Some sane ideas on immigration

Dealing With Illegal Aliens, from a sane person’s point of view (non-politician)

We have millions of illegal aliens. Attempting to deport of all them would be a major waste of time, nearly impossible, and would hurt many industries.

Allowing them to stay defeats our laws and encourages more law breaking. It also could allow people to enter this country who are opposed to its principles and could possibly engender terrorism.

Solution:

1. Do not round up illegals and send them home.
2. Require all illegals, including infants and children, to be fingerprinted and eye-scanned. These identification measures will be used to verify their status while crossing the border, for entry into schools, clinics, employment, in the event of incarceration, and in any other circumstance where identify needs to be established.
3. Children born to illegals will not be give citizen status.
4. One illegal in each nuclear family which consists only of mother and or father and their offspring, of one generation must have a job. If the job is lost, the illegal must get another job in under six months. If the job is not obtained, the family must leave the country.
5. Illegals are not eligible for Social Security unless they have put into the system for a minimum of 20 years. This is double the citizen’s requirement, but they are not citizens.
6. Illegals are not eligible for medicare.
7. Illegals are recognized as citizens of a foreign country. As such, they are not afforded the same rights as citizens. They are to be treated respectfully and decently. But, if they choose not to obey the laws of this country, they, and their immediate family will be deported immediately.
8. Children of illegals, whether citizens by birth or not, will be expected to attend school. They will be expected to obey all rules, learn English, complete all required work, and act as visitors should act, with decorum, modesty and self-control. If these children cause trouble in school, the family will be deported. The only exception to this would be if the problem is caused due to serious harassment that has been documented with the local authorities.
9. Illegals can apply for citizenship just the same as anyone else. Once they have obtained citizenship, the rules governing Social Security and medicare will be enforce as if they were regular citizens and the time limit for Social Security will be applied as for a normal citizen.
10. Illegals must remember they are here as guests. They do not have the rights of citizens and just as most other countries, if they do not conduct themselves in a seemly manner, they, and their immediate family, will be required to leave.
11. Illegals must register when they move or change jobs. If they do not register within one month, they will deported unless they can prove that it was physically impossible for them to do so. When an illegal loses his job, he must report it immediately.
12. Employers who do not check the status of ALL workers will be subject to fines.
13. Regions must have clinics available for all people, illegal and citizens alike. These clinics would have rotating doctors who would be eligible for a tax break for volunteering.
14. Build a fence - all those entering the country must enter through a station that will have a fingerprint and eye-scanner. This should take seconds and protect our border agents.
15. Encourage American citizens to become bi-lingual by requiring foreign languages in school starting in kindergarten. (It is proven that languages can be acquired more easily before the age of 11) The purpose for this is to allow the children of citizens to be able to participate in the world community and know what others are saying. However, English should be the language of this country.

Lunar Eclipse

Did you all see the lunar eclipse tonight? It was so fantastic! It has been total for nearly an hour now, and the moon looks like a planet and it is so beautiful. The creations of God are so spectacular we can barely imagine it all. We have been studying stars and planets in Science and I had the students create their own solar system, but nothing is as beautiful as the real things. Oh, my, I am overwhelmed.

Taxes

There comes a time when the people of a country say, this is enough. Sure, there are many things we could do forcing other people to give us their money. Oh, we say, you earn a lot more than I do, why shouldn't you pay more than me in taxes. Should they pay more than us for groceries? Maybe rich people should have to pay $15.00 for a gallon of milk? No, fair is fair. There is a philosophy in our country that people, like Romney, are bad cause they make a lot of money. Yes, but he also employed a lot of people, he was a job creator. But even the Republicans saw him as a bad guy cause he made money. No, that is the American dream, to work hard and not be punished for your work. And if you happen to have the skills, dreams, and goals that allow you to make more money, should you be punished? Not if you do it morally, legally and ethically. I got this story from a friend. It is tongue in cheek, but I think we forget that the rich should be treated fairly too. And I hope if I ever achieve rich that I will be treated fairly. Enjoy the story.

TRADITIONAL VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

MODERN VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, "It's Not Easy Being Green."

Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.

Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer! The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.

Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients. The ant loses the case.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2008.

Election will be hard

So now who do we vote for. I really do like many things about Huckabee except for his bias against Mormons. And if he is so biased against Mormons, what about Lutherans, Jews, Catholics, Muslims, 7th Day Adventist, Jehovah's Witnesses? Does he just see his own kind as acceptable? The rest of us are what, chopped liver? He was so underhanded in his contempt for Romney and his beliefs that he scares me. So does McCain. I have been comparing the four main candidates. All are against tax increases, but Clinton and Obama have policies that would require serious tax increases. I guess the important thing is to get a very conservative Congress in to block anything that will give government more control over us, our money, our children, and our lives.

Thoughts from President Hinckley's Funeral

As I watched this funeral I thought, we are to follow in Jesus Christ's footsteps. But he lived so long ago, and the New Testament barely touches on his life. We can look to someone today, someone like President Hinckley, and knowing he walked in Christ's footsteps, that if we walk in his footsteps, we will be following the Savior. His attitude of do your best could be a good place to start. Get up, be active, be doing something useful and good. Read good books, sing, wave, smile, love your spouse, children and family. Find a good spouse and respect them. Reach out to those who are not members of our faith, even if they never will be. Live life, and wear out your life in service to the Lord.

I couldn't possibly have understood this when I was young like I do now. When we look back on decades of life we see that the seemingly insignificant things we do over and over actually weave the pattern of our lives. And if those small and simple things are good, we will end up having lived a fulfilling life -- and that is a great thing! Marjorie Hinckley