Things that should be done
In no particular order, here are some things which are not always popular but should be done.
• Pass an Amendment to the Constitution, that gives the President a line item veto of any spending measure. Who in the world could be against this? The really big government people I guess.
• Start a two pronged attack on our dependence on foreign oil. Allow drilling on the moonscape in northern Alaska, and begin a wartime shift from oil to hydrogen. See phoenixproject.net
• Pass a Guest Worker program which does not reward illegal aliens.
• Get an exit strategy. Not for Iraq or Afghanistan, we have plans there but for Germany, Japan, Korea, the Balkans and any other place we have no national interest in being there.
• Follow through with a plan to get men to Mars.
• Use the buying power of Medicare Care to get competitive bids on prescription prices.
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Saturday, January 31, 2004
Thoughts on Immigration Policy Changes
Recently President Bush’s concept to set up a Guest Worker Program has come under intense fire from his own supporters. The concept in greeted as just another amnesty for illegal immigrants although the plan does not automatically grant citizenship to guest workers. The cry is that criminal trespassers are being given a reward which will just lead to an increased avalanche of Mexicans paddling across the border. But we do need the workers and we do need to control the flow of non-citizens in and out of this country. How about this? Have the plan only for new people from Mexico or other countries, signing up as the plan envisions, being vetted with cooperation of the Mexican government to disallow criminals and the like. The current many millions of illegals would have to return to Mexico before being allowed to enter the program. They would be given a period to return to Mexico. If they are caught after this deadline they would be forever disallowed from being in the Guest Worker Program. To make any of this work a there needs to be a Federal Law that all law enforcement officers in the United States must turn over any and all illegals to the Homeland Security Department and to have deportation swift and sure.
Recently President Bush’s concept to set up a Guest Worker Program has come under intense fire from his own supporters. The concept in greeted as just another amnesty for illegal immigrants although the plan does not automatically grant citizenship to guest workers. The cry is that criminal trespassers are being given a reward which will just lead to an increased avalanche of Mexicans paddling across the border. But we do need the workers and we do need to control the flow of non-citizens in and out of this country. How about this? Have the plan only for new people from Mexico or other countries, signing up as the plan envisions, being vetted with cooperation of the Mexican government to disallow criminals and the like. The current many millions of illegals would have to return to Mexico before being allowed to enter the program. They would be given a period to return to Mexico. If they are caught after this deadline they would be forever disallowed from being in the Guest Worker Program. To make any of this work a there needs to be a Federal Law that all law enforcement officers in the United States must turn over any and all illegals to the Homeland Security Department and to have deportation swift and sure.
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
Elementary Logic: The Sidewalk is NOT causing the rain.
Some misguided souls among us look at the spots of water on the sidewalk and decide the sidewalk is causing the rain. So it is today with some who see the fanatic Muslims spread their murder and killings of innocents around the world. In their denial, they feel it was President Bush’s fault for visiting London that caused there to be terror attacks against British interests in Turkey. No, the terrorists stuck there because they could. It is a measure of the success in the War on Terror that these suicide killers are reduced to hitting soft targets, preferably where there isn’t that much security. But, the terrorists are the one’s doing the killing not the President of the United States. Note that Turkey defied the US, disallowing the US Army access to Iraq from their shores. The Turks probably were doing this with the hope that this would spare them of the terrorist’s attacks. Cowering before these monsters doesn’t help; at least it didn’t stop the bombings in Istanbul.
Some misguided souls among us look at the spots of water on the sidewalk and decide the sidewalk is causing the rain. So it is today with some who see the fanatic Muslims spread their murder and killings of innocents around the world. In their denial, they feel it was President Bush’s fault for visiting London that caused there to be terror attacks against British interests in Turkey. No, the terrorists stuck there because they could. It is a measure of the success in the War on Terror that these suicide killers are reduced to hitting soft targets, preferably where there isn’t that much security. But, the terrorists are the one’s doing the killing not the President of the United States. Note that Turkey defied the US, disallowing the US Army access to Iraq from their shores. The Turks probably were doing this with the hope that this would spare them of the terrorist’s attacks. Cowering before these monsters doesn’t help; at least it didn’t stop the bombings in Istanbul.
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
As Printed in the AZ Republic
Isolationist policy won't stop terror
Oct. 31, 2003 12:00 AM
Regarding Robert Robb's column Wednesday, "Why is U.S. such a target?":
I at least like his tone: not dripping with hate the way most Bush-haters are these days.
But Robb is wrong. These fanatics hate everyone. Besides the Sept. 11, 2001, atrocity, they have killed citizens in Bali, workers from the United Nations and the Red Cross in Baghdad and even fellow Saudis in Saudi Arabia. These miscreants hate anything that does not follow their anti-freedom credo of taking the world back the 10th century.
Jimmy Carter pulled the rug on the shah and we got the ayatollah. Saddam Hussein killed more Muslims than anyone in history.
We are at least opposing Arafat under Bush, not kissing him in the Rose Garden as Clinton did.
Be plain about what you want. What Robb wants is an isolationist, cut-and-run policy. Maybe he can gain support for his position, but then we will be fighting in Cleveland, not Baghdad.
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