Musings of a Dumb Ass

Musings of a Dumb Ass........... Why do we wait till things are out of control before we make a move to correct it? I'd rather not mirror current headlines if I'm going to Dumb Ass about anything to do with government, preferring instead to marvel at the way we behave and how we look at 'things' with an attitude of observance from afar. But then sometimes things that are in public debate tug at me till I make an ass of myself mostly because I'm too simple to get wrapped up in the complex way those smarter than I see an issue. What's got me shaking my head today is the immigration issue and the way those in power are addressing it. As usual, from where I sit it appears to me the ones elected to deal with issues are unable to get a handle on the problem or show an ability to do anything other than blabber the same balderdash common to their kind. The numbers are the first factor to consider. The heart of the issue is about Mexicans and those farther south. Best guesses say that between 11 and 12 million are currently in the country. This in itself makes the issue one that is just too big to make a snap decision that has even a remote chance of being effective. A good question to ask is who's hiring them? A better question is why aren't there more citizens available for the jobs they're doing? More so each day everybody's hiring them, and doing so because no one else is standing in line wanting the job that needs to be done. So where are all the citizens? Have we produced an economy so huge that there's more jobs than people? No. Welfare has made it possible to exist quite comfortably without working and subsequently has dried up the available pool of workers who would otherwise find a job attractive as opposed to the hunger induced by the fruits of unemployment and the absence of handout. When I was a child, public welfare was a companion at my house most of the time. It was looked down on by your peers and those in the community and I was ashamed at the thought of anyone knowing that was the way we survived and at first chance I got away from that environment to never participate in such a losers game again. But something happened along the way to my old age. Welfare became respectable and totally acceptable as a way to live. We gave it lots of different names and even convinced ourselves we were entitled to such an abomination. No one gives a second thought to a child taking advantage of a 'lunch program' at public school. Medicaid insurance cards is a duty for responsibility in health care by young and adult alike. Food stamps are given out like credit cards and the users proudly separate items not covered and pay for them with cash at the grocery store. Drugs are handed out as prescriptions on every corner and if their government checks get squeezed to hard to come up with a co-pay we can't go to sleep at night because of the guilt we must carry for those more unfortunate. We make sure transportation is available to those who fit the criterion and furnish drivers and vehicles to take them to the doctors and much of the time stand by till they're ready to go back home. We also maintain staffs of medical and domestic personel to do in home services. We now proudly pay taxpayer funds to family members, grandparents, sisters brothers, nieces etc. to keep and take care of the children of children who birth them then dump them to carry on with their jolly time. All the while, as America goes to hell, the Mexican who is so familiar with poverty but less familiar with welfare is thankful to providence for the chance to go to work at anything available and will show up and prove his appreciation by doing an honest days labor, while the welfarers look down their noses in disapproval at someone who is desperate for survival. I think the fact that someone other than an American has come to my country in such large numbers and brings with them the problems that are sure to be, is a testament to the sheer idiocy and irresponsibility of those who should be reporting to the jobs the illegals are doing each day instead of basking in the wonderfulness of the riches bestowed on the unappreciative who have come to expect something for nothing. If things should suddenly change and Americans start leaving the welfare couches for work, we then will be faced with the dilemna of actually sending the 12 million back home, and it can be done. All we have to do is stack ten of them in each of 1,200,000 toyota vans driven by the out of work auto makers and social workers who after finishing the delivery south of the border can report to the nearest meat processing plant and go to work......................