I greatly prefer the second solution and would love to see ALL forms of welfare removed. The problem is that there are so many free-loaders voting for even more free stuff that it is unlikely we can ever turn off the spigot.

Quote "God I just wish those very few who attempt to move things in the right direction had enough support to be successful."

56 Men who were in a minority met several times to discuss a document. 55 had the courage to sign it even though it likely meant there deaths and the deaths of all those they loved. 3 men pushed the creation of the document and the support for it from the other 52 through.

350 men met to create a document that was neither popular or desired by the majority of people. 3 Men wrote 85 papers to convince the public of its necessity and that the government it created would not become tyrannical. (To bad they did not fully define the philosophy rather than write solely to convince of the necessity)

In both cases 3 men drove it, 3 men made it happen. We do not need a large body of people, we need a handful of people of ability, financial resource and strong mind. This is the only thing that has ever changed the world, a company, a country or a city. Its the only thing that ever will.

hear! hear!

I am only a second generation American. My grampa was born in Austria. My great grampa came here to work on the rail road. He did not get papers, he just saved up enough money to get here and then worked his but off.

You will never stop the flood of people attempting to find a way to eat, to make a better life for themselves, so long as we have a better life to offer.

If we provide the free better life, we will attract those who want it. If we offer the work hard and keep what you earn (IE protect property rights) we will attract those that want to earn it.

We will attract and get one of these two groups of immigrants so long as they can have a better life here than in the gun and drug cartel controlled countries south of us.

We either become just like them to solve the problem or we do away with the giveaway programs to solve the problem. The first solution will happen at some point if we fail to use the second.

This is basically my feelings on it. Immigrants make the country financially strong... when was the last time you saw a white person picking lettuce in California... I'm sorry, but it doesn't happen... How about the "Italian chefs" at your favorite Italian restaurant... sorry, they speak Spanish. American kids are unemployed because we coddle them, they are not fiercely independent and competitive like previous generations and they have no job skills.

Education is the problem in the US... its not immigration. Jobs go to the best qualified that want to work... sure some personal contacts can help, but inevitably, you don't stick around if you are useless and stop blaming others for self-inadequacy.

With the exception of American Indians, none of us would be here without immigration. Maybe some policies... like limiting the amount of resettlement in some of our already-overcrowded cities... North Dakota is begging for workers in the oil fields... maybe we need to rethink how we "allow" new immigrants to settle, and where.. every other country does that.

However, most of all on my humble opinion list... We should adopt a reciprocity of hostility policy toward originating countries and HOW THEY TREAT AMERICAN EXPATS.... America is an expensive place to spend retirement, and many, including myself, would like to retire abroad. Our immigration policy needs to reflect how Americans are treated if we want to immigrate or live temporarily in their countries... Costa Rica.. Check... Mexico? It can be brutal... I say we adjust accordingly. Canada? It's actually a little hard to immigrate to Canada. You need to show 2 years of medical records, take 3 or 4 physicals by Canadian doctors, prove you have $200,000 in liquid assets (in Canadian securities or currency) above the cost for housing, etc. Do you really want your IRA to have Canadian stocks?

The root of the problem is this: Latent Racism... I always like to say.. "What did the immigrant do to you? Did it really stop you from getting an education, or was it your own C's & D's & F's?". "Are you really that pissed off that a kid of an immigrant got a $1200 CalGrant and you didn't? How much did that go for your $10,000 / year college?" Please... it's a payment or two at the end of paying the student loans anyway.. Better yet, go in the military and get a $150,000 GI Bill (I did, I got my BS & my MBA), I'm also not in competition for any job from any immigrant as a result.

We are better than that as a people. Even better, immigrants by culture are hostile to regulation and lets take the case of Mexicans... about 99.9% Catholic and very family oriented... hmm.. instead of being hostile towards them, after they jump through the hoops of citizenship, lets educate them on the finer points of how their culture aligns with the judeo-christian values of conservatism... and how high taxes and inflationary policies threaten their children and their later years after a life of very hard work.

The enemy is socialism, liberal "progressive" politics, social security, medicare, medicaid, and all the other social programs that soak up 90% of what is left of tax revenue after defense.

Now let me be extremely clear - there are many cases where we need to be very crystal-clear on our immigration policy. There are real threats to the sovereign soil of the US along our Southern border... and that is in the form of Mexican drug cartels, kidnapping gangs, etc. But painting all Mexicans with the same brush is like saying that all gun ownership is wrong because of a few nuts in schools (that tend to be democrat voters anyway it seems like). To combat the drug trade, I'm totally fine with using much more lethal force than we do... we are stepping down the drone program overseas... seems like we will have a few spare that can be deployed, complete with hellfire & maverick missiles. I have no problem with that. As soon as their first foot comes out of the Rio Grande, I'm good with blowing them into pixie dust. While we are at it... some "regime change" in Mexico would do more for limiting illegal immigration than any piece of paper ever would.. people flee Mexico because of the corruption, the inevitability of poverty, and the gangs. Getting rid of all of the above, would do nothing but improve the quality of life for the residents, and they probably wouldn't want to leave.

Usually listen to his podcast the next day. I will look forward to hearing it.

It's funny you should mention this because Glenn Beck said the same thing on the radio this morning. Our problem with immigration comes from our welfare state. If we stopped the handouts then the problems with immigration would mostly go away.

I can see your point; however, as long as the government is in the business of providing for those who do not provide for themselves. Then we have a problem of people flooding into this country and then not providing for themselves.

It is an either stop the flood or stop the payments and the real problem is that the Democrats want to increase both while the Republicans refuse to actually do anything about either.

God I just wish those very few who attempt to move things in the right direction had enough support to be successful.

Compromise so we can "move forward"?
Mike Huckabee is an honorable man. There is no place in Washington for honorable men.
You must be a very good liar to be successful in today's politics.
I am hopeful that Ted Cruz stands his ground and continues what he is doing.
Liberalism is destroying our country.
I really like Rand Paul.

I will vote for the candidate that I see as the lesser of two evils and continue to pray for a decent candidate.

We are a land of convenient laws. We do not enforce the laws we have. No news there. Too many laws and regs but that's for another time. If we were to do amnesty it would not be enforced either after it was signed. I say let it alone until we can address it with a conservative majority and if need be, another president. Ignore the libs.

This is a rather different opponion from most people I know, but I will share it here.

The immigration problem does not exist. Let me state that again so there is no misunderstanding. There is no immigration problem in the US.

Our long standing policy has been come, join us, be part of us. That needs to still be the case. Changing that is simply going to create an even larger problem.

The problems occurring around immigration are not caused by immigration policy. Again no immigration problem.

The problems occurring around immigration only exist because the federal and state governments went into the business of being a bread winner for its citizens. That is not quit accurate. More accurately because federal and state governments went into the business of being a mob boss as they attempted to eradicate the competition. They get there money from blackmail and extortion using the IRS as the weapon and jail time as the threat. So to be totally accurate, the problem with immigration exists only because the government became a thief and the immigrants are capable of being the recipients of the stolen booty.

If we want to fix immigration we simply do away with a system of theft from the financially successful and reward for the financially dependent and we would get the kind of immigrants we want. The ones we don't want would have no reason to come.

Fix the root problem and the discussion on amnesty would dissolve on its own.

Once again their frontrunner is someone that will not win. Likely not even with the Obama vacancy. If he did win likely wont make any difference over whomever the dems run.

I still vote. Even if I write in "A Box of Dirt" to insure that I have noted that a box of dirt would be an improvement over all the candidates offered.

It will never happen but would it not be awesome to see a political race between two dirt bags where both of them lost to "A Box of Dirt."

Who or what party would you vote for?

If the Republicans "Stand down" as Senator Cruz puts it, they will have a much tougher time winning the senate. Voters in the tossup states won't have a clear idea of the difference between the Democrat and Republican candidates.