Who’s My Enemy
July 23, 2009Would someone please tell me who my enemy is. It is clear that our country is being destroyed from within and that something must be done about it, but what, there’s the rub, it is NOT nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune but whom do I take up arms against.
Illegal aliens are bankrupting the safety net our government has in place for people who have fallen on hard times so one might say that it is they who are the enemy. But who are They? I am in WalMart the other day and I see a Hispanic family. Are they my enemy? Are they citizens just as I am? Or are they here illegally? Okay, they are speaking Spanish so it’s a good bet that they are illegals but that does not make them my enemy, I want a better life for myself so why shouldn’t they. If the economic situation between the U S and Mexico were reversed you can bet I’d be heading south.
So I think it’s the system that allows them to stay here and feed at the public trough. Yep, that’s my enemy and I’m going right out and shoot it today. Uh, can anybody tell me what the system looks like or if it has any vulnerable spots. Okay, I see my problem now. The system is not any one person or place. It is in fact a huge, nebulous something. It has grown all out of proportion from what seemed like a good idea at the time (like so many government programs) and now is so diffuse and wide spread that it encompasses the entire country like cancer cells through metastasis destroying the host body. One can not destroy the malignant cells without also killing the healthy in the process.
A friend recently visited the hospital to be treated for an infection that occurred because of a nipple ring. He is disabled from some degenerative illness that I can’t pronounce and is on public assistance. Now my thought is that he is an idiot for getting the ring in the first place but it’s a semi free country and it was his choice. But now you and I must pay his medical expenses not only for the illness which occurred through chance but also for that which happened through his own choice.
He is, as I said a friend and regardless of his participation in the system that is destroying our country I am hardly willing to shoot him so this returns us to my original question of “who’s my enemy.
I think that your question is easily answered; if the people who were making the laws, started enforcing the laws, then illegal immigration would not be a problem.
I have no problem rounding up illegal immigrants and transporting them back to their country of origin; what is the sense of having laws if we are not going to enforce them?
Keeping that in mind, can I pick and chose what laws that I want to follow? Can law enforcement also pick and chose what laws they want to enforce?
Whether it is intended, or unintended, the easy answer is, Congress is the enemy.
Assuming the economy does not completely tank…
As far as your friend, I believe we could keep a public paid plan for the disabled; we are still a compassionate nation. I would prefer if the federal government was not administering it, but there is no reason why we couldn’t keep something like that alive.
However, when health care is tax-payer funded, there must be some budget restraints, and that is why we “do not” want a public plan for the general public.