I may be wrong but I suspect that we either are lied to or just given false information and never needed to buy a drop of oil from other countrys. Dont we SELL oil to japan and elsewhere from alaska?
I was raised in wisconsin back in the 40s through early 60s. Everyone worked! There were a lot of cottage industry and larger factory jobs that doesnt exist now. There was many truck garden farms that hired us kids to work alongside the many mexican brazzeros that would migrate every summer. For kids, we made good money. We had seasonal cannerys like green giant that would hire anyone who would show up.
As far as buying foreign cars, you cant name a car that IS totaly made here in the states. You have no choice! Maybe a model here and there in ford or GM once used to be made mostly here, yet the very same company sold foriegn cars along side them, so whats the point?
I belive the real economical problem we have in this country is and always has been the socalists and greenies and liberal thinkers that are elected. Many stupid osha regulations make it difficult to compete, companys are taxed and regulated out of existance or move out of the country to survive.
Lawyers are vultures that attack every product that can be made and the result has been doctors and no one else can afford the insurance to make it attractive to start a small business.
Were I a politican I would be in a delemma. I have strong feelings on both sides of the illegal immigration problem. First, were I born in mexico, I think I would be at the head of the line hopping the fence and swimming the river! Yet I belive we should close the border and deal harshly with all illegals. I belive we should check everyone and deport every illegal found and if found again in this country, seize everything they have, deport them again and tell them if they return they will be made slaves. I have met many obvious illegals, and can feel for them.
I also will admitt to fantisiseing that I would like to be able to select some legal americans to take their place in deportation!
I belive the feeling really is that there is just too many illegals here, about 20 million?, to effectively round them up. Privately, the politicans probley think that if we attempted to, we would look like the nazis rounding up the jews.
In 1954 president Eisenhower had a program called "Operation wetback". They rounded up somewhere around a 150,000 illegals and shipped them back far below the border. They estimated close to a million more went back on their own when they seen what was happening and that we were serious!
At the same time we also had "the bazzero program where many mexicans could legaly come seasonaly and work the crops. It seemed to work, and as a boy I worked with many of them in the fields in wisconsin.
I have one big question. Now if a illegal is caught near the border by the BP, they are deported. There is no fine or penalty of any kind. It kind of is like throwing your dog off the back of your truck when you want to go to town without him and he repeatedly climbs back on untill you give up!
Just where is the line where the illegal is safe? If found by say a traffic violation or whatever in a northern state, they are NOT deported!
The kids are going to school somewhere. The schools know the kids address,s. Like gays in the military its dont ask, dont tell.
Some states like texas and arizona are being bankrupted because the feds make them school and give welfare to many.
Our politicans and goverment seem to have no concept of reality. None know what it is to sweat for a dollar in the fields or at whatever. Their answer is let the evil big corperations pay the taxs for all their liberal socalistic ideas.
Things eventualy have to burst. Unless the lord comes first, we all will go broke and there has to be a huge reveloution where all dredges of soceity will either have to start working for pennies to eat or be shot when they try to steal from you.
This country no longer produces anything. It has become a "service" industry. Outside of construction and a few other types of employment it seems there are no sweat jobs. Not everyone in the world can be employed in a office setting! Somewhere, sometime, products have to be produced or we wont eat or have cloths to wear! Not everyone in this country can work at a hospital, bank, or be in the military or a LEO! Someones got to weed the onions and pick the mellons.
We need to either get rid of the sluggards or the illegals or both! First, we need to exicute everyone on death row yesterday, also all child molesters and drug pushers. Then all lesser theifs etc now in jail need to be marched out to the fields to do the illegals work.
I really would like to give every prisoner a choice. Either you work in the fields untill you drop or no longer can, or you trade places with one honest illegal imigrant and go to mexico, (we will keep throwing you over the fence untill you make it) but if found here later, you will be shot when found.
