IMMIGRANT? I DON'T THINK SO

I don’t mean to seem callous, but why does everyone call those folk who cross the border immigrants? I know that they cross the border to better their lives and the lives of their families, but they are not immigrants. They are interlopers. They take the jobs that Americans can take and they deplete the economy through their theft and remaining off of the tax roll.

To give them the moniker of “Immigrant” allots them the status of those who came to America the old-fashioned way. The sojourners of old left home, hearth and land and applied for citizenship in a far away land with a promise to hold a job and live with a party who knew that they were coming and expected their arrival. They didn’t skirt the law in order to gain citizenship, but rather they embraced it. Those that cross our border illegally have scorn for our laws. They have no desire to fulfill the law as it is and they offer nothing to our society except depletion. They use up our resources such as welfare funds and medical care and offer no way to repay it.

Many hospitals in our border states have been forced to close their doors because they are caused to perform medical services on countless individuals who have no means or desire of paying for them.

DO AWAY WITH THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE

It is time to repeal or eliminate the Electoral College. Its use in a modern, electronic age can no longer be supported. The idea that we as Americans vote not for the candidate but for the elector of that candidate now seems ridiculous. The entire purpose of the College was to bring attention and recognition of a particular candidate to the mind and consciousness of an electorate. The member of the college traveled and brought with him or her the message and platform of the candidate. With the age of mass media: television, radio, the internet, and even newspapers, the necessity of a representative speaking for you and on your behalf seems ridiculous. From a Wikepedia article, “On 158 occasions, electors have cast their votes for president or vice president in a different manner than that prescribed by the legislature of the state they represent.”

We must remove the possiblity of this from ever happening again. The stakes are too high in a world that is changing by leaps and bounds. We as Americans deserve the right to speak for ourselves, act for ourselves and vote for the candidate we believe to be most worthy and able to represent us.

ON BEHALF OF A GRATEFUL NATION

“On behalf of a grateful nation” are not the words spoken by the actions of the Bush Administration considering the condition of its felled and injured troops now languishing in their post Iraq experience. How easy it is to send troops to war when you see them as mere commodities, and how much easier it is to ignore them when they limp home in need of compassion and care.

How indicative it is of the Bush White House to send gullible young people into a war that the very few appreciate or understand and then wish them into non-existence when their hurts are no longer convenient and when they can no longer serve the greedy war machine.

It is always the injured and the neglected that pay the price for thoughtlessness.