R.S.F. America

Look at the rusty old pot trying to call the kettle black! Jimmy Carter, once again, proved his complete irrelevance by proclaiming “the Bush administration is the worst in history”. Now he’s backing up so fast you can almost hear him make a beeping sound. Mr. Bush quietly dismissed the remark as the ramblings of an old fool, though he is too much the gentleman to say it in so many words.

Instead of writing books in an effort to distract from his failures and traveling the world badmouthing America, Carter should have gone back to farming peanuts in Georgia a long time ago. In fact, looking at the damage he has done to our country in the past 30 years, he should never have left.

This is a man who took over a reasonably sound economy which he quickly decimated with 20% interest rates, 12% inflation, 10% unemployment and staggering Social Security taxes. He, also, managed to mishandle an oil energy crisis, sold out vital American interests in Panama and spent more than a year fumbling his way through the Iranian hostage crisis. He delighted in prancing around with petty dictators and terrorists like Yasser Arafat and set the table for today’s menu of terror. What Carter, unwittingly, began was finished by the next Democrat president, Bill Clinton, who served America an apathetic Middle Eastern buffet. All this damage occurred in just one term, after which he surrendered the keys of the country to Ronald Reagan, with just a 21% approval rating.

Is this someone who should be making derogatory remarks about President Bush? Mr. Bush inherited a recessive economy and has dealt successfully with the consequences of the most devastating attack in our country’s history, all the while weathering a barrage of constant undermining criticism from the Liberal Left. Yet, in spite of all this, he has kept us safe, maintained virtually full employment, 5% interest rates and inflation under 4%. He is rebuilding the military that, once again, was gutted by Socialist Democrats and has been unflinching in his pursuit of the Global War On Terror. While his approval rating is a mere 33%, it remains higher than the 26% rating recently garnered by the Democrat-controlled congress, and still outperforms anything achieved by Jimmy Carter.

It’s interesting to hear the worst president in modern times try to transfer that title to one of the finest. If President Bush was more aggressive in addressing illegal immigration and unbridled spending he would likely get my vote again, in spite of my previous post. As for Mr. Carter, he would do better to take that left foot of his, which always seems at the ready for oral insertion, and try standing tall on it for a change. Stop running down my president and my country, Mr. Carter. Take a good look in the mirror and take your place on the ash heap of history, which has your name on it in bold letters.

R.S.F.

Remember when you were a hot, tired kid on the playground, standing in line waiting for a cool drink from the water fountain? All of a sudden, some other kid cuts into the line ahead of you, then another and another. It made you pretty mad, didn’t it? Now imagine these same kids take the whole fountain away with them…and the teacher tells you it’s all right because they were thirsty! What makes it worse is you’re paying for both the fountain and the water with the last of your allowance. That’s what is happening with the immigration amnesty bill before Congress right now. Yes, I said amnesty. Cloak it however you like, if someone is here illegally and is allowed to stay, it’s amnesty.

This is a piece of legislation, that will fill nearly a thousand pages, which was crafted in the dead of night behind closed doors. The only people who even know exactly what it says are a few of our alleged representatives and members of Hispanic lobby groups, who wielded veto power over the content. The government is trying to ram it down our throats with no debate and before anyone else finds out exactly what’s in there, especially us! This bill is dangerous, expensive and insulting. It is an offense to every taxpayer and to the millions of immigrants who have invested the time and money to begin their lives in this country legally, by respecting our laws, not by breaking them.

These criminals have no skills, less than a high school education and will cost the American taxpayer TRILLIONS of dollars more than they will ever contribute to the system in all of their lifetimes. They will dramatically diminish Medicare, Medicade and will fatally impact Social Security in about 20 years, just when it is already expected to go bankrupt. Even now, illegals in this country consume around $30,000 each in taxpayer-funded benefits per year while returning only a small fraction of that to the system. One can only hope there are still a few politicians left in Washington with enough intestinal fortitude to block this measure or, at least put it through the proper hearings process, and buy the time we need for all of us to understand exactly what is being put on the table.

Our country was build by hard working immigrants who wanted to become Americans. They came here legally, played by the rules, assimilated into our culture, learned our language and contributed talents and abilities that made America the greatest nation on earth. Contrast this with today’s millions of illegal aliens, sneaking across the boarder with no regard for our laws, bringing with them their own culture of poverty, disease and learning the currency but rarely the language; in the process, they’re simply bleeding our system dry. If that’s not enough, they drop an ‘anchor baby’ which provides them sanctuary, take jobs Americans would otherwise hold and add insult to injury by complaining about it. They seek to change our system, not to embrace it. They are about to destroy America as surely as the Islamic terrorists who are crossing the boarders among them. One U.S. Boarder Patrol Agent has been quoted as saying, “One in every ten that we catch is from the Middle East. Arab terrorists are here!”

Closing our boarders is more than a matter of immigration; it’s a matter of national security. We must know who is here and where they are. I’d like to know where the idea came from that we need a ‘comprehensive bill’. We need to plug the leak first, then start bailing. This can be done immediately and without debate. We have approval for 700 miles of fence but have only built 2. Where are the other 698 miles? Once the boarders are secured, we can worry about what to do with the 12 to 20 million illegals already here. By the way, if what is known about this legislation is true, they’re planning to allow an additional 400,000 freeloaders per year into our country in the future. While a $5,000 fine and some other stipulations are supposed to be met for citizenship, I’ll guarantee you’ll never see any of it happen. The instant Mr.Bush’s pen hits the page, everyone becomes legal and is entitled to the same benefits, rights and privileges as any American. Where’s the incentive to become a citizen? These disrespectful intruders weren’t looking for that in the first place, just ‘the bennies’. By the way, I thought the immigration act we passed in 1986 was supposed fix everything. What happened?

I’ll reserve additional comment until we know more, except to say I’m becoming thoroughly sick of having to ‘press 2′ to get English on my telephone, and having to deal with people who don’t speak the language, then cop an attitude when you don’t understand them. I’m tired of seeing signage everywhere duplicated in Spanish, of hearing the guttural drone of foreign tongues and having to look at people wearing ratty Halloween costumes year-around. If they are here illegally, send them back to fill out the paperwork and get in line. Got a family? Tough. Take them or leave them but go home.

If an immigrant is here legally, learn our language, our culture, our history and be welcome. As long as I’m paying for it change your ways, not mine. This is America. We don’t need any more people trying to turn it into someplace else and we don’t need legislation that forces us to finance our own demise.

R.S.F.