WHY ILLEGALS

Why do we have so many illegal immigrants in the United States?

Stingy congresses have starved the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for many years;

1.   Low pay, poor working conditions, not nearly enough officers meant that illegal immigrants came in droves with no officers to check on them.

2.  Few U.S. citizens will do the hard work harvesting grapes, artichokes and other products.

3.  People from Mexico and Central American countries came to the U.S. willing to do the hard work.

4.  Immigration officers were too understaffed to follow up on immigrants who overstayed their allotted time in the U.S.

5.   Many of the illegals got jobs, had families, paid taxes and applied for citizenship.

Our inept congresses and a racist president are the root causes of the present crisis and the inhumane treatment of people from North and South America.

Controlled Capitalism

Capitalism depends on acquiring more money, using the earth’s resources for gain and greed, the idea that the more you get the more you want. Capitalism creates profit and poverty.

Controlled capitalism means that government puts controls on banking, real estate, and business to insure competition and prevent gross profit making. We had those controls starting with Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The Reagan and Clinton presidencies whittled away those controls so that few of them exist to curb the rampant capitalism of today.

Wrong or Right

I believe in America WRONG and RIGHT. The present noisy slogan of conservatives is “I believe in America right or wrong.” I prefer realism to hokum.

Racism, persecution of immigrants and guns all over the place is wrong

Efforts of science, research and extraordinary acts of charity are right

Lack of medical are for all, Americans homeless, hungry and in poverty is wrong.

Space travel, industrial innovation and a good way of life for many is right.

Gross salaries, income inequality and luxury for its own sake is wrong.

Capitalism that creates poverty is wrong.

That is enough for now. I am an American and can live with ambiguities