Re: Immigration laws
My point is, why is the USA appointed as the world's police force?
You should be very happy with our current president who is back pedaling from that top cop gig as fast as he can, and trying to lead from behind, even inside the US.
I'm not saying the USA is a panacea, far from it in fact.
Ah "Panacea" the Greek goddess of universal remedy. No we are not a panacea for all the world's ills but if we do not stand up and use our power for good, that vacuum will be filled by bad actors, with bad intentions, doing bad. Just watch the news from the middle east to see what our fiddling while the region burns can lead to. For some reason we still have troops in Germany and Japan decades after WWII, but feel compelled to pull out of Iraq completely before they have this democracy thing all figured out. If you study our own history we didn't hit the ground running but took years to get a government running fairly smoothly while even that is debatable.
Afghanistan will not end well if we likewise pull out completely. At the moment Afghanistan's two pro-western presidential candidates are refusing to accept the run-off vote count. I'm shocked, they question the integrity of the vote process is Afghanistan, poster boy for corruption, among a number of similarly challenged countries.
Kristian, I know the following comment was in reference to the countries that everyone is running away from, but it seems to apply far too readily to the government that is supposed to represent me.
"the leaders of your country are too busy lining their pockets to even know or care you exist"
I fear it is worse than that... but don't get me started.
...and JR, yes. We are already involved and our immigration systems have been systemically broken for far too long. However, as has been pointed out by others, they are kept that way on purpose by this same government that continues to bear no resemblance to representing me. I'd like to see those billions of dollars being spent around this country. You know, reinvesting the money the tax paying public are paying in in THIS country instead of spreading it all around the rest of the world. We are hurting HERE, why is our money going THERE?
Actually we fixed immigration once before, but in classic government mismanagement didn't close the border, so now there is another crop taught to expect amnesty by that previous reform. Look at what we do, not what we say.
We are one world, we benefit from raising up the poor all around the world. However i do find fault with how poorly the US government manages everything they touch. It is hard to complain personally about our stunted recovery when you compare our situation to the rest of the world. It does make me angry seeing how we could make a few economic policy changes and end the malaise, but slow growth here, is still better than even weaker growth or recession in many other parts of the world.
Us complaining about the US economy sounds like Hillary complaining about how poor she was when they left the White House, and had to scrape together enough money to buy a couple houses.
So yes, call me selfish, but it is actually my very own dollars that are being spent to do this stuff. I'd prefer to see some investment in this country rather than paying for wars in other countries.
It's worse than that, they are also borrowing money our children will have to pay back to fund these adventures. We have done a lot of good all around the world but much of those recent gains seem etherial and likely to reverse if not maintained.
JR
PS: the good news is we could ignore ISIS for a decade and even if they managed to fly a hijacked aircraft into a building here there are no skyscrapers in Meridian to take down.
