Thanks for the civil response. Please discuss your position on illegal immigration, the wall, chain migration. Also he has tried spending cuts, the left has gone berserk stating he is targeting SNAP SCHIP and Medicaid. What say you?
My position on illegal immigration is that they are here for the most part because we as a society invited them here. They come because people are willing to pay them, and pay them much less than they would have to pay one of us. I put forth that over the years we as a society have given our tacit approval by our happiness at low price produce and etc.
My plan for dealing with immigration is a three part plan.
First, bring home 1/2 to 2/3 of the troops in Europe and station them along the southern border and let them defend our country for a change.
Second, go after companies that hire illegals, and go after them hard. A company or two going bankrupt because of the fines would be a good deterrent to keep others from doing it.
Third, pass a real guest worker program. Most of us still want our produce cheap, and there are those that are willing to work for less than you or I will. Let me come, just keep an eye on them and their employers. Make it so they do not have to sneak across.
Do those three things and no wall is necessary. I despise the very idea of a wall, it makes me think we are moving backwards, not forwards. Walls are what they put around castles in the middle ages. I also personally think that Trump wants it as it would be a permanent monument to him, which is something that is very important to him.
I do not have an issue with chain migration for legal visa holders with permanent work status, it is how a lot of immigrants came here in the 1800s and 1900s. It should not be automatic and it should be earned via a set number of years working and staying out of trouble. It would be a good incentive for people to work hard and do the right thing.
Trump did not want to cut overall spending, he wants to spend it on different things, so the end result is the same, more debt. My plan would be simple. An across the board 10% cut to every single agency in the Fed Govt to include the DOD and military. It would be ushered in over 5 years with each agency deciding what to cut. After the 5 years we see where we stand and we make further cuts in a more surgical manner.
My alternative plan gets me into a lot of trouble on this board, but if we are not going to cut spending we need to pay for what we spend. So, if we cannot agree to cut spending I think that in April the POTUS submits his budget, by July congress does their thing and then taxes are adjusted for the following year for the whole country to cover the cost of the spending in the budget plus 10% to pay down the debt. I do not personally want taxes raised, but to me it is the lesser evil between that and adding more and more and more debt for our children and grandchildren to deal with. I also believe that doing this would cause such an uproar that the voters would make sure that spending was cut the following year. We have hard choices to make and nobody is willing to do that.