Copy of email I sent to my DC reps #NoAmnesty

Senator Stinker,

As one of your constituents I am voicing my opinion on the immigration reform bill.  No Amnesty, no partial recognition, no nothing for the law breakers!  These people have disrespected our laws and we are going to grant them a legal status because the President will not fulfill his duty and enforce the laws of the land?  I am sorry, but NO!  To give the illegals any status is the same as a criminal getting caught with a stolen flat screen television by the police and instead of arresting them, the officer gives them a Blu-ray player and cable box.  How can we expect anyone to respect our laws if we do not set a firm example?

These illegals are mostly uneducated, not even having the most basic high school education.  This massive influx of unskilled labor will only flood the market with individuals that will not help our economy.  This will create a downward pressure on wages at a time when the labor participation rate is the lowest it has been since the Carter years.  We need real immigration reform.  We need a point system like Canada.  If you do not have enough points and money to support yourself and family while searching for a job, you cannot get a visa.  If someone does not have enough points, but they have a job skill that is in a category that is needed in the USA, they must have a job lined up in advance to just get a work visa.  This must be a job that has not been filled by potential American labor.  The free market can work, if we allow it to.  If jobs are not being filled because they are not paying enough, then instead of flooding the market with cheap labor, those employers need to increase their wages to fill those positions.  We are talking about unskilled labor, not chemists and engineers. 

With a Canadian type point system, we can reward the educated and those who can already read and write English.  We can reward the younger people who have finished school, but cannot find work in their present country.  We can reward families, when both parents are educated.  The point system has worked well for Canada and we can develop one that works well for the USA.

Real immigration reform would involve a one strike and you are out law like Norway has.  In Norway if you are ever caught there illegally just a single time, you are never allowed within their borders again and you have no chance to gain a visa or citizenship for any reason. 

We also need to abandon right of soil and switch to right of blood.  Yet we must make it even more difficult than other blood countries do, to discourage anchor babies.  If one parent is a citizen then the child must apply for citizenship at 18 like anyone else would (with credit being given for time raised in the USA).  If both parents are citizens, then no matter where the child is born, they are a naturalized citizen.

Before anyone can take the oath of citizenship, they need to understand English at a conversational level.  They also need to understand our country's history and the Constitution at a high school level.  If this is not accomplished, they do get the honor of American citizenship.  We also need to discourage pacifist from becoming citizens, if they are not willing to fight for this country, then they should not be allowed to take the oath of citizenship.

I realize that these are extreme steps, but with 5 million to 25 million illegals in the USA, we need to take extreme measures!  We are 17 Trillion in debt and we cannot afford the burden of people that will never be able to give more to our society than they take. 

Thank you,
Room 101 (not going to post my name :P)

What I wrote to my Reps!

Senator,

I am very concerned with the bill the Gang of Eight has put together.  I am in complete agreement with Senator Ted Cruz that this bill is not good for America!  I would ask that you stand against it the way it is written.

I also have concerns that are not mentioned.  First why are we trying to add millions to the workforce when tens of millions are under or unemployed?  Why are we rewarding people who violate the rule of law?  Why are we going to allow every illegal immigrant who was returned to their home country to return?  This is not something that a logically thinking American citizen would put together when it pertained to their home and personal property.  So why is the Senate doing something that logical dictates so clearly against?

If you break the law, you face the consequences for your actions. That is a basic premise of responsibility and a concept that has made America great.  We cannot be granting exceptions to the law just because of protests.  Would we legalize meth if one million meth addicts marched on Washington?

Why are businesses that violate the law not going to be prosecuted? Why does E-verify not get expanded and instead a new system is put in place similar to E-verify.  E-verify has been a great success and deserves to be expanded rather than scrapped.

The USA has plenty of uneducated and low skill workers, adding more will only add to the burden that our country carries.  It is the right of every country to control its borders and decide who may and may not enter.  The immigration system is on life support, but this bill will kill it.  The Gang of Eight make horrible surgeons!  I see this bill as nothing but catering to every single special interest group in the USA (from illegals to labor to business).  It is time for our elected officials to do the right thing, rather than the politically expedient thing.

Thank you,

Lets go nuclear to protect 2A

          Everyone knows about what is going on as the liberals try to destroy the Second Amendment to the Constitution.  Oh they may say that they do not want to come after anyone’s guns, only assault weapons.  Yet I do not see them standing outside military bases and police stations, since only the military and law enforcement have legal access to real assault weapons.  The Democrats are ignoring Gallup polls that state Americans believe the problem is mental illness and not firearms.  Yet the media keeps claiming less guns will make us safer and the liberals continue on this path of disarming the law -biding citizen.   Well I believe I may have came up with an idea that will so threaten the power structure that not only will it force them to back off (at least when it comes to Federal laws), but it will help to avoid bloodshed (only if successful).

          Now we know that many state and local elected officials are much more friendly and concerned about the Second Amendment than nationally elected officials.  What I propose is to force a Constitutional Crisis on this administration.  We, as patriots, need to make this idea go viral.  Then as many people as possible will be pressuring their state and local elected officials to make a law.  What law will they be making?  A law that says said jurisdiction does not recognize the right of the Federal government to override the Constitution (especially pertaining to the Second Amendment).  So this local law will supersede illegal Federal regulation.  The more areas that actually do this, the greater the problem it will cause for DC.  

          I got this idea because IL and NY are rushing to increase gun laws, yet I have not heard of anyplace saying we will ignore anything that violates the Constitution, even if it comes out of the White House.   I know any first year law student will tell me that these arguments have already been solved in court.  When the parties submit to rule of law, they are satisfied.  What happens when someone say they do not care about past rule of law and the threat of future laws is illegal?  The more locations that do this, the greater the threat is to the stability and authority of the Federal Government.

          Think about it, improve upon the idea and then contact state, county and city officials.  Lets get some of these laws passed.  If this operation is successful, I see a number of potential outcomes.  A- the Fed backs down.  B- every side continues to bang heads, no one gives an inch and the Republic tears itself apart.  C- open warfare starts between the Fed and liberal contingents vs conservative and military units.  This would not be very pretty and would lead to a liberal genocide on a national scale.  Which I do not have a problem with to be honest. D- is not an option, the Fed wins and starts their process of disarming all Americans.  E- is equally unlikely, DNC and GOP reach a compromise.  Yeah right, compromise with a Lib is such an illusion,

          My reasoning for this is simple.  I am willing to protect the Constitution by any and every means necessary!  No matter how great of a tragedy Sandy Hook is, the lives of 30 children do not justify touching a document that has been around for 221 years! 

          There was more I wanted to add, but I am sorry it is past my bedtime.  If I remember this later I will edit it and add what I forgot.

Newtown CT And The Liberals Have Gone Wild

            So another crazy person has done something crazy in Newtown CT and those who want to destroy the US Constitution are once again up in arms.  These people disgust me!  They have no concept of the document or the reasoning behind it, but they think they know what is best for everyone.

            First I want to point out that CT has the fifth toughest gun laws in the USA and this did not stop the shooter.  Why?  Because you cannot stop crazy people from doing crazy things by passing crazy laws!  That is just crazy.  Yet this is the logic of the liberal.  They were raised in their comfortable suburban environment and those hardships have given them wisdom on how to make the USA and the world a better place.  They also seem to point out how prohibition has made marijuana very profitable and available, but somehow they think guns will be different.  Guns that are sold in the USA have to meet regulations which prevent them from being modified back to military specifications.  Make weapons illegal and criminals will end up with military spec weapons.  How will they get them?  They are criminals; they will get them from criminal markets or just steal them.  They will only make a bad situation worst.  

            What they should be talking about is how to deal with crazy people.  It is obvious medication is not working.  Too many Americans are medicated for more mental diseases than I can imagine or care to do research on.  Forty years ago children were hyper and needed a spanking, today they have ADD and need to be medicated.  If we have an explosion of mental disease in this country we need to ask why and what is causing it.  The hyper kids of 40 years ago did not go on shooting sprees and guns were more easily available back then.  Please do not say assault rifles, they are sporting rifles, because they do not meet military specifications!  Stupid liberals always are trying to use words to make something scary or evil.

            Instead of attacking the Second Amendment, why are they not attacking the First Amendment?  Our society has glorified people getting their fifteen minutes of fame through any means.  We have reality television shows, daytime shows like Jerry Springer (not sure what to call them) and the news media that will jump on anything to improve their ratings.  By claiming they are reporting the news, the media is above blame.  Then if they claim it is entertainment, but looks like the news; they can say almost anything they choose.  So where is the battle cry to limit the First Amendment?  This insane person was probably watching the Aurora CO shooter footage back in July and that helped motivate and inspire him.  He probably had fantasies for months and when his life snapped he went for it full steam.  Now if the media had not made such a big deal for Aurora for the ratings, then maybe this tragedy could have been avoided.  We can do this!  The logic follows the liberal belief in politically correct speech.  By changing speech we can change how people think.  Think I am full of shit?  Then why do we always hear about copycat crimes and killers?  Why are there surely extra security measures in place or being discussed, at every public school across the USA this week?  Because we have become unhinged as a people and liberal ideology proves this.

            The fact of the matter is that we are a violent culture and nothing that liberals do will stop us from being violent.  Gun control does not work, just look at countries that have it.  The only ones that it appears to be effective in have a culture that is drastically different from ours.   “You are forgetting about the UK!”  No I am not.  The UK has much more trust in their government and deference to authority.  Japan has deference to authority as part of their culture.  Canada is more like the UK than the USA.  Even though they are one of our closest friends, we must remember that at the end of the Revolutionary War, loyalists went north.  

            No matter how great the tragedy was, it does not justify attacking the Constitution.   The Constitution is what holds the USA together.  Any assault on the Constitution is an assault on the past, present and future of every single American.  So all the holier than thou people can cry on television all they want.  I will ignore them, because they are selfish.  Their real agenda is to make the USA into something that they believe will be perfect and I reject their vision.  Even if my own child was killed as a result of gun violence, I would blame the person and not the tool.  Yet since liberals never want to blame crazy people for their actions, they cast the blame on the tool.  

            And you people wonder why I hate liberals so damn much? 

The Reality of the US debt

Disclaimer: Now I realize that people really feel that anytime you relate something to Nazi Germany, you have a weak argument.  When you think about someone like Glen Beck, who seems to have Nazi tourettes, I understand the concern.  This is not about Nazi Germany; it is not a comparison of the present administration to Nazi Germany.  It is a discussion of the results of excessive debt on a society.

I fear I must give a little history lesson so this is not taken out of context.  It is okay, since I tend to be long winded anyways.  In 1918 Germany lost World War One and in 1919 the Treaty of Versailles was signed.  A significant part of the treaty was that Germany had to pay reparations to the Allied Powers.  In short Germany had to pay the entire cost of the war to the winners.  This placed a very large burden upon the German people.  As long as times were good in the world, the burden was bearable.  Times were however not good and despite having the most modern democracy on the planet Germany needed the help of the USA to be able to prevent it from becoming a third world country (at least in concept, that term did not exist until after WW2).  Prior to the help of the USA runaway inflation existed and the middle class lost their entire savings just to feed themselves.  It was in this environment that the Nazi party was born.  It started as a handful of people that would just bitch about the government at their local beer hall.  My point is, when the economy is bad radical groups are born and they can thrive depending on the amount of time that such an environment exists.

The German people are dedicated to their country and take pride in their national heritage (sound familiar?).  So when the traditional parties were unable to provide relief for the masses, the people turned to different radical groups (Nazis and Communists being the main two) for relief.  When people are hungry, they are willing to give up their freedom to have bread on the table!  In 1923 (if I remember correctly) Hitler tried to start a revolution in Germany with his Beer Hall Putsch. It failed and he went to prison.  It was during this time that he wrote Mein Kampf.  It was also during this time that the USA got involved in Germany’s economy and helped to prop it up.  After Hitler got out of prison he became patient and was determined to conquer Germany through the ballot box.  1923 to 1929 was the time of plenty (thanks to loose credit), the Nazis had ups and downs, but never gained enough numbers to be a serious threat.  Then in 1929 the economy collapsed and Hitler became more and more powerful as the economy want further and further down the drain.  By the time 1934 came around Hitler was able to proclaim himself of Fuhrer (leader) of Germany.

End History Lesson...

So what does the rise of Hitler have to do with the German debt?  Those reparation payments placed a burden on Germany, one the people and government were not able to handle.  Taxes went to pay France, Belgium and the UK for the costs and damage of the Great War.  There was nothing left to support the infrastructure that gave the German people that lifestyle they had grown accustomed to.  When the economy was bad the government cannibalized the German monetary unit (the Mark).  Now that is a little simple, since Germany was on the gold standard, but when they shipped all the gold to France to pay the reparations there was none left to support the Mark.  That is what caused the runaway inflation, making imports expensive.  This also helped make Germany an attractive investment for US investors in the 20s, since that meant costs were cheap.  Germany was truly like China was years ago.  Germany was a place to get high returns, since it could manufacture items cheaply and flood markets because of this. 

Germany was able to bounce back during the early/mid 20s, because the economy in the rest of the world was good.  The Weimar Republic was able to survive and even prosper, but internally it suffered from gridlock.  No single party was ever strong enough to run the country without the support of one or many of the fringe parties.  Because of this the radicals were never able to be crushed by the government.  How could you crush them when you never knew if you might need them...

It was the reparation payments that Germany had to make that placed such a heavy burden upon the German government and thus the German people.  People can talk about how Hitler also played the shame card over the loss during World War One.  It is true he did do that, but during good economic times the audience for such an argument would be much smaller than during bad times.  The audience that Hitler had was larger because of the economy and other issues only helped to cement his control upon the people.

Germany suffered massive problems when the debt was 80% of the GDP and democracy collapsed when debt was 250% of the GDP.  Reparations during this time accounted for over half of the government budget.  Think about it, over half of the tax income of the government went outside the borders and supported foreign governments and some wonder how someone like Hitler was able to come to power? 

So how in the hell do I compare this to the USA’s debt?

First let me remind you that the USA’s credit rating has dropped twice during the Obama years.  The lower your credit rating the more interest you have to pay to finance your debt.  So it costs you more money just to carry your debt, even before you pay it back!  Do you realize that right now 50% of the US budget is financed not by tax revenues but is deficit?  The total taxes paid by all Americans, to all governments (Fed, State and local) is almost 33% of our GDP!  The US deficit is almost equal to the income of all State governments combined!  So if you double your state income tax, your state sales tax and state corporate taxes, then you can balance the budget.  The only problem with that idea is that it will kill the economy.  Corporations will run overseas and people will buy fewer goods, so tax income will drop.  This will force governments to raise taxes even further.  I say governments because states and local governments will not be able to make enough cuts to cover expenses, so they will also raise taxes.  Even if things stabilize, how strong will the economy be if you are paying combined taxes totaling 2/3 of your income?  

One must remember that the credit rating will continue to drop and this will add to the cost of borrowing money, which will only add to the budget problems the government faces!  Think of Greece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Italy and even UK and France.

Now what will happen when an environment like this is happening or threatens to happen?  Extremist groups will become more normal.  People will cast blame on minorities for the ills that affect society.  The most likely targets will be Muslims, African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos and Jews; most likely in that order.  Or maybe the Occupy Wall Street types will get their way and the ones that will be held to blame are bankers, bakers and candle stick makers.  I know, sarcasm, but you get my point.  People will not be thinking rationally and will just want to see someone burn to take responsibility for the position that they are in.  This is mob mentality, human psychology; it is a weakness that is in all of us!  It is NOT a rational thought process.  It is scapegoating.   

You may think I am insane to suggest that any dictatorship could take power in the USA.  You can even point to the fact that times were tougher during the 1930s, than they are today.  That is true, for now.  Franklin D Roosevelt had an advantage that our present government does not have; his debt was not over 100% of the GDP.  He had the room to spend money and run up the debt.  He only pushed the debt over 100% after the US entered World War Two!  The fact is that the USA has never run a debt over 100% during peacetime, until now.  Now you can say that the USA is at war, against terrorism, in Afghanistan; whatever.  The fact is that World War Two the entire country was mobilized to fight the Nazi war machine, which is not the case today.  Since we entered Afghanistan and Iraq the costs associated with these actions were put on credit cards, without even a plan put forth on how to pay the bill!

You may think I am insane, but I see two groups with competing visions for the USA.  One wants to create a utopia, which to me resembles Brave New World.  The other wants to use our own war machine to secure resources.  These are only the groups that are on the radar, can you imagine the ones that are waiting in the wings?  The fact is that Americans will not willingly accept a lower lifestyle.  We may even be willing to pay the cost in blood to maintain our lifestyle.  The problem is that the world cannot sustain growth at a pace that will enable us to be able to dig ourselves out of debt. That is unless we take something from our neighbors on this rock in space or we have to find another place to gather resources in space.  The only problem with the second half of that theory is that NASA has suffered from budget cuts.  If we do not push our future into space, we will run out of resources on the Earth.

Back on subject: The debt sky rockets and the economy tanks.  What do you think will happen when people have had enough?  We are connected less to the land than ever before and much more reliant upon the economic system that is in place.  We cannot just drop out of society and live off the land.  There are no unclaimed areas for us to run to and make a new life.  Fredrick Jackson Turner was a historian in the late 1800s who wrote a paper called: The Significance of the Frontier in American History.  His basic argument was that as long as there was free land in the USA it was able to siphon off anger that would have otherwise been directed at the government.  When pressure got too great in the states, people would overflow into the territories.  Before 1900 there was no more free land to be had, no way for the anger to be siphoned away from those in power. Today we can say one thing for sure, there is no place on this planet that you can just pack up and move to, hoping to survive anyways.  

Over the past 100 years population demographics have drifted from the south to the north, from the east to the west.  Even in our time areas that were considered safe now have the nation’s highest unemployment: Nevada 11.8%, Rhode Island 10.5%, California 10.2%, New Jersey 9.8%, North Carolina 9.6%, Michigan 9.3%, Mississippi 9.2%, South Carolina 9.1% and Georgia 9.0%.  These are just the states that are 9.0% or higher during August 2012.  Notice many of the states listed above would have been though boom areas a decade ago.  This also does not include the people who are under employed or just gave up looking for a job.  Some analysts say you can easily double the unemployment rate to include all groups.  The bureau of labor statistics said unemployment dropped to 7.8%, think about that.  That means 23 million Americans are unemployed.  If analysts are correct that means 46 million Americans are unemployed, under employed or have given up looking for work.  That means almost 1 in 6 Americans are just waiting to be so pissed off that they will accept anything that will improve their present situation!  That is a large force for someone to mobilize!

Now let me put my parable back into perspective.  What sort of inflation did Germany go through?  In 1921 the exchange rate was 64 Marks to the Dollar and near the end of 1923 it was 4,200,000,000,000 to the dollar. Unemployment in 1928 (when the German people were not interested in Hitler) was 8.4%, as Hitler gained power in 1930 it had grown to 15.3% and by the time he became chancellor it was over 30%.  “Yet the USA did not fall apart during the Great Depression!” you remind me.  The highest the unemployment rate has been in the USA was about 22% during the Great Depression.  It was also during this time that immigration came almost to a standstill because more people were emigrating, with one of the most popular locals being the USSR.  Now remember what I stated above, FDR did not have as heavy of a debt burden as the USA has today!  

Please do not tell me how much more civilized we are today and we as a people would never fall for a two bit want to be dictator. Do you really want me to start comparing the stability of the culture that “the greatest generation” lived in to our present time?  I am not saying that they had a perfect society, but I do think it is safe to say we are not as “civilized” as they were.

Now my favorite argument is, “well we can just default on the debt.”  Really?  The biggest holder of US debt is government related institutions, to the amount of 6.3 trillion!  China then has 1.1 trillion, other investors and savings bonds another 1.1 trillion (mostly in the USA), Japan another 1 trillion, pension funds 850 billion, mutual funds 650 billion, state and local governments 480 billion, UK 430 billion, insurance companies 250 billion.  Do you get the point?  If we default, not only will we hurt our own economy internally, but we will also alienate many strong allies.  Plus in 2012 interest on the debt is only 6% of the overall budget, so we would not save much money.  The 1.1 trillion that China holds is nothing but a drop in the bucket, well maybe a cup or two.  

The fact is that the cards have been dealt and one thing that we cannot afford to do Is try to bluff and win this hand!  If a real plan is not put forth bluffing would be pure suicide for us as a people and the majority of the world which relies on the strength of our economy.  It is the fact that the dollar is the world’s reserve currency which enables us to write blank checks and get away with carrying so much debt.

Let me take a short break and explain this concept so everyone understands.  Think of someone famous traveling through a country or state, this person stays at nice hotels, eats out every night.  When it comes time to pay for the services rendered they write a check.  On that check they draw something cute or put a positive comment on it about the service they received. Now so you will understand, the bank will not return the cleared check to you after deposit it.  So you do not deposit this check, instead you frame it, put it on your wall to show everyone that this person was here and what they thought of your business.  It is a blank check, since the amount on the check does not matter, it is never cashed!  As long as this can be kept up they will not have to pay for anything.  Eventually however this famous person will run out of places to stop at, they will return to places they have already visited and those checks will start to be cashed.  Even if they continue to find new locations to go to, the significance of their notes on the check will start to decline and the business will want the money over the bragging rights of the visit.  Basically this cannot be continued indefinitely without expecting people to start cashing these checks.

So what happens when another economy is strong enough to compete with the US Dollar?  Nations will drop the dollar like a hot potato!  Then all of a sudden the inflation that Germany went through becomes plausible.  This will increase the cost of imports, making many of the cheap products we have learned to rely on suddenly luxury goods.  Why do you think China is trying to strengthen its internal economy?  It knows if the dollar collapses the economy of China will suffer, but if they are not reliant on the US economy they can watch us self destruct.  Then we would become the source of cheap products for China.  Why do you think they continue to carry the US debt?  Why do you think they keep their own currency undervalued?   They know they are still addicted to the US economy and cannot afford to wean themselves off of it.  If we ever lose this position of power, they will be able to strike us where it hurts, in the wallet.

So what are we going to do?  What is going to happen?  I can only hope that my darkest fears are just that, my darkest fears.  I know what I will personally do if I am facing a potential dictatorship.  I will quote two famous Latin American revolutionaries, “I would rather die on my feet than live a lifetime on my knees.”  I am just not too good at taking orders from the kind of society we live in today, a totalitarian government will just make me go postal!

My apologies for drifting, we must realize the issues we face are very complex.  Any effort to explain what we are going through is easily destroyed if you do not accept the fact that there are many more factors that must be taken into account.  I accept the complexity of the issues we deal with.  I do not claim to understand them completely.  I only know that I understand them enough that it scares the shit out of me.  The most important thing to know and understand, where the point of no return is; at what point will the debt reach a breaking point that we cannot dig ourselves out of?  That I do not believe anyone truly knows the answer to.  I would like to think the American people are strong, intelligent and innovative enough to pull themselves out of anything, but I know that is not true.  There is a point where the momentum of the debt will continue to carry on and we will not be able to stop it.  It is at this point that my fears of a right, left or some new kind of dictatorship could pop up in the USA.  Already we see the Democrats attacking the Constitution, trying to turn us into subjects from citizens.  The GOP is not much better since they do not want to face the fact that society changes and they are stuck in first gear.  Do not even get me started on Libertarians and other third parties.

As I/we face the future, I can only think of the ancient Chinese proverb/curse, “May you live in interesting times.”  You know what, despite all the challenges we are going through as a people and the risk of falling short... I would not change this for the world, or all the tea in China :P

Thank you, I hope I did not bore anyone too much.  I did not realize exactly what I was biting off to chew until I started to bury myself in it.