“ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE A FACTOR IN CALIFORNIA’S BUDGET MATH”
Here is my husband’s email response to an article I sent him from the LA Times:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-me-cap2-2009feb02,0,4875070.column
“As we are soon to leave the state, I really don’t care if CA falls into the ocean, much less how they will solve their budget crisis, but some of the facts are interesting because they are occurring in many if not most the states in the US. Mildly infuriating, really. I’m a big believer in immigration being the foundation of the diverse small business activity in the US and thus it’s broad impact on the GDP: see (http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs299tot.pdf) and (http://www.kauffman.org/Details.aspx?id=104). Now, no matter what anybody says or threatens, we are not going to be able to remove them. However, there has got to be a legal way to get them to leave on their own. But what is driving me insane about CA is that the people (presumably voters) repetitively decide on issues that the courts later throw out (see Prop 8). Who’s really in charge anymore? Certainly not the voters. But this a bad thing? On one hand, if it was up to the voters, we probably still would have had slavery last a lot longer (definitely Jim Crow) or would have never entered WWI voluntarily, but then again we would had Al Gore as a president. But call me crazy, I’ll trust the people before I trust some crazy judges, more of which seem bent on treating their position as one of legislator-advocate instead of impartial executor. It seems like everyone is claiming to know what is best for us except us.
As a side (but not entirely unrelated) note, this new “stimulus” plan being sold to Congress feels like a major climatic event happening before our eyes, in slow motion. European-style socialism seems to be more than a real possibility now, because more and more of our elected officials and their eggheads believe that the EU has it right, that communal governance implies sharing its resources. Funny, I though the point of republican government was to provide for the common defense and protect our common economic freedoms (money is the key to power), the latter of which does not imply a right to charity and transparency.
The human condition, and its state in nature, does not exist in a state of parity. Life is not fair, nor are we able to engineer a society to make it so. Balance is best achieved with less governance, not more. Yes, civilization requires order (discipline), but not control. We now have a government that wants to try to control everything… and is failing miserably at it.”
Tags: California, democrats, Illegal_Immigrants, Immigrants, Libertarians, politics, republicans
