We are a Nation of immigrants. Most of the immigrants to this country were even unwilling, forced to immigrate due to having no other option. Immigrants to America have fled starvation, crushing poverty, and religious persecution. A large portion of our population can trace their ancestry back to immigrants who were brought here in chains and forced to labor as slaves. Even the aboriginal peoples who resided on the land which comprises this Nation were forced to immigrate from good lands to worse lands to the outlying wastes.
This country was settled by immigrants, and despite what our ancestors did which was wrong, and that what they did which was right, they flourished and prospered here. They did well enough that they attracted wave after wave of immigration. It was these immigrants and sons of immigrants which built everything we see, and claim to be American. We are a people who are not a people. We are united citizens of this world, drawn together by a bright and shining common dream. And our true strength lies in that common dream of all the peoples of this world.
That dream, which when we are true to it, is held in awe, wonder, and desire by people all over the world. It is the right to live at peace with our neighbors, the ability to profit from our own hard labor with even least able to provide for his family, and the freedom to practice our religion without threat of persecution.
That dream is embodied, refreshed, and renewed by each immigrant who crosses our borders to find work. Even the illegal ones. The part we the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren (no more than 8 generations deep!) have to play in this renewal of the dream is assuring that our Governance doesn't crush it.
Our current Governance of this Great Nation and Great Dream of the World is crushing the life out of itself through reckless social welfare. Social welfare is the antithesis of every bit of the American Dream. Social welfare is premised on the class system, which undermines the right we have to live at peace with our neighbors! The premise of Social Welfare is if a man is rich, he must have made that on the backs of those who are poor, therefore the Government must take what is his and give it to those who do not have as much. The action of Social Welfare is to penalize those who work hard, by taking what they earned, and reward those who do not by granting them what they have not earned. The result of Social welfare is to force its humanistic philosophy down the throats of all peoples at the expense and to the exclusion of all other religions and philosophies.
We currently are dealing with another wave of immigrants. These immigrants are in large part illegal. Their crime? Crossing the border in order to claim their portion of the American Dream at a time when we the currently residing immigrants have forgotten our place, our time, and our Dream. We should welcome all people who are willing to work hard and earn an honest day's wages. We should, in accordance with the American Dream which brought our forefathers hence, be welcoming to all who would come here for such a noble American cause.
We have high unemployment right now, nearly 25% of those who are capable are unemployed. I'm even one of them! But the hidden, unexplained truth is, that unemployed people create their own jobs, if they are not both supported and crushed by a social welfare system. But the social welfare system is currently paying at least 10% of us not to work! And I rather suspect the majority of the remaining 15% who not working are likewise on the government welfare rolls through some system other than unemployment insurance. Further, the crushing regulation and tax burden required to support the Social welfare system makes it difficult or impossible for a man to earn a reasonable wage for a reasonable days work, and even more difficult for him to become successful enough to hire and pay workers to assist him at his business.
Do not get caught up in this "illegal alien" clap trap. It is far to easy to point the finger at the "other" the "outsider" and lay blame there, when in fact it is the voting citizens of this Nation who are solely at fault, and solely to blame for our current predicament. We, the voting citizens, the children of prior immigrants, are also the only solution.
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