I have no idea how the United States will be able to allow all the illegal Mexicans that are in the United States to stay, but I think it is to late to send them back. Something stronger should have been in place and strictly enforced to keep them out in the beginning. Many have homes, good jobs (or jobs US citizens wont do), and have produced offspring in the US that are American citizens. The country is definitely near financial ruin, but sending the Mexicans back to Mexico is not the fix. We do need to stop more people of any nationality from entering illegally. As far as the US not being mentioned as a world power during the readings of the last days; well God only knows the appointed time. I have no idea what might happen to the US before that time – it could be bankruptcy, natural disaster, or human corruption that causes the loss of power for the United States, only time will tell.

It may be a problem in semantics, but I cannot agree that our country is broke. Our government may be on the verge of bankruptcy, and it may be rapidly approaching its borrowing limit. Our country is still the richest on earth, in terms of money, natural resources, ingenuity of its people, appropriate climate for the support of life, and the ability of its people to solve new problems.

Our government began to go broke in 1970 with the passage of the Enviromental Protection Act. As the EPA grew in power over the following 20 years, the nation’s industrial base first made a good faith effort to comply; but it soon found that it could not without its bottom line being greatly affected; therefore, the Eighties and Nineties ushered in the greatest departure of an industrial base and wealth that any nation has ever suffered in the history of the world. It began with outsourcing manufacturing processes and products and resulted in a mass exodus of entire plants and industries from these shores. Today, as one looks at the cities across this nation, one sees the poorest of the poor who are completely dependent on the distribution of wealth from the government for their complete sustenance; one sees a successful middle class who are working at high paying government(and quasi-government) jobs; and one sees thousands upon thousands of “Mom & Pop” business and service sector jobs who prey on the thousands of government workers for their sustenance. All the while nothing is being manufactured, and no new wealth is being created. Everyone is concerned and interested on in the re-distribution of the wealth of others.

The nation’s problem is not bankruptcy. It is a problem with the government and the people who run the government. We must return to a smaller, leaner government that is not anti-industry, anti-free trade, and anti-entrepeneual. Once we return to the kind of entrepeneual spirit that once made this nation the wealthest and greatest nation on earth, it will once again achieve that state. Just because fossil fuels are running low, and cheap energy based upon them is almost gone doesn’t mean that an enterprising people cannot again achieve the kind of wealth that will once again make this nation the saviour of the world. It all depends upon its people.

I don’t know! Most of the entrepeneual innovation in the past came from thousands of immigrants in a day when there was no attempt to control immigration, and all immigration was legal. I suppose that is where most of the immovation will come in the future because native born Americans, like the ancient Romans of old, have become lazy and complacent with their bloated salaries and pensions. There is a continuing need for new blood from the downtrodden of the world to shake things up. As far as my soap box being in the middle of a pasture, that is the only soap box I have ever had. My father in Coal Fire had the most educated cattle in Alabama because I was always preaching to them. They didn’t “understand” as the American “educated class” does not necessarily understand what is happening to them today.