To be a citizen or not to be a citizen, that is the question. It’s not whether or not they can vote. Citizens vote. Non-citizens don’t. You want to vote, become a citizen. That’s the only issue at hand here: whether you want to be a citizen or not. If not, don’t expect voting rights.
We cannot blur the citizen-immigrant line much more without it becoming just a figurative idea that is sometimes applied, but more often not. If immigrants are “loyal, patriotic, hardworking Americans,” which sounds just like what a citizen should be, they should become citizens! See how that works?
The path to voting for non-citizens is not a ballot deciding whether they can vote. It’s called citizenship.
If non-citizens can do everything citizens can, what’s the difference? If there is no such thing as a border, is there such thing as a country? If there’s no such thing as America, there is no such thing as an American. How would you like ceasing to exist? Does that fit in with your plans for the weekend?
Of course, if there was no such thing as America, we could all just kind of sift over into the World Union people are trying to form. I mean, the dollar’s dead anyway. We’re down the economic drain. Our President’s a screwhead. Our policies, parties, and culture is tearing at the seams. We’re teetering on the edge of a cliff in the middle of a tornado. It makes sense to just abandon everything, doesn’t it?
Heck no. We could have abandoned ourselves in the middle of the Revolution. We’re losing this thing anyway, and don’t know what to do if we win it. Let’s just give up. But we didn’t. Building the Transcontinental Railroad, settling the West, we could have given up. But we didn’t. Fighting the Civil War, we could have just said, “Screw the South.” But we didn’t. And we never will. No matter how jacked up things may seem, this is America, and always will be.
Although I admit sometimes things seem hopeless.
Take healthcare, for instance. Last week a leading manufacturer informed workers that their healthcare costs would rise partly because of the law. The law that was supposed to provide a competitive market by being something better, not making the other companies worse. Everyone who signed that bill (all of them Democrats) knew what they were signing (this time). No one in America knew, but that didn’t matter to them. Their constituents had a pretty good idea, though. All you had to do was watch the clips of Obama talking about ending private insurance. All you had to do was listen to him selling that law and you knew it was bogus. But what could we have done?
Let’s not go there right now.
We all knew that job-based coverage was pretty much screwed. We all knew that the government was going to dominate the market like Big Business in the 1800s and 1900s. We knew it was coming. But the worst part was knowing we were powerless, short of a rebellion, to stop it. This is not how it should be. We are not helpless onlookers. We ARE the government. We are what creates them, funds them, keeps them in existence. At any point in time we can end them. They seem to have forgotten that there are more of us than there are of them. And we don’t believe in gun control.
You can see the Democratic schemes at work. A Democratic governor laid out a plan for employers to shift workers into the taxpayer-subsidized healthcare plans that will be available (soon to be mandatory) in 2014. There’s the manufacturere who told workers their premiums would jump. According to Governor Phil Bredesen of Tennessee (a Democrat), "The economics of dropping existing coverage is about to become very attractive to many employers, both public and private." Does that sound like undermining private insurance to you?
They’re not even trying to hide it anymore. Either they’re very smug or know they’re screwed in a week and are just doing everything they can to screw us, too. Probably both.
Employers are considering shifting most or all healthcare costs to workers. Coupled with the economy (which is, we’re told, “improving,” which is another way of saying “it’s still pretty ugly and we don’t feel like telling you about the mess we’ve made”), this adds up (or subtracts) to the middle class being a little bit screwed. Just a tad.
The middle class has depended on job-based coverage for decades. 150 million people rely on it. There are, according to B. Hussein, 47 million uninsured Americans. I wonder if that number will be higher or lower in ten years.
That raises an interesting question. What will things be like in ten years? Will we be on the streets? Will we be dead from terrorist attacks? Will we have fling cars? How high will taxes be? Will America even still exist the way it does today? It’s sad that that is possible. That we can wonder. What will we be doing in ten years? Anything? Nothing?
Sometimes I wonder if it isn’t better to just start a mini revolution and start over. Keep the Constitution, keep the system, keep the bare legal necessities of survival, keep the core of our society, the stock market, that kind of thing. Scrap everything else.
Of course, the world economy would plummet. You probably can’t even pull something like that off. Maybe you don’t keep anything but the Constitution. Maybe you don’t even keep that (though you’d hopefully model the new one on it). Hopefully you do it right.
Think about it. You’re painting a picture and it starts to rain. Drop after drop hits the paper until the picture is a runny mess. Do you keep painting? Do you take it inside, let it dry, and paint over it? Do you pull out a new piece of paper?
I don’t know what’s right, or what’s going to happen. But I feel like something is going to happen. Something big. A storm is about to break.
All I ask is that we’re ready. That we cling to our money, guns, religion, kids, and freedom. That we never forget who we are.
We are America.
And Obama, nothing is ever going to change that.
And we’re not apologizing.
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