Reagan was the greatest President of our time for those that weren’t deadbeat losers. Explains quite a bit about you.
Reagan tripled the debt and demolished the middle class with union busting and hyper-inflation. Not sure how you think this is a good thing.
Head Possum Catcher sure pays better than whatever resume writing job you have in Chicago.
Unlikely. My income was six figures the last two years (even though it wasn't limited to just resume writing). With my wife's income added in, we are doing very well.
I don’t have a problem with kids being kids, but I do question their sensibilities. They can vote as well, which I know thrills people like you. The less sensible and informed the better.
Or they are just voting in their own self-interest without the racism, misogyny, and homophobia that infects older generations.
You went from Bill Gates to $400k/yr. That is a HUGE jump. I sincerely hope your envious, deadbeat mentality isn’t the prevailing one when I get to retirement age.
I guess to people like you, someone making $400k is ultra-wealthy, but it is all a matter of perspective. When I was fresh out of college making very little money, I assumed a person making 100k/yr would be driving a Ferrari and living in a mansion on a golf course. What could they possibly be doing with all that extra money per month when I was living on peanuts?
Not at all. The purpose of Social Security was to be a safety net. If you made 400K in your worklife, you didn't need a safety net. It's ridiculous that the government is sending you a check. We need to 1) Raise the SS Cap and 2) Means-test it so that it is only going to those who need it. oh, yeah, and 3) Allow more legal immigration to make up for the kids who were never born to replace the boomers who are retiring en-masse right now.
We certainly have the resources to deter them. The alternative is to allow everyone to walk in to any store and take whatever they like.
Sure. Tighter security. Detectors at the door. Lock up the high-value items that are actually worth the trouble of stealing. What everyone figured out hasn't worked is locking up a kid for a year at $30,000 to the taxpayers, ruining his employment prospects for life, over a $40.00 package of hair dye.
If you were practical you would be in favor of a border wall, which is the epitome of practicality. As far as rewards, many illegals aren’t coming here for the opportunity to work, they are coming here for the gifts that sanctuary cities and Democrats provide them(healthcare, money, housing, etc.). Believe it or not, those are huge incentives for people to come to the US, particularly those coming from impoverished countries.
Sorry, man, most of them want to work. They have better work ethics than most Americans. A wall is just stupid. If someone has travelled 2000 miles to get here over mountains and through deserts, they aren't going to be deterred by a wall that can be defeated with $200.00 worth of tools from the Home Depot.
Here's what we need to do if you are serious about curtailing this.
1) Establish a national biometric ID system based on Social Security, so everyone knows who they are hiring. You can't get a job or benefits without said ID.
2) Create a Guest-worker program to fill the legitimate labor needs of companies requiring low skill jobs Americans don't want to do. Such permits will be limited (two years, only renewable after a 1 Year return to your home country).
3) Go after the white people (and yes, it's almost exclusively white people) who hire undocumented laborers who don't have the above. Not just the sweat shop owner, but the clown who hires a truckload of day-laborers from the Home Depot parking lot when that DIY project turns out to be harder than Chip and Joanna made it look. The Rich asshole (and I always love going after the rich!) who can't be bothered to raise their own spawn, so they've hired Lupe who is just like a member of the family they don't pay taxes on.
4) Set up a 1-800 number to report people who are hiring undocumented laborers. A few visits from La-Migra and a few fines should straighten them out.
5) Here's the big one- Adequately staff the asylum system with people who can evaluate cases quickly. It should NOT take 4 years to get an asylum hearing.
6) Stop a foreign policy that creates refugees to start with. Most of the current batch are not coming form Mexico, they are coming from Central America or Venezuela, where our policies have caused untold economic and political misery.
It is in no way practical to allow anyone and everyone to come into our country.
Well, since no one actually suggested that, a good thing.
What we DO need are more immigrants to prop up the entitlement programs listed above.