Monday, August 30, 2010
8/28 Restoring Honor Rally
Amazing!!!! There is no other word for this weekend. I don't know what to say about it, you had to be there. But I'll try I'm working on a blog post now that I will post as soon as I finish. It was amazing and a honor and pleasure to be there.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
Illegal Immigration
"Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law. "-Richard Lamm
Amnesty according to Merriam-Webster is, "the act of an authority (as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals." So when it comes to amnesty and illegal immigration, that means we pardon all the illegal immigrants and allow to stay in our country. Which on some level sounds very nice. "Aww, you broke the law, oh well you can stay anyway."
So in this post, I'll be talking about illegal immigration, and why it's bad, why amnesty is bad and why we need to build a fence.
In this country we have laws. And we follow them, most of us, and those that don't follow the laws have to deal with the consequences of their actions, welcome to jail! When we ignore the laws of our land and let people go on like nothing ever happened, then our system is a sham. As the quote says when we don't follow our own laws, that shows the world they don't really matter. When people say they have certain values or believes, but when times get hard and they leave desert these values, then those people never really held those values to begin with. Same applies to laws, if we don't follow them when it's hard we never really had that law. When we give ammnesty we tell the world, come to America we won't kick you out, we will let you stay. Now for the record, I don't have a problem with immigrants, many of my friends are. I admire them, they make me feel bad sometimes, and inspire me because they have moved here from many different places and from places they are not as good as America. And they know what they want and work their butts off to achieve it. They work harder than many people. I have a problem with illegal immigrants. People who break our laws to gain access to this country. According to Homeland Security the number of illegal immigrants are at 10.8 million for 2009. Most of these coming from South and Central America, and many from Mexico. Some bringing in the problems with the drug cartels.
Now some people claim that having all these illegal immigrants aren't taxing the system. Now I have to argue. These people aren't citizens, which makes it hard to find a job, and the ones they find are low paying jobs. But they are sending their children to schools, and to emergency rooms and using various resources that are supposed to be for American citizens, and because they are 10.8 million people using these resources, I have a very hard time believing they aren't a burden on our system. However if these extra people aren't a burden on the system, then why is Mexico bracing for the return of these people? They don't have the money to support these people either, which means money is needed to support these people. When you have 10.8 million people who are willing to work for cheaper prices, they take jobs that American citizens could have, and with a current unemployment rate of 9.6 according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics we need all the jobs we can get.
Now how to we fix this problem? Very simple. We build a wall, not just a fence, a wall. Think Berlin. I mean it a big, thick wall, with barbed wire on the top. When someone is found coming in this country illegally, put them in a helicopter, with a parachute and someone who speaks Spanish to tell them how to use it. Fly over Mexico and drop them into Mexico with a parachute. Yes, this will take lots of money but now is the perfect time. One of they main reasons that these people are coming into America is for a better way of life. Well right now we are struggling with that. There aren't a lot of jobs for them to take. Some are starting to go back. Right now will our economy is not doing so good, we need to build the wall so when we are doing better we can stop the flow of people trying to come in. And no ammesty. When we find illegal immigrants in this country, we kick them out.
Finally just something to think about. When people in America and around the world want to talk trash about how we are so mean to not let these people in our country, we are certainly nicer than other countries. Former president Jimmy Carter just went to North Korea to aid in the release of an American citizen who was sentenced to eight years of hard labor and a fine of 700,000 dollars for entering the country illegally. Most countries around the world don't joke around with immigration and neither should we.
We need to crack down on illegal immigration, this is a problem we can no longer afford to ignore. If we don't deal with this now, it's going to get to a point where we won't be able to deal with it later. So tell you representatives to vote against ammnesty and for building a fence to protect our border and help secure our country.
Sources
New Article-http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/world/asia/28korea.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Quote-http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/immigration.html
Homeland Security Report- http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/ois_ill_pe_2009.pdf?tag=contentMain;contentBody
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics-http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=usunemployment&met=unemployment_rate&tdim=true&dl=en&hl=en&q=unemployment+rate
Amnesty according to Merriam-Webster is, "the act of an authority (as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals." So when it comes to amnesty and illegal immigration, that means we pardon all the illegal immigrants and allow to stay in our country. Which on some level sounds very nice. "Aww, you broke the law, oh well you can stay anyway."
So in this post, I'll be talking about illegal immigration, and why it's bad, why amnesty is bad and why we need to build a fence.
In this country we have laws. And we follow them, most of us, and those that don't follow the laws have to deal with the consequences of their actions, welcome to jail! When we ignore the laws of our land and let people go on like nothing ever happened, then our system is a sham. As the quote says when we don't follow our own laws, that shows the world they don't really matter. When people say they have certain values or believes, but when times get hard and they leave desert these values, then those people never really held those values to begin with. Same applies to laws, if we don't follow them when it's hard we never really had that law. When we give ammnesty we tell the world, come to America we won't kick you out, we will let you stay. Now for the record, I don't have a problem with immigrants, many of my friends are. I admire them, they make me feel bad sometimes, and inspire me because they have moved here from many different places and from places they are not as good as America. And they know what they want and work their butts off to achieve it. They work harder than many people. I have a problem with illegal immigrants. People who break our laws to gain access to this country. According to Homeland Security the number of illegal immigrants are at 10.8 million for 2009. Most of these coming from South and Central America, and many from Mexico. Some bringing in the problems with the drug cartels.
Now some people claim that having all these illegal immigrants aren't taxing the system. Now I have to argue. These people aren't citizens, which makes it hard to find a job, and the ones they find are low paying jobs. But they are sending their children to schools, and to emergency rooms and using various resources that are supposed to be for American citizens, and because they are 10.8 million people using these resources, I have a very hard time believing they aren't a burden on our system. However if these extra people aren't a burden on the system, then why is Mexico bracing for the return of these people? They don't have the money to support these people either, which means money is needed to support these people. When you have 10.8 million people who are willing to work for cheaper prices, they take jobs that American citizens could have, and with a current unemployment rate of 9.6 according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics we need all the jobs we can get.
Now how to we fix this problem? Very simple. We build a wall, not just a fence, a wall. Think Berlin. I mean it a big, thick wall, with barbed wire on the top. When someone is found coming in this country illegally, put them in a helicopter, with a parachute and someone who speaks Spanish to tell them how to use it. Fly over Mexico and drop them into Mexico with a parachute. Yes, this will take lots of money but now is the perfect time. One of they main reasons that these people are coming into America is for a better way of life. Well right now we are struggling with that. There aren't a lot of jobs for them to take. Some are starting to go back. Right now will our economy is not doing so good, we need to build the wall so when we are doing better we can stop the flow of people trying to come in. And no ammesty. When we find illegal immigrants in this country, we kick them out.
Finally just something to think about. When people in America and around the world want to talk trash about how we are so mean to not let these people in our country, we are certainly nicer than other countries. Former president Jimmy Carter just went to North Korea to aid in the release of an American citizen who was sentenced to eight years of hard labor and a fine of 700,000 dollars for entering the country illegally. Most countries around the world don't joke around with immigration and neither should we.
We need to crack down on illegal immigration, this is a problem we can no longer afford to ignore. If we don't deal with this now, it's going to get to a point where we won't be able to deal with it later. So tell you representatives to vote against ammnesty and for building a fence to protect our border and help secure our country.
Sources
New Article-http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/world/asia/28korea.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Quote-http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/immigration.html
Homeland Security Report- http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/ois_ill_pe_2009.pdf?tag=contentMain;contentBody
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics-http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=usunemployment&met=unemployment_rate&tdim=true&dl=en&hl=en&q=unemployment+rate
Monday, August 23, 2010
Venezuela and Socilism, and People want this because??????????
I'm taking Comparative Politics this semester in school and my professor has links on the class's Moodle site for a few different new sources. On my break I go and check to see what's going on in the world. And today we are going to talk about Venezuela. The article was titled, "Venezuela, More Deadly Than Iraq, Wonders Why." I have the link at the bottom for you to see the article itself.
Well it turns out Venezuela is violent, like crazy violent. In 2009 the number of civilian deaths were above 16,000. But people live with this, however when a newspaper published an article with a picture of murder victims on the front page, the government didn't like that to much. They told the newspaper to stop publishing pictures of violence. To quote Teodoro Petkoff an editor from a different newspaper, "Forget the hundreds of children who die from stray bullets, or the kids who go through the horror of seeing their parents or older siblings killed before their eyes. Their problem is the photograph.” I'm glad for the citizens of Venezuela that their government has their priorities straight. Venezuela is currently under a decade long surge in homicides since the election of Hugo Chavez. Of course crime problems do not appear over night, but the number of homicides this last year are three times higher than before Hugo Chavez stepped into office.
Socialism is supposed to be great, it's on the road to communism, it's for the people, everyone is equal and everyone is happy, right? Well not in Venezuela. But let's look into why the crime rate is so high.
While other countries economies around Venezuela are growing, the economy of Venezuela is shrinking, and the gap between rich and poor is growing, despite spending on anti-poverty programs. Wait, you mean the government can't help people be less poor???????? I know shocking, to some people. I'm here to tell you people that the government can't fix the people's problems. That's not what they are here for. All that spending and it isn't doing any good, I wish my government would realize this and stop spending.
Another reason for the high crime rate is that the salaries of police officers are low, and with the highest inflation in the hemisphere, more than 30 percent, police officers are turning to kidnapping and other means to supplement their income. Ohhhh wait, you mean lots of government spending and higher taxes, generally both found in more left leaning governments leads to inflation, which everyone thinks is bad? Talk about corruption, like in Batman Begins, you know you have problems when the police are crooked.
Other people put blame for the high crime rate more on the government. Apparently the judicial system of Venezuela is becoming more political which means that the judges lose their interdependency and are aligning themselves more with the political movement of Hugo Chavez. A lot of state employees are being forced to leave their jobs, and in some cases the country. Henrique Capriles, the governor of Miranda, a state that encompases parts of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, says the Hugo Chavez has made the homicide rate worse by cutting money for state and city governments led by political opponents and by taking about thousands of guns from their police forces after losing elections. Great this just gets more and more corrupt.
Now they are trying, Venezuela is getting help from Cuba and Nicaragua, two countries that have maintained the lowest murder rates in Latin America.
However the issue of the picture in the paper are sparking into discussions of the governments efforts to have more control over new sources they are not in charge off. What ever happened to freedom of the press?????? Government officials are also threatening an inquiry into "Rotten Town," a music video by a Venezuelan reggae singer which shows a young child killed by a stray bullet. "We elected him to crack down on the problems we face,” he said. “But there’s no control of criminals on the street, no control of anything.” From Hector Olivares a citizen of Venezuela, who has lost two sons.
So overall, Hugo Chavez, and socialism has know control of the press, a higher crime rate, corruption, inflation, a huge gap between rich and poor despite spending on anti-poverty programs, limited freedom of speech, I mean wow I now understand why people want socialism, is sounds great to me. I pray for the people of Venezuela, I really do, that God will keep them safe, and that their government can solve this problem of all these murders, and that their new efforts to combat this problem will work.
Sources
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/world/americas/23venez.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Well it turns out Venezuela is violent, like crazy violent. In 2009 the number of civilian deaths were above 16,000. But people live with this, however when a newspaper published an article with a picture of murder victims on the front page, the government didn't like that to much. They told the newspaper to stop publishing pictures of violence. To quote Teodoro Petkoff an editor from a different newspaper, "Forget the hundreds of children who die from stray bullets, or the kids who go through the horror of seeing their parents or older siblings killed before their eyes. Their problem is the photograph.” I'm glad for the citizens of Venezuela that their government has their priorities straight. Venezuela is currently under a decade long surge in homicides since the election of Hugo Chavez. Of course crime problems do not appear over night, but the number of homicides this last year are three times higher than before Hugo Chavez stepped into office.
Socialism is supposed to be great, it's on the road to communism, it's for the people, everyone is equal and everyone is happy, right? Well not in Venezuela. But let's look into why the crime rate is so high.
While other countries economies around Venezuela are growing, the economy of Venezuela is shrinking, and the gap between rich and poor is growing, despite spending on anti-poverty programs. Wait, you mean the government can't help people be less poor???????? I know shocking, to some people. I'm here to tell you people that the government can't fix the people's problems. That's not what they are here for. All that spending and it isn't doing any good, I wish my government would realize this and stop spending.
Another reason for the high crime rate is that the salaries of police officers are low, and with the highest inflation in the hemisphere, more than 30 percent, police officers are turning to kidnapping and other means to supplement their income. Ohhhh wait, you mean lots of government spending and higher taxes, generally both found in more left leaning governments leads to inflation, which everyone thinks is bad? Talk about corruption, like in Batman Begins, you know you have problems when the police are crooked.
Other people put blame for the high crime rate more on the government. Apparently the judicial system of Venezuela is becoming more political which means that the judges lose their interdependency and are aligning themselves more with the political movement of Hugo Chavez. A lot of state employees are being forced to leave their jobs, and in some cases the country. Henrique Capriles, the governor of Miranda, a state that encompases parts of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, says the Hugo Chavez has made the homicide rate worse by cutting money for state and city governments led by political opponents and by taking about thousands of guns from their police forces after losing elections. Great this just gets more and more corrupt.
Now they are trying, Venezuela is getting help from Cuba and Nicaragua, two countries that have maintained the lowest murder rates in Latin America.
However the issue of the picture in the paper are sparking into discussions of the governments efforts to have more control over new sources they are not in charge off. What ever happened to freedom of the press?????? Government officials are also threatening an inquiry into "Rotten Town," a music video by a Venezuelan reggae singer which shows a young child killed by a stray bullet. "We elected him to crack down on the problems we face,” he said. “But there’s no control of criminals on the street, no control of anything.” From Hector Olivares a citizen of Venezuela, who has lost two sons.
So overall, Hugo Chavez, and socialism has know control of the press, a higher crime rate, corruption, inflation, a huge gap between rich and poor despite spending on anti-poverty programs, limited freedom of speech, I mean wow I now understand why people want socialism, is sounds great to me. I pray for the people of Venezuela, I really do, that God will keep them safe, and that their government can solve this problem of all these murders, and that their new efforts to combat this problem will work.
Sources
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/world/americas/23venez.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
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