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Published – Brownsville Herald 8/20/2006
“Truth – Honor and “The American Way”. These were the seeds of the “Boomer” belief system though they were not always followed faithfully. They were ideals that were strived for.
A widely touted part of “Today’s American Way” is the “rule of law” which is often pointed to as of supreme importance. Unfortunately, it is found important only when it is convenient.
As one example just look at the immigration debacle! Decades of political interference in existing law and regulation, as well as the ways laws were applied, has resulted in a supremely unworkable system that threatens the one most important job of government – that of ensuring peace and order. We have neither today. What do our Democratic-Republican rulers do about it? They find ways to enrich their friends with unworkable solutions such as a wall to nowhere on one side, and even more spending on things like government employment centers for temporary workers, more public programs to support an even bigger government in chosen congressional districts on the other side. The employment center in particular seems a bit ludicrous when we have 10 million or so “temporary workers and families” without any papers, that all but 5% or so, have found jobs, relocated from their place of origin to a place near the job and are pursuing happiness. They did all that without government interference. Could it be that these folks are demonstrating “The American Way” better than us natives? More »