the Republican-controlled Congress into a position where they will need a two-thirds majority in both Houses to prevent his unilaterally negotiated agreement from going into effect — just by not calling it a treaty.”
“If he is that savvy at home, why is he so apparently incompetent abroad? Answering that question may indeed require us to “think the unthinkable,” that we have elected a man for whom America’s best interests are not his top priority.” ~ Thomas Sowell, PhD. Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Social progress requires individual freedom to choose. Social progress is reversed or destroyed by government, collective, consensus or media action to suppress individual choice. Tyranny requires suppression of the individual’s right to choose. None are more hopelessly enslaved by tyranny than those who believe government, media, consensus or community can provide dignity or honor. Dignity and honor are characteristics of individuals who are honest with themselves first and then honest with those around them, and they choose on that basis, regardless the collective, consensus, government or media pressure around them. No other person or institution can bestow dignity or honor. The country is beyond the point of peaceful return when the majority believes they are choosing social justice. Punished for flying one symbol but celebrated for flying another, you have been conquered by division. What did you expect? That is what community organizers do. “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! — I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” ~ Patrick Henry, 1775.
The politics of identity results first in the loss of personal integrity followed ultimately by the loss of soul itself. The political end goal of building a constituency, a coalition among a rainbow of special interests which have been created by the divide-and-conquer group identity practices of community organizers and radicals, requires deceit by the politician and self-deceit by the voter. The mendacious politician and the compliant voter rationalize and justify their behavior based on the end goals. In their minds, the end goals are justified by the means. They disregard the psychic effects of mendacity.
There is an exception: if all are welcome in the big tent, and the politician stands on principles, tells the truth and allows the votes to fall where they may.
However, remembering and repeating all the lies, their slippery rhetoric, and the various constituent audiences for each has a dire price to the politician’s psyche. Mendacity requires space in conscious and unconscious mind, reinforced burned-in synapses, which progressively color, then block reception and memory of real life events. So we frequently hear of a politician who is “out of touch.” And so they are.
Both liar and persuaded voter, true believers as Eric Hoffer calls them, progressively lose their identity and become the lie, emotionally identified with it, living the lie. Unlearning is much more difficult than learning. The person, whether politician or persuaded voter, progressively becomes pathological, no longer able to think freely, or even to push back against habits of mind reinforced by their emotion. They become physically addicted to the lies. Freedom of thought is thwarted, even though the apparent intelligence of the politician may be enormous.
Genius among sociopaths, psychopaths and character disorders is common. For them, the barriers to unlimited and immoral action are gone. They are typically charismatic and appear confident. What Freud called the superego or conscience is warped into narcissism, a defense mechanism by the brain to prevent its disintegration.
The soul is based in freedom, a gift of God, to know thyself. When constrained by the habits of body or mind or both, the soul flees to find freedom again. Trust the more humble person who stands on principles rather than rhetoric and is willing to test those principles by defending them in the court of public opinion. Be highly skeptical of any secretive politician or when their words are so smooth or they seem to be too good to be true; these are the disguises of liars in the process of losing their souls.
The Obama administration is destroying America, yet a large portion of Democrats are calling for more of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton’s socialism.
Fifty-two (52) million people or “21.3 Percent of U.S. Population Participates in Government [means tested] Assistance Programs Each Month.” Between 2004 and 2012, this is an increase of almost 25%. This does not include regular Social Security or regular Medicare. Means-tested programs include Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and General Assistance (GA). http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/…/cb15-97.html
Bernie Sanders continues to gain support from Democrats.
More reports show Donald J. Trump was right on with his immigration comments and Obama is derelict of his sworn duty to protect and probably criminally negligent: “According to a March 2, 2015 “ICE Weekly Departures and Detention Report,…There were 168,680 convicted criminal immigrants who had final orders of removal but who remained at large in the U.S.” …”Another 179,018 convicted criminal immigrants with deportation cases pending also remained at large.”…”In 2013 the Obama administration released 36,007 criminal immigrants who had nearly 88,000 convictions. Those convictions included 193 homicide convictions, 426 sexual assault convictions, 303 kidnapping convictions, and 1,075 aggravated assault convictions.”…”In January, the Department of Homeland Security revealed in a 38-page document to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) showing that of those criminals released in 2013, 1,000 had gone on to commit additional crimes including, terroristic threats, lewd acts with a minor, various types of assault, DUI, robbery, hit-and-run, gang activity, rape, and child cruelty.” http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/07/more-than-347000-convicted-criminal-immigrants-at-large-in-u-s/
“The Betrayal and Coverup by the U.S. Government of the Union Bank of Switzerland – Terrorist httpThreat Finance Connection to Booz Allen Hamilton and U.S. Cental Command.” A Whistleblowing Report to The United States Congress. ://sttpml.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/SHELL_GAME.pdf
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said in his opinion for the majority, “Finally, it must be emphasized that religions, and those who adhere to religious doctrines, may continue to advocate with utmost, sincere conviction that, by divine precepts, same-sex marriage should not be condoned. The First Amendment ensures that religious organizations and persons are given proper protection as they seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their lives and faiths, and to their own deep aspirations to continue the family structure they have long revered. The same is true of those who oppose same-sex marriage for other reasons.”
It is worthwhile to point out that the First Amendment specifically protects the “free exercise” of religion.
First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
It is also worthwhile to point out that under the U.S. Constitution, the Supreme Court makes no law.
Media, politicians and special interests will paint rainbows to obscure the “bright-line” decision of the Supreme Court and to bend public opinion to their own purposes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright-line_rule
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