The DACA Debacle Aftermath

I've long believed that the actions taken by liberal/statists have set the tone which our nation now is witnessing with nearly everything happening in society today. This was their objective and we conservatives have stood by for most of it; feeling we were demonstrating our forgiving tolerance as Christians, and those who aren't religious, indifferent because they believed it wouldn't impact them.

Now look at how things are going... free speech is being protested, Christians are being persecuted and harassed to the point of targeting their businesses by using the court system which is liberal leaning, professors at colleges being threatened and intimidated to the point that we are now seeing what it must have been like during Hitler's rise to power in Germany back in the 1930s.

This article points more specifically to the DACA issue which currently is the topic of news these days. The sad thing is, if one looks at the statistics of our society's makeup, only ~20% are liberal, while the rest are either conservative, or independent if you break it down to the three commonly recognized parties.

Explaining Our Homeless Epidemic

I recently talked to a to a homeless man this morning and asked him how he ended up this way. 

He said, "Up until last month, I still had it all. I had plenty to eat, my clothes were washed and pressed, I had a roof over my head, I had TV and Internet, and I went to the gym, the pool and the library.

I was working on my MBA on-line. I had no bills and no debt.

I even had full medical coverage." 

I felt sorry for him, so I asked, "What happened? Drugs?

Alcohol? Divorce?" 

"Oh no, nothing like that." he said. 

 

"No, no ... I was paroled."

This may explain the increasing number of homeless nation-wide with the liberals and their early release from prison program…

Undocumented Citizen or Illegal Alien?

The leftist/statists are now using words and phrases to push their agenda of subtle persuasion on those who've snuck into this country across the border illegally to take advantage of our largess here in the U.S. Note the subject title for this post. 

That's right, they're now using the phrase undocumented citizens. Just like Nancy Pelosi has used undocumented Americans, and others previously have used undocumented aliens, the purpose of these leftist/statists is to expose the ignorant, bleeding-heart public to identify these Mexicans who've entered our country illegally with a more sympathetic view; as though they've done nothing wrong. 

These leftist/statists always play on the emotions of those who do not understand, or see the value in, using tough love to teach natural consequences to those who feel that anyone's entitled to the same benefits that others who actually are citizens already living here. "Honor and obey the law? Are you joking?", they'll say.

When I was an elementary student living in Tustin, CA, my second oldest brother got my parents to house a high school student from Tijuana, Mexico for a foreign exchange program in our home. They eventually sponsored his whole family to become naturalized citizens of the U.S. and Alberto eventually became an employee with Delta Airlines. So, if anyone reads this and thinks they can call me racist because I don't agree with their ideology of the current situation with illegals, bug off!

There's either the rule of law, or no rules at all!

This Vote Will Be Pivotal

The case from Colorado dating back to 2014 is going to the Supreme Court. It is the issue of whether a private business owner - in this case a baker - should be forced to conduct business which is against his/her religious convictions and be punished as a result for discriminating. After all, is not forcing someone to do work that is not consensual merely slavery?

Read this article on the details of the case and what it means to those who are of like mind and belief as a Christian when it comes to baking a cake for a gay/lesbian couple's wedding. As you know, there are other cases of similar circumstance which are going to be impacted by this court decision, whenever it comes before the Supreme Court.

We Christians can only pray that their decision will be upholding First Amendment rights and preserve freedom of conscience when it comes to conducting our business.

Food For Thought

Losing Faith In Trump Over Immigration

The immigration issue, Trump's #1 issue of his campaign to get elected, is waning and Ann Coulter's latest article explains why she's not happy. Speculation by various key individuals in the national dialog wonders what impact this will have on the mid-terms of next year and Trump's re-election if he doesn't deliver.

The Monstrous Elephant in the Room

For decades our public education system has pushed the mantra, "Every child ready for college". As a former educator I often wondered why this was the focus and just how well this would pan out down the road for our country.

Now, with the new conservative administration pushing a policy of providing jobs for the middle-class American who's unemployed, there seems to be a problem. There is currently a huge disconnect between unfilled jobs in the nation and unemployed as is pointed out in the recent interview on Meet the Press with Chuck Todd and Mike Rowe.

At about the 3:45 minute mark in the discussion, Chuck Todd asks:

“Why can’t we connect, because there are about I think 7 million unemployed – for the 6.2 million unfilled jobs?” Todd asked as Rowe laughed. “Is this an issue – I’ve had a theory that one of the problems we’ve had over the last generation is we’ve lacked domestic migration.”

 My immediate reaction, which I almost wanted to shout out at my computer screen was, "Because your president encouraged people to get onto to food stamps and SSI subsistence instead of re-educating, or retraining themselves, and leech off the government, you dumb ass!" DUH!!!

Watching this video will be edifying, to say the least, about the condition our nation is in when it comes to skilled labor. I've heard more than once, that, if our nation were put in a situation similar to the post Pearl Harbor today, our ability to gear up and shift the workforce into production of the needed materials to win a war, we would fail badly because the poor work ethic alone would not provide the necessary output.