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Well I know it has been a while since I updated the site but I’ve been on vacation and working on big projects for my business.
My vacation was a 10 day trip starting in New York City then a train ride to Delaware and then a drive to Washington D.C... It was a long yet educational trip on several levels. It helped me understand the “East Coast” attitude towards the “Fly over country” and why they are more liberal then most of the rest of the country.
New York has a lot of energy and I can see why it has inspired many people to greatness in the arts and science, yet has my friend Frank told me, (he lives in Delaware) “100 million people live within 4 hours of his house, yet 95% of them are idiots. But that still means 5 million are smart, and that is more then all the people that live in Iowa.” And I believe I met a lot of those “95 percenters” on my trip.
However, New York’s energy leads the nation and world in change, unlike Washington D.C. where I loved the giant buildings and monuments of granite, but I realized that it also meant that change was slow and honoring the past was more important then fixing the present or the future.
Commentators like Rush Limbaugh talk about how Republicans who first get elected to Washington fall for the trap of being in the “in crowd” and alter their views to be accepted and get on TV because they differ from other Republicans. I believe the city also traps men into moving slow and not making the choices that will make real change, not realizing the only people with monuments or buildings named after them are the ones that separated them selves from the crowd and made changes.
The recent immigration legislation is an example of why the solution can not come from the east coast but must come from the southwestern states who are directly involved with the situation. The east cost has such a vast population of immigrants that the average height of its population must be 5’7”! I am 6’0 and I don’t normally feel that much taller then people here in my home town of Des Moines, but in New York I felt like a giant.
This made me look around harder had who is an immigrant and I realized that almost all the service jobs were done by first or second generation immigrants. It was amazing that the first 6 cab rides had only guys from the middle-east, all the maids, doorman, fast food order takers. It had to be 75% or more from the places I went to and saw in N.Y. which lead me to the conclusion that there is an almost “Master/Slave” relationship between the wealthy, middle class and everyone else.
I believe that easterners believe that if we get tough on immigration that this “service” class would disappear and who would take care of them? Or that they fear some sort of uprising or labor strike that would close down the city and states. That’s why they don’t want the legislation to include having to go home to them come back. This would cause too much interruption in services.
The truth is that we need to first just stop the inflow by building the fence on the border. Then we work on a system to get those who have skills we can use to get into the system, get the criminals out, also we need to overhaul the whole thing to allow immigrants from other countries with skills and cash to get in easier too.
This also needs to be tempered with welfare reform. If there are “Job’s American’s won’t do” then that is because welfare pays better then those jobs, if it didn’t then they would get those jobs wouldn’t they?
Wouldn’t it be a great way to celebrate “Independence day” by making more legal Americans, and making more American’s independent of the government.
