Quote: (10-20-2011 05:05 PM)Pusscrook Wrote:
Quote: (10-20-2011 05:01 PM)G.L.Piggy Wrote:
But this is now an intractable mess that we really shouldn't have to be dealing with in the first place. But that's the nature of liberalism - it forces you to deal with "manufactured" problems. Sort of like the single motherhood problem foisted on us by the Sexual Revolution and feminism. The true solution to not having to handle poorly developed bastard children is to not encourage single motherhood through social acceptance or government assistance. But since Pandora's box was opened, the frame has shifted and we now operate as if single mother households were always the norm.
The way I see it, offspring are being used as pawns to advance another progressive agenda. It's quite sick when you think about it.
Come on Piggy, tell us what you would do.You're the President now.
Being President involves having to balance principle with politics. But if politics were somehow thrown out the window...I guess I'd have a multi-prong approach.
1. Allow people that were educated in U.S. colleges (not at subsidized tuitions, we want the wealthiest and brightest from other countries, not the dregs) greater ability to obtain visas and citizenship. More visas for STEM graduates, especially for those who want to start businesses. Doctors too.
2. We can use that political bone throw to push a closed border agenda. Quid pro quo. A fence won't work. Most illegals come into this country on temporary visas and just overstay their time allotment. We need harsher penalties on employers who are caught employing illegals. The problem there: how do you figure out if someone is actually an illegal?
3. Propaganda war. Focus on a lot of the people who are Occupying Wall Street and point out to them that a lot of domestic unemployment is due to the cheap labor coming up through Mexico and Central America. We have to break that illogical double standard held by many liberals and progressives - that they can be internationalist sympathizers while also being mad about fewer job opportunities.
4. A Constitutional Amendment that the offspring of two undocumented residents cannot be considered a birthright citizen. This entails more regulation of some kind, but that is the game we're playing now.
5. Reallocate some military spending towards policing our borders. Fingerprint culprits to put into a national database that will be used in the future. Fingerprinting these people will prevent them from trying to gain employment in the future.
6. Legalize marijuana. Crime from drug cartels is killing northern Mexican industry and forcing many of the citizens there to seek employment in the U.S. The cartels are largely a function of the weed bottleneck coalescing at our border. A few cartels are fighting for territory to enter that black market. Legalize it and the cartels lose most of their power.
I think my proposal has enough of a mix of conservative, radical, and moderate prescriptions to keep the voting masses thoroughly confused. Which means I might have a chance.