Ok...here is a solution to both problems, drugs and illegals.
All the druggies go to Mexico, this will include the gang-bangers, the hip hop artists, the rich yuppies and the crack whores. Then with all the positions open from their absence, allow the illegals here to take up their vacancies. Wait...no that won't work, we will still have a bunch of druggies moochin off the system.
FACT: Crossing the border without proper documentation (ie jumping the fence) is an ILLEGAL action and should be punished for it.
FACT: We have too many bleeding-heart, Liberal pussies out there who would rather feed the illegals instead of punish them.
FACT: This country is becoming the cesspool of life. We have more debauchery, more crime, more alternative lifestyles, more hatred, more drugs, more treehuggers, and more people against eating meat than any other country on the planet.
Does this make us diversified...yes and no. We are so divided that the very principals we founded this country on are being hacked up to suit everyone's needs. Why has this country gone to the sewer? It started with the equal rights movement. Soon everyone needed equal rights. Martin Luther King had a dream, and after he succeeded, that dream has turned into a nightmare. If he had any idea what has come from his "dream", I truly believe he would be the first one to speak out AGAINST it.
I support his efforts, but with his efforts, come extremists who believe that since they got equal rights, we should too. So GLAD was formed, and equal rights for gay americans...wait, if they are american, they have the same rights as we do..but that isn't enough. We have to change the constitution just to suit their needs.
Then we have the ACLU...freekin pinko commies. If one person out of 100,000 has a problem with "God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, they go on the warpath, saying that it is unconstitutional to have to make a child say "under God" if they don't believe in Him. But far be it for me to have a problem with one parent at my son's school having a problem with a Christmas program. That bitch thought it would be better to be a holiday program or a winter program. All this freakin separation of church and state. All that "separation of church and state" means is that the government and the church cannot rule as one. A Christmas program is hardly ruling the government.
Which brings us back to the problem at hand. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WANTING SPECIAL TREATMENT RATHER THAN BONING UP TO THE RESPONSIBILITY OF BECOMING A US CITIZEN. I am sorry, but if you do something illegal here in the US, it used to be that you would be jailed for the wrong doing. Now it is becoming apparent that all the fruits and liberals that made this country the way it has become, have decided that illegals are people too. NO THEY ARE ILLEGAL! You give them rights and all other illegals out there will want the same.
You don't hear Canadians bitching about not getting the same rights as we do. If they want it bad enough, they will get the proper documentation to become a US citizen. You don't hear of the Asian's or the Middle Easterner's leaving their jobs to support the Mexican immigrants. Afterall, they are immigrants too. Why is that. Why were the chinese food places open and the colleges were still filled with the other immigrants...why was it only the mexicans who marched? If this was a march for immigrant rights, shouldn't the others (asian, mid east, canada, russian, poland, austrailian, german, english, irish, scottish...I could go on), why didn't they join in the march. Because they respect what this Country has to offer, and they are trying to better themselves to become a bonified US Citizen.
I am tired of typing. This whole thing is a moot point. This whole country has been steadily going downhill since that president got a blow job in the oval office, got caught, lied about it in front of a grand jury, and still remained president to full term. If he could get out of that, then our country is already in the shitter.
They don't even believe they are illegal, they just are immigrants. If they don't have the documentation allowing them to be in this country legally, they are illegal immigrants.
Joe, you know I had a very similar thought the other day after watching news footage of a murder that occurred in rural Nebraska. A husband and wife in their 60's were shot dead in their farm house for no apparent reason. It turns out that their nephew was upset that they would not rent a house to him. It made me think "Why has our country experienced such significant problems during the past 40 years?"
Of all the problems you listed I think violence in America is what bothers me most. I know that illegal immigration causes numerous problems, but when the citizens of our own country are killing each other for cars, money, etc. it makes me wonder what has gone wrong, and how can we fix it? I don't share your opinion regarding some of the reasons for "moral decline" that you posted, but I do share the same sentiment.
Maybe what makes America great also makes for its downfall. Our strong sense of independence seems to have crossed the line into selfishness, and we appear to have no regard for other's rights. I wish I had the answer but I don't.
BTW, violence and many of the other concerns you listed were increasing exponentially before President Bubba got a hummer
I agree with the later posts. I'm doing a report on Political Correctness for a class right now and it seems a lot of the problems ARE stemming from the Equal Rights type movements. I am FULLY supporting of all equal rights for all people everywhere on Earth, but people take it too far. I agree that women, blacks, purples, yellows, greens, and everyone of all sizes and shapes should have the same rights as everyone else, the SAME, not more or less. Still, we need to have tolerances and patience for other people and not automatically feel we're better than them.
The whole Political Correctness thing irks me in the sense that we're losing our rights and it's becoming socially acceptable... PC is sort of lumped in here, but it's another issue entirely. So I'll leave that at that.
Most of these issues will just never get resolved because people are just not open minded enough or concerned with comprimising and RESOLVING the issue, they are more concerned with making a stink over something.
Illegal aliens aren't all digging ditches and picking crops out of the ground. A large number of immigrants get a fake SS# and a work permit and work in industries and businesses. Many of them even make a respectable wage. What it means to our government is that they're paying taxes, but won't claim themselves for obvious reasons. So the government gets free money, no refunds necessary in a tax bracket that typically gives all or the majority of the money back assuming it were a legal citizen. It's a lot of the reason that we had no motivation to boot them in the first place.
They aren't taking our jobs. They're being given them illegally. It isn't right, but the government isn't going to bail us out of it. It's up to us and always has been.
If you don't want your job threatened by an illegal alien, don't whine about it. The best person for a job is the one that will work hard and more importantly will work smart, legal or not. That's all your employer is going to care about. If an illegal immigrant thinks he can walk into my office and do my job better than I can, he's more than welcome to come try. Nobody is taking my job because I've worked hard to attain the knowledge and the experience to be as good as I can possibly be in my field of work. The reason this country became the superpower it is is because we work(ed) harder than anyone in the world to get where we are today.
If we were capable of enforcing a law requiring us to pay illegal immigrants as we would anyone else, it kills the incentive to hire them in the first place unless they'll do the job better than you do.
The only way to get America out of the toilet is to develop common goals and have a society full of people willing to work hard to achieve them. That's what made us a great country. The reason for our current decaying state is the fact that we're all stepping on each others toes. Welcome to the melting pot.