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In Concerns of Enterovirus 68
A rare virus discovered in 1962 called Enterovirus 68 had, up until recently, been reported only a few times in 36 years. However, this past summer, at the same time when a huge surge of illegal immigrants crossed our porous border, the enterovirus kicked into high gear. Of course, the link does seem pretty straight forward, but to the CDC and others there’s no evidence of any link between the coincidences. Here’s what the CDC had to say:
“There is no evidence that unaccompanied children brought EV-D68 into the United States; we are not aware of any of these children testing positive for the virus,”
“In previous years, it has not been as commonly identified as other enteroviruses,” CDC said. “This year’s increase in confirmed cases is not due to a recent introduction in the United States.”
Anti-Illegal Immigration, Not Just a White Thing
Much maligned as they are, the anti-illegal immigration group isn’t just being voiced by white people but also by concerned African-American citizens. So, are they racist too now?
https://www.facebook.com/AfricanAmericansAgainstIllegalImmigration
Perhaps, there is a very big concern about illegal immigrants gaining amnesty that needs to be addressed by the Democratic Party before they lose the next set of elections. Maybe it’s time for the Democratic Party to listen to the people, but I doubt they will. So, what of it pro-amnesty folks? Are they racist or are they actually concerned citizens? If they are concerned citizens then can it can not be said the same for white folks? No? That’s just racist then.
The Immigration Issue
Perhaps the most hot button issue of today is the issue of immigration. Pundits from both the Left and the Right have their valid points, but also their most ridiculous points on the issue. First, a bit about me and why this issue is close to home. My father immigrated here to the United States from Uruguay, that small country that is south of Brazil and east of Argentina, in 1976 during a time when the Uruguayan government was ran by the military. People had a tendency to disappear that didn’t march in line with the military junta in place. It wasn’t until after the military relinquished power back into the hands of the civilian population and a decade of digging up the truth of the matter that US involvement was made visible to the eyes of every person on Earth. However, that’s a different issue altogether. My father came to the United States for a better life and he worked hard for that life. He learned English not in classes provided, but through trial and era and my American mother. This ability to speak the language of our country led to him getting a decent job as a truck driver that made at least $70,000 to provide for us. In 1998, he became a full fledged citizen of the United States of America and by 1999 was a registered voter. He did things the long, hard and legal way.
Fast forward to today where the calls for amnesty being bellowed by immigrants and non-immigrants alike. At first such an idea might seem like a fair avenue to tread, but what the fairness for those who went the legal route who are witnessing the impending amnesty over the horizon? The idea of amnesty is a slap in the face to those who worked hard to become citizens.
Favorite attack against anti-amnesty folks by the Left is equating it with being racist and xenophobic. Being against amnesty is not racist nor xenophobic, it’s common sense and fair. The job market today is severely lacking especially for the black community. What kind of racial strife that will occur due to amnesty can only range from bad to worse. Strife between blacks and Hispanics is already rearing its venomous head with various racially based attacks occurring in schools. Now, imagine once amnesty is placed into effect it’ll most likely be worse once amnesty and especially the DREAMers are common place in America. Blacks have it hard as is, it’ll be worse for them when once upon a time illegal immigrants are granted virtually instant rights and benefits. I’m against amnesty yet I’m not xenophobic nor racist. In fact, I support immigration as long as it’s done legally. I would be hypocrite if I didn’t support immigration.
The Right have their issues too. For example the whole idea of this being invasion is just simply ridiculous to fathom. White conservatives wouldn’t consider their ancestors coming to America as an invasion so why is this situation different to the point of calling it an invasion? The reason why they are here is for the same reason every other person comes to this country: to escape brutal and unsympathetic governments, for an opportunity to forge a better life for themselves and their families. Who doesn’t respect that? You should because, to reiterate, is the same basis and logic of why our ancestors came here. When there’s little to no enforcement of the border by agents and the Federal government than it’s not an invasion, it’s a porous border that needs to be secured. Nothing more, nothing less. And let’s not forget the barbaric attitudes of true xenophobia though that represents a minor constituency of the anti-amnesty crowd. These people are simply nuts and inhumane in dealing with what is a majority of little kids from Central America who listened to their government. Think for a second, if you can, that if you were in a situation where your country was a hellish pisshole and your government was saying to you, “Hey, the Land of Milk and Honey is overflowing and they will accept you no matter what!” wouldn’t you go? Of course you would! It’s human nature to follow the bread crumbs to a better life.
In this post, I only focused on the negative reactions from both sides of the aisle simply because it’s important to recognize the lack of objectivity on the issue and too much emotional pandering rather than tackling the issue from a logical stand point. We can’t solve this issue by being absolutely emotional about it. Yes, realize that these are human beings, but beyond that we need to figure something else out instead of amnesty. We need to secure our border, bring jobs back to this country and then figure out a better way to give incentives to undocumented people to becoming full fledged citizens in a fair and just way.
Why?
A resounding question that surrounds how we can give free, unabridged healthcare to illegal immigrants, but yet our veterans who fought for our country and contributed with honor are still suffering without proper treatment? It’s an excellent question that NEEDS to be answered by President Obama and his cohorts. However, since Obama hasn’t answered many questions surrounding the multitude of scandals during tenure as President of the United States of America I won’t hold my breath and simply file it under, “He doesn’t care about Americans.”
I could probably reiterate the plethora of platitudes of those angered by this issue, but what would be the point? It stinks more so than the pile of garbage we call politicians heaped in their seats patting themselves on the backs and giving themselves raises for doing nothing but dividing the Nation against itself. I don’t blame illegal immigrants for coming here. I mean who can blame them for wanting a better life?! No, I blame the Federal Government for not securing the border against illegal crossing into our country. The Federal Government is at the heart of all of this and President Obama to claim ignorance doesn’t work. Liberals didn’t let President Bush claim ignorance on issues, so why should Obama have free reign?
And lets not forget the whole Bergdahl issue which eclipsed the VA scandal within a day. Nice going, lets give back 5 horrible human beings in exchange for a Army deserter who bashed this country verbally. Once again, Obama can not claim ignorance on this issue. Remember, the Buck Stops at the Presidents desk. Imagine the furor caused if Bush said, “Well, I just learned about the August 2001 memo concerning probably terrorist attacks via airplanes through the news!” The Liberals would’ve been howling for blood more so than they were when they found out about the memo.
This Presidency under Obama has been the most embarrassing and most ridiculous Administration I have ever witnessed. Obama, no matter the clanging of the Shield of Hope and Change he had ran on previously he sure hasn’t held up his end of the bargain. Instead, he has invested taxpayers money in solar companies that failed, lavish parties, vacations galore, spying on Americans and gun running into Mexico. This is not what I imagined when I voted for Obama in 2008, but that’s the curse of imagining the world when reality gets in the way, you get let down by people who promise you golden roads and instead give you mud roads.
Now what? That’s the question, how do we fix this Nation that has a society in shambles where adults in positions of power act like spoiled rotten children and celebrities who out pace Nero and Caligula in their hedonism. All the while us, the serfs, the plebs, the proles, have to struggle daily in order to sustain our existence. Remember this the next time you or your children see the Kardashians, the Biebers, and every other swill chugging celebrity has their face plastered on your screen. Ask yourself,”Why?” Why do we care about the lives of celebrities? Why do we allow the Federal Government to stomp on our backs? Why have we allowed our society to go down into the depths of a cesspool? Why don’t we care about honor and our elders anymore? Ask these questions and try to answer them. That’s supposed to be your job as an ordinary American citizen.
Illegal Immigration, the Issue That Will Destroy Us
When the Roman Empire was in its infancy it held the policy of Romanizing immigrants into the Empire and securing the borders of the Empire to protect not only the culture of Rome but also it’s economic prosperity. The Romans knew that without cohesion in society with a common culture and especially a common language a prosperous Rome would not be a possibility. How can a society functional at all without the people having the ability to communicate properly? During the Empires waning years the policy became lax allowing unchecked immigration and not requiring the Romanization of those immigrants entering Roman society and the military. This eventually led to economic stagnation and attacks from within and without the Roman Empire causing the inevitable collapse of Roman society.
Lets explore some of the finer points of why amnesty is a bad idea with the back drop for this post being the Roman Empire.
Ill Communication
As I’ve stated earlier that the Romans needed a common language to pervade throughout the Empire in order to secure social cohesion and economic prosperity. Once that line of communication began to dwindle the Empire began to rot from within allowing for the borders to become insecure and porous. In 21st Century America we’re starting to see the lines of communication breaking down as more illegals are allowed in and without any encouragement to learn the language of their host country. One example happened in New Jersey recently when a woman didn’t speak English was supposedly falsely arrested. The unfortunate grab here is that the blame is being placed on the police for not having a Spanish interpreter and not the other way around. In other countries, including my fathers country of Uruguay, requires you to learn the language of the host country and tends not to attend to you with bilingual signs. Out of respect for that country and for your success in that country you tend to learn the language. It’s simply common sense. Without encouragement from our coddling government newly arrived immigrants, especially illegal ones, will not bother respecting this country and its language by learning it. Instead, the government will give handouts to illegals in order to secure future votes. He who gives amnesty, gains more power.
The African-American Question
Perhaps one of the most looked over and largely ignored issue concerns the African-American community and securing of employment. Right now, all Americans are suffering from lack of jobs and one those hardest hit by the lack of jobs are African-Americans. Once amnesty is given to illegals we’ll have even less jobs because now they are virtually legal and grab any job they wish taking a huge swath of available jobs away from the African-American community. How is that fair when African-Americans by birthright are Americans will lose jobs to those who came here illegally and were rewarded for their crime with amnesty and access to jobs? It’s bad enough American companies hire migrant labor for pennies when Americans could be doing those jobs, but for the impending amnesty that will overburden the already lack of jobs is simply a crime in it’s own right. Why are most African-American organizations not rallying the African-American community against this? Why are they remaining complicit with the coming attack on the black community? Perhaps, because they are too involved with the political oligarchy that runs this country. They are in the pockets of the political elite, bought and paid for with taxpayers money. This is the bleak future African-Americans face when amnesty occurs and the organizations set up to protect them are betraying them with their deafening silence. Rally and fight it or ignore it and suffer. Your choice.
A Slap in the Face to Legal Immigrants
In 1976, my father moved here from Uruguay, South America. He knew little English, but he did his best to learn on his own. When he met my mother she began teaching him more English and learned enough to get a nice paying job as a truck driver to provide for her and me. He applied for citizenship and in 1998 became a full fledged American citizen. He did everything right when he came here. He knew that in order to survive he had to learn English like the rest of his fellow immigrants. Now, what’s happening is a continuous slap in the face to legal immigrants who went about achieving their goals in this country via the legal path. Today, the illegal path seems to be the way to get what you want with little to no effort on the part of the illegal immigrant. Once amnesty happens they’ll set for a better future than my father and other legal immigrants were ever offered. Once again the problem of how fair this is in reality comes into question. How is it fair that those who didn’t care enough to learn the language and integrate into our society are given rewards while those who integrated and learned the language are swept aside as if they didn’t matter? Why is it that those who clamor for fairness the loudest are the least fair? As this happens the government simply alienates those who have already paid more than their fair share into the system whie those who haven’t paid at all will be greatly rewarded off the blood, sweat and tears of citizens, legal immigrant and natural born. This is not what America is about.
Conclusion
Americans need to stop being cowards and start having a civil discussion about this issue and not allow the politicians to decide our future for us. This isn’t their choice since the only way it’ll affect them is by grabbing more votes in the future. The rest of us will suffer the consequences much more harshly such as even shallower pool of jobs for us to choose from and a lack of communication. None of the propaganda both Democrats and Republicans spew is to be believed because it’s their political future on the line, not yours. We are simply serfs to them to obey their bidding without question and to accept what putrid pile of garbage they place before us whether it’s amnesty for criminals or an already failing government healthcare plan. They never have to suffer their choices like we have to suffer. How much are we Americans willing to endure before we stand up and shout, “Enough is enough!!”? If we don’t do it soon, it will be too late. The oligarchs will win this one and we will suffer dearly for it.
Amnesty for Illegals
After the apocalyptic few weeks we have had here in the States during the shutdown it is now time to get down to business. First order to deal with is not the ObamaCare failure and the ACA online marketplace website, but rather adding more people to a country that has a problem supporting the people it has already! In other words, Obama and the Democrats are going to try to slam through amnesty legislation for the illegals who are here. Yeah, that truly makes sense to add more employment woes to a country stifled by less than stellar job options. Part-time jobs do not cut it in a country where gas prices are still high, heating oil prices are high, and the impending avalanche of taxes heading our way due to ObamaCare. And you know what, the Democrats will get their way as has been shown by the weak GOP cowards who will now bend to the Democrat will. Anything the Liberals want they will get and it’s just a matter of time now until an amnesty bill is pushed through Congress and slapped on the desk of a smirking Obama to sign. Once that’s done the Democrats have their voting base and any Republican win will be a miracle.
Now, what Liberals don’t think about is the racial this will create not just from whites, but also from the already neglected black community. A majority of blacks are still unemployed and will remain so once the amnesty bill is passed. I would expect to see an increase in black on Hispanic crime. It has already begun when a small race riot occurred at a California high school just last year and there have been other incidents prior to that as well. Because of the Liberals inability to think racial tensions will increase putting us on the brink of an actual race war in this country. I don’t know about you, but I’m not up for a race war. I think this is what the Liberals want though so they can solidify, via martial law and emergency powers, their hold on power like the good little Stalinists that they are. But then again that would be accusing the Liberals of actually being intelligent and this they aren’t so maybe I’m wrong on my pseudo-conspiracy theory.
Liberals are birthing an era of insanity that is unparalleled by the faults of the Bush Administration. I thought the Bush Era was insane, however the last four to five years have been the most extreme in political craziness. I honestly fear for the future of this country with the things the Liberals are implementing throughout the country. I must ask how much more will all sane Americans take before they finally stand up with a voice louder than Yahweh on Mt. Sinai and say, “Enough!!!” All I hear as of late are small voices crying out to be heard, but aren’t by the elitists in the GOP who are supposed to be conserving the American Way of Life. Instead, the GOP are selling us all out and their souls for keeping their careers and they’ll sell us out once more when they pass the amnesty legislation with nothing more than a peep.