Democrats Lead Race On Immigration & Spending Nightmare To Come

by Xelan Bonn

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 26, 2007

America's three top Democratic candidates are not concerned with domestic terrorism or spending between $2.6 and $9 trillion in taxpayers money to legalize an estimated 12-20 million illegal aliens. If you think spending is out of control right now under the Bush administration, which will leave Americans with over $9 trillion in national debt, wait until you see what a new Democratic president and Congress can do with spending and incompetency. 

"What are you going to do with the 12 million [illegal immigrants] already here?" asked Presidential hopeful Richardson as he spilled out a short diatribe on his own idea of immigration reform to an Iowa crowd yesterday--a plan that was largely a regurgitation of Senator Kennedy's defeated amnesty bill. 

Hilary has also told talk radio, "I'm in favor of comprehensive immigration reform... getting the 12 million or so immigrants out of the shadows. That's very important to me. After 9/11, we've got to know who's in this country. And then giving them a chance to pay a fine, pay back taxes, learn English and stand in line to be eligible for a legal status in this country." Wow, a revelation again--the defeated Kennedy amnesty bill alive and well in Hilary-speak!

And then there's John Edwards who says, we should welcome [illegal] immigrants with earned legalization programs... and a path to citizenship. It's as though they all helped Kennedy write his failed bill.

In another era this might be laughable but such prospects loom heavy over a nation of children who will now inherent one the largest debts this nation has ever amassed. Our robust economy, filling the pockets of corporations while our middleclass falls into the abyss, is already at the mercy of China's $1.3 trillion of from free trade surpluses that it now threatens to dump. Such a move could easily spiral our economy into an deep black hole--but not to worry, cavalry Fed will be quick to react with dollar-printing and large scale currency devaluation that takes most of the spending power out of an already weak dollar, or at least so says retired Alan Greenspan to a 60 minutes audience last week.

As a nation of concerned citizens, our current worries for a debacle can only enormously more powerful should one of the top three Democrats take control of the White House. Indeed, a devolving America toward a new Third World model appears on our horizon.

Where does hope rest for us weary Americans?

Well, ironically, it rest with us American voters and that's perhaps the worse place it could rest. 

First, what has been helping to save America from the run away Bush destructionism of our nation and his free trade or One World Government priorities has been the new Democratic Congress, which, although 100% impotent and derelict on their own, have at least managed to keep Bush a little more at bay than the Republican controlled Congress. 

Unfortunately, we're still faced with the reality that for the first time in recent US history, our two major parties are complete mirrors of each other and complete failures to not only themselves, but to the American people. 

Congress has become elitists and aristocratic in nature. It has given over so much power to the President that we stand on the verge of being a mirror pre-war era Germany--a people controlled literally by a fascist state--our right of habeous corpus taken from us along with so many other rights that scores of books had to be written on the subject. And with this destructionist push from within, we are also faced with wide scale leadership incompetence.

Political manipulation as opposed to sound consensus making based on logic and compromise have overtaken our Houses. Special interest has usurped every remaining light and will of We The People and given it to foolishness--in example, $400+ billion "bridges to nowhere" peppering our spending insanity. Restraint, no way. One of the first things the Dems have done since taking office was lift the spending limits that affect our deficit and debt. Although we have been spending our futures like we have no tomorrow, the worst part is that the Dems are just getting warmed up--remember, Congress does most of the spending, not the President.

So what can Americans do to stop the bleeding? Well, I'm sorry to say, but we need a new Congress--not just a new set of incoming freshmen, but an entire new Congress that is removed from office and replaced with a fresh new Congress that is not so entrenched with politicians but more with idealist and pragmatist. Of course, we as voters will never agree on how to obtain such an idealism so we'll likely just all go with the status quo and in the end our country will fall. 

In my best analysis and strategy as a voter in the next election, I would will consider this concept. At this point, it appears wise to walk past the odor, and vote for a Republican White House and House of Representatives, but strengthen a Democratic Senate. That should stalemate us from anymore out-of-control spending and might even force some aisle crossing--and then, we might start pressuring everyone to drop all their politics and start working as a team to solve this nation's nearly overwhelming set of problems.