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By Larry Karl, Erie

What Has Happened to our Government? Streams of illegal aliens stream across our southern borders looking for a better life here in America. The demand for mostly Mexican laborers allows them to be exploited by lawbreakers who hire them.

In 1987 Ronald Reagan offered amnesty to millions. Our government and their sense of memory loss and greed are inhibited and do not learn from history. Mass amnesty and appeasement do not work, but that does not deter politicians for doing what is best for them and their party.

So here we are today with upwards to 50 million illegal aliens still flooding into our country unabated and without fear of being deported. Instead of our government taken a stance and shutdown the southern border they compound the problem by further allowing illegals to not assimilate into our culture. We have states that print their ballots in various languages including Spanish. And now they want to add to a struggling welfare systems as many of the illegals currently live in poverty and would be “entitled” to government social programs.

Children whom cross the borders receive their taxpayer funded breakfast and lunch while attending school and learning in their native tongue. Instead of gratitude we see a growing pattern of large protest throughout the country by illegal immigrants and their supporters, holding their native country’s flag up high with pride. (Sidebar. My observations of those who continue to subside on government programs seem to be angriest than those who strive for a better, more independent life) Bad government is getting worse.

While thousands line up to lawfully abide by our laws on their path to citizenship, The recent anmensty bill floated by the U.S. Congress makes it easier for citizenship to an alarming unskilled workforce. I guess that was the reason for increasing the minimum wage prior to the yet to pass bill. This bill has a presumption that lawbreakers will now follow ours laws. If you believe that I will sell you some ocean front property in Arizona.

As our U.S. Congress and Executive branch continue to do nothing but debate the immigration issue they still allow for open borders and the streaming across into this country for a better life; they know about the problem but they do nothing to shutdown the borders now. One could call this the Paris Hilton affect of a lot about nothing.

Upwards to 80% of American citizens are against amnesty according to recent polls.

I believe money is the root of all evil.

I suspect if the media were to conduct an unbiased investigation into the cause of illegal immigration it would not be surprising if they unearthed a money laundrying scheme were both special interests and big business spend billions of dollars “legally” bribing elected officials to turn a blind eye. So much coming out of Washington nowadays follows this modus operandi that a growing citizenry consider it normal. Meanwhile, the biggest fault of illegal immigration is the 70%-75% of eligible voters who allow for a small minority to decide the fate of this country by not voting.

If you peel back the layers and look at this problem from a political perspective one has to ask who the benefactors are. I would start with various unions and their organizations who gain memberships, and businesses who hire illegals aliens. Take these entities and do a thorough analysis and I’m sure it will be determined they provide substantial financial assistance to our two party monopoly.

As the apex of discussion on illegal immigration continues, no efforts have been made that deter this criminal act. For fear of political correctness (this is not racisim) efforts are seldom made for mass deportation, nor the arrest of business executives who hire illegals.

So what am I going to do about it? Join me in 2008 and not vote for incumbents or U.S. Senators using their current term to run for higher office. The majority of voters need to step up and vote in order to send a clear messag that this is a Republican/Democratic government and our officials are charged by proxy to make tough decisions on our behalf. It does not mean for them to act on some flimsy popularity poll, which they do more and more, deferring their responsibilities.

READER COMMENTS

The "love" of money is the root of all evil.
There's alot of love for money out there.
Greed.! We're with you Larry.

Larry, I'm with you. I am paying attention. Thanks for your letter.

In the beginning the plan was simple; let people sneak into the USA and supply cheap labor under false Social security numbers and they will provide labor and support the coming wave of retiring Boomers. We would not pay the illegals social security because they had false ID's, but now the folks in Washington DC are looking for new voters and will try to legalize the illegals. I wonder how many sleeper agents are coming in the next wave.

Is there a way to speed up the process, like a recall election? It would be nice to get rid of Salazar before 2010.

"The times they, are a changing." We will never give up.

You are so very right Larry. It's time for Coloradans to demonstrate the power of the vote. We need to collectively work together to vote out of office anyone not representing the will of their constituents....especially on the immigration issue.
You have my support and you will have the support of several generations of my family spread out across Colorado. We are already working to rally everyone we know to vote the Salazar‘s, Degette and anyone else that caters to the special interests and not the voters.

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