A Conservative Learns Some New Facts

The Far Away Brothers is one book which I recommend. It is history, political science and social studies all rolled into one. Auren Markham did a fine job of unraveling the complexities of US policies which did not make any sense to me like DACA. I’ve written a few blog pieces on GrumpaJoesplace.com about how befuddled I was about the thousands of kids migrating to the USA from Central America. How could little kids do that by themselves? That is one of the questions she answered for me. Another question I asked is why did the USA advertise its DACA policy in Central America? Had our administration gone nuts? What she leads me to believe is that our Department of Homeland Security did just the opposite. Why I heard that the USA encouraged Central Americans to migrate is still a mystery, but I think it might have been Fake News that did it.
Markham exposes why kids from El Salvador are leaving in droves. It is simple and it has nothing to do with America. It has everything to do with Central American government’s inability to improve conditions in their countries, their inability to control gangs, and their excessive corruption. Where have we heard that before? In the meantime, the USA in its compassion, and mercy tries to legislate solutions to solve problems that we know nothing about. In my years as an engineer we learned to find to the root-cause. DACA legislation resulted from being unable to reach the root-cause. The frustration of passing laws without knowing what problem the law deals with in a country we have absolutely no intimate  knowledge of. Even if did have intimate knowledge, how would we go about implementing laws in a foreign country to solve their inner problems? Meanwhile the people of Central America look to the North as a place where the ‘streets are paved in gold,’ and look upon the USA as the answer to all of their problems.
All along I wondered how young kids could travel over a thousand miles without any resources. They didn’t, they paid big money to hire a Coyote to get them into the USA. I should say, their parents paid big money by borrowing at ridiculous interest rates ( 20% +) , and expecting their liberated kid to work it off. What they don’t realize is the infinite maze of agencies, and systems legislated to insure only those who seek political asylum qualify, and not easily. Why these same people didn’t pay to get their kids a passport and visa before they paid for the coyote remains a mystery. In the meantime, we Americans swallow the bill to pay for the exorbitant court costs for years of needless red tape. I can now see why groups like La Raza want open borders, and free passage across borders to prevail.
Author Markham tells this story by telling the story of  one family with nine kids from El Salvador whose one son gets in trouble with a gang that threatens to kill him.  His loving parents pay for his escape. After he leaves, his twin brother who looks exactly like him fears the gang will kill him by mistake, so the parents take another juice loan to get the twin out-of-town. The story of their escape and arrival in the US is a mind-boggling drama that none of us would want to live through, but they make it.

I gave this book four stars.

Which Side of the Bed Is the Right Side?

Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland pre...

Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland presents President Barack Obama with the Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Raadhuset Main Hall at Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway, Dec. 10, 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Since I am posting messages from friends about the issues of our country, I feel it obligatory to present the record of the other side as well. I am impressed with the degree of change that ‘O’ has been able to accomplish in between rounds of golf and trips to Hollywood.

No, I did not check this out on SNOPES or any other Soros funded fact check agency designed to protect his goal to change America into a communist socialist state.

Which side of the bed is the right side to get up on? It doesn’t matter, I got up on the opposite today.

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President Obama’s change policy contains an impressive list of

accomplishments:

 

First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he

was a foreigner.

First President to have a social security number from a state he has never

lived in.

First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United

States

First President to violate the War Powers Act. .

First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing

oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico .

First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third

party.

First President to spend a trillion dollars on ‘shovel-ready’ jobs when

there was no such thing as ‘shovel-ready’ jobs.

First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies

to his union supporters.

First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through

executive fiat.

First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the

deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S. , including those with

criminal convictions.

First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his

political appointees.

First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.

First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.

First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America

is no longer a Christian nation.

First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.

First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and

refuse to enforce it.

First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out

on the reasons for their rate increases.

First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is

allowed to locate a factory.

First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to

protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).

First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly

issued years ago.

First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).

First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-Corps for catching one

of his friends in a corruption case.

First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his

office.

First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.

First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years

in office, 102 to date.

First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.

First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.

First President to go on multiple global “apology tours” and concurrent

“insult our friends” tours.

First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and

Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the

taxpayer.

First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.

First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at

taxpayer expense.

First President to repeat the Holy Quran & tell us the early morning call of

the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.

First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for

their own private insurance because they “volunteered to go to war and knew

the consequences”.

Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that

THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.

First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American

50 states ( Mexico vs Arizona )

Core Conservative Beliefs

OBAMAS  MARXIST ADMINISTRATION ON DISPLAY FOR ...

OBAMAS MARXIST ADMINISTRATION ON DISPLAY FOR ALL TO SEE (Photo credit: SS&SS)

If you want to open your mind and learn what the differences are between Conservatives, and Progressives, this link will take you to an excellent essay written by an immigrant to America.

Core Conservative Beliefs.