Solutions...

It was pointed out to me that I spend a lot of time on here whining and complaining about the things I see around me without offering my opinion of the solutions to those problems. I guess they seem so obvious to me that I don't take the time to explain how I would get from where we are to where we're going.

The first thing we have to do is secure our borders. You wouldn't build a multi-million dollar mansion and not put a front door on it, but that's exactly what we've done with our country. We have the greatest country in the world and we just leave the door off, so anyone in the world can just walk in and have their way with the place. Not only do we let them in, we pay them to do it. How dumb would you look if you were in your multi-million dollar mansion, some homeless guy walks in your front door, you hand him $100, cook his meals, cloth him, pay for all the utilities, and when he leaves after a couple years carrying an arm full of your possessions you thank him for saving you two bucks on your lawn. That is exactly what we are doing. Good fences make good neighbors.

Once we get the locks on the doors, then we can work on cleaning the rats out of our cabinets. Anyone who is not a citizen of this country needs to get out. The last estimate I heard was that twelve million illegal boarder crossing burglars are in our country, the real number is probably closer to twenty million. Our government tells us they can't deport them all, but that's an outright lie. If we can ship 200,000 troops with all their gear and vehicles half way around the world in a few months, I'm sure there's a simple solution tossing out a few million “undocumented workers”. If nothing else, hire them to build the fence, then when the fence is done, hand them a bill from the IRS, walk them at gunpoint to the other side. They're here to be cheap labor after all, there's your guest worker program in action.

While we're cleaning up, we can implement the next step in my plan, which is to get rid of all the socialist programs we've burdened the taxpayers with. No where in the Constitution does it say the federal government's job is to take money from one group of people at gunpoint and give it to another group of people. If there are people who actually need assistance, they can get it from family, friends, and neighbors. Once the social programs are gone, and we're done standing on bridges waiting for big brother to come save us, we'll have to learn to be responsible for ourselves and our community. The churches can repay two hundred years of not having to pay taxes, by organizing America's good will toward our fellow man. How much better would we all feel about helping someone out, if we could make the decision on our own to do it, instead of having the IRS collect our charity from our paychecks?

Remember all those “jobs that Americans won't do” that we needed all those illegal aliens for? I know a bunch of government workers and ex-welfare recipients who are going to need those jobs. By dumping half the budget, we can cut taxes in half, and once you lower the tax burden on our economy, our businesses will once again become competitive in the world market. Instead of sending all our wages to China so they can supply us with throw away products, we'll be paying our own population to make the things we buy. We'll do it cleaner, faster, and better than the rest of the world because we'll have to in order to compete with other American companies. We'll then be in a position to export our surpluses to the rest of the world.

With the increased security and the positive business environment, we'll be in a position to implement a guest worker program of some kind or increase the number of immigrants we allow to become American citizens, but this time it will be on our terms with our rules. One of the rules should be that the person wanting to come here will have to maintain employment. We can control minimum wages by the amount of people in our country. We get too much labor (driving the prices down) we ship back the “guests”. It's simple supply and demand.

Now that we've straightened out our economy, and the immediate threat of terrorists walking into our nation, we can work on some of the problems at home. I don't have a problem with public schools in general, the problem comes from the teacher's unions, and the way we allocate money. First, the money we pay for public education needs to follow the child, and the parents should be free to put their kids in the school that does the best job of educating their kids. The only thing left to do is pay teachers on merit, good teachers should earn more money than average teachers, and poor teachers should find another career. Kids that fail to meet the standards for behavior need to be held responsible for their poor performance with real consequences like being held back a grade, mandatory summer school, or some other real consequence. Peer pressure works, let's use it to our advantage. A similar situation is already in place in our universities, and students from all over the world come here for an American education.

The last thing we need to do is put a bunch of lawyers out of work. We've already got a good start on that project by eliminating half the federal government (and probably two thirds of the laws), but we need to take it a step further and make our court system “loser pays”. This means if you sue someone because you spill a cup of coffee in your lap, and you lose, you not only have to pay your lawyer, but you'll also be responsible for the winner's defense, and the court costs. If that doesn't eliminate all the warning labels on products, we can also put a limit on the amount of damages that can be paid. No more free rides for dumb people. We need to let natural selection do a little work on the human race.

So what have we done? Well, we've provided for our security, removed parasites, improved our productivity, and invested in our future. We've streamlined the government, put in place an environment to educate our children, and put a bunch of ambulance chasers out of business. I think we've got a pretty good start.