Guest Post by Joe Guzzardi
Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) shocked most observers, including her New England neighbor and fellow White House hopeful Bernie Sanders (D-VT), when she announced the price tag of $52 trillion for her Medicare for All proposal. Sanders’ plan for essentially the same universal coverage would come in at a comparatively modest $32 trillion.
Despite the mind-numbing costs, Warren, with a straight face, said her proposal would not increase taxes on the middle class “by one penny,” a point disputed by many. But most alarming was Warren’s lack of compassion when she brushed off the large numbers of working Americans who would lose jobs under her plan.
Laying out $52 trillion on Medicare for All, however, is just the latest unsound Warren suggestion. Her promise to decriminalize illegal border crossings and defang interior enforcement would lead to endless migratory waves from all the world’s corners with major societal consequences on domestic employment, health care, education and population growth.
In recent years, erasing the border has become an increasingly popular goal among elites. In fact, Congress has repeatedly demonstrated more concern about Syria’s border than the shared U.S. border with Mexico where neglect has festered for decades. With only token resistance, the U.S. has ceded border control to criminal operations, including the Sinaloa Cartel, that wreak havoc along and inside Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California.
Last month, President Donald Trump defended the United States’ troop withdrawal from northern Syria by saying that “it’s not our border” and that “we shouldn’t be losing lives over it.” Congressional Democrats and many Republicans roundly condemned the president. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell objected forcefully to President Trump’s action. In a Washington Post op-ed, McConnell called the troop withdrawal “a grave strategic mistake.” McConnell said that pulling out of Syria leaves the U.S. homeland more dangerous and encourages our terrorist enemies.
If only McConnell and his congressional colleagues were as concerned about the U.S. Southwest border crisis where the drug war is ongoing, with powerful cartels pushing their deadly products stateside. Why Congress continues to ignore the mounting chaos at the southern border is a question Americans should be asking of their elected representatives. Acting Citizenship and Immigration Services director Ken Cuccinelli said that savvy northern Mexico cartel bosses – “the most evil, vicious, awful people in the western hemisphere” – have turned the border “into a toll booth.”
Experts on the front line describe how the cartels have taken over. Jackson County, Texas Sheriff Andy Louderback explained that every minute of every day cartel lords perpetrate human and drug trafficking, among their many criminal activities. They also are responsible for a record 33,341 murders last year alone in Mexico that are a signature method of maintaining control over their methamphetamine, marijuana, cocaine and heroin distribution centers in key metroplex areas, including Phoenix, Los Angeles, Denver and Chicago. Other local authorities concur. Otero County, New Mexico Sheriff David Black said that lax enforcement has given the cartels “the green light” to continue their deadly criminal behavior.
Yet Congress remains mostly mum about inadequate enforcement, especially as it applies to asylum seekers traveling with minor children, who the cartels are particularly adept at manipulating. While some border security improvements have been initiated, others have remained in limbo since the Secure Fence Act of 2006.
But even excluding the cartels’ deadly dominance, open borders is a horrible, indefensible policy. The Census Bureau predicts that if the status quo remains, by 2060 U.S. population will hit an unmanageable 404 million, up from today’s 330 million. If Warren and other candidates who champion open borders get their way, over the next five decades, today’s population of 330 million people is likely to approach a nightmarish 500 million.
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The drug problem is strictly the fault of the law. Remove ALL laws concerning ALL drugs and watch the problem disappear.
The cartel is in the drug business for the money. The money is there because the drugs are illegal. Once legal, the price drops to where the cartel will no longer be interested and because legitimate sources could become legitimate distributors. The competition would kill the cartels and the violence, corruption and influence the illicit money represents.
An added benefit would be that the dopers could overdose more easily getting rid of more low life trash in the society.
I did say ALL drugs. Get rid of the concept of a ‘prescription’. Make all drugs over the counter. This would reduce medical costs tremendously as people could avoid the medical cartel that currently supplies the approved of drugs for a huge profit. If people want to see a doctor to get his/her opinion on what to take, fine. Those that want to self medicate should be able to do so. Stop the damned nanny state; we can’t afford it.
S A O, Canada has found the reverse to be true with their legal cannabis. It can be purchased on the street much cheaper than at government stores. Plus now that it is “legal”, no one really knows if it was purchased on the street from a “bootlegger”, or from a government sanctioned store. Funny that.
The Canadian gov’t just took the place of the drug dealer by increasing the price of the ‘legal’ dope above the actual market price of the ‘illegal’ equivalent. The cost of sales tax, licensing, inspection, etc, etc, etc has to be paid for and the gov’t reaps those benefits by increased gov’t income plus providing ‘jobs’ to what would otherwise be welfare recipients.
This is a market reaction to the usual con game run by all gov’ts.
Adults free to make decisions for themselves? What a novel concept.
Trump’s dream of a borderless America is the same dream of his liberal daughter and son in law.
WTF? Where did you get that from?
Haven’t we already been dealing with open borders for the past three decades?
All they’re doing now is advertising it……
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Guzzardi sounds like a yellow press writer. I’m sure he was breathing into a paper bag as he wrote this bullshit. I do wish he’d use the same enthusiasm while writing on the Epstein case. The morons who reported on that crap could not have sounded more bored; two cameras failed, the guards were dozing, Epstein went gently into the night. Presidential candidates, past and present, expressed concern, ho-hum.
Now, Trump’s rally emphasized illegal immigration. That’s the bugaboo that keeps on giving. Scare the hell out of people to get the vote out. He didn’t explain how illegal immigration is supposedly still happening on his watch. It almost sounded like he was running the same game pattern as in 2016. I wish he’d address the Lolitas question, tell us why he didn’t lock up Hillary or keep Epstein safe.
” I wish he’d address the Lolitas question, tell us why he didn’t lock up Hillary or keep Epstein safe.”
I gotta go with the age old saying….’wish in one hand….’ ya know? Besides, “they’re good people”
“It almost sounded like he was running the same game pattern as in 2016”.
It worked once, why not again?
I am amazed how the DC gang has managed to turn ‘sedition’ and ‘treason’ into campaign talk. Just try to remember when you vote: the demonrats are evil and the republicants are doing god’s work.
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ec,
should we be allowing this illegal immigration to happen?
if not,should we legalize it?
should we stop it?
if you were potus,how would you stop it?
you’re a good thinker,who killed epstein & why?
why did epstein come back?
Medicare for all through the monstrous federal government would cause a 46% increase in the already unpayable trillions of dollar deficits. 52 trillion, not in a trillion years.
Exactly….However the vast majority of people in this country are so math challenged that they will vote for it anyway. The idiots that are put up as possible presidential candidates also know this.Theirs is a different agenda. Free Free Free!!!!! Gone is that ole saying “There’s no such thing as a free lunch”
as i understand it,the drugs are trucked to within just a few miles of the border–
trump should insert a boatload of sf guys & concentrate on meth,coke,heroin,etc. & start taking out the cartel workers who force the mules to carry the drugs over the border–
if we kept more of the bad drugs out it would help our nation tremendously–
The real problem is the demand side. The drug gangs are there to supply a pent up demand by the US population. Prohibition was tried before and failed miserably.
Today we have drug prohibition and most folks think the fools in gov’t haven’t learned the lesson from past experience. I believe they learned the lesson very well and are using the ‘drug war’ as a control and revenue source.
The CIA runs drugs out of Afghanistan. The CIA was implicated in the Mena AK fiasco; Barry Seal was their guy. Just look at all the thugs employed by gov’t to pretend to combat the drug problem. These folks would hate to see their jobs disappear, so they do whatever it is they can to keep the con game going.
There is no ‘drug problem’. It’s a made up issue. If a doper drops dead, why should I care? If a person wants to ruin their life, let them; decades of attempting to change their behavior hasn’t worked. Give it up.
No one has wanted to implement REAL border security, not even Trump. All supposed solutions are nothing of the kind. Walls can be bypasses by going under them, over them or through them as has been demonstrated numerous times.
What one can not subvert is what one can not see or touch.
Solve the problem in one of two ways.
1) Put up signage that indicates crossing a line is lethal. That’s fair warning. Station automated machine guns all along the border that will shoot anything moving inside a given range. The few hundred that get killed will signal that the threat is real and deter others. The number of lives saved by not dying in the desert or inside a locked truck would far outweigh the number killed to set the example.
2) Get rid of Border Patrol. Tell the local ranchers that the border is theirs to protect any way they see fit. Shoot on sight should work just fine. There would be hunting clubs and snipers volunteering their efforts. The illegals wouldn’t know what was and what was not protected. Again, the few that get killed would set the example and again, more lives would be saved by avoiding the death traps currently claiming victims.
People are going to die one way or the other, so at least reduce the number while simultaneously solving the illegals problem.
SAO…
I threw a downvote on ya, here’s why.
1- any time someone proposes an automated ‘shoot to kill’ deterrent controlled by the gov., I consider it to be a blind step towards Skynet………AI soon becomes the beast system.
2- just sounds like a poorly thought out remark, IMO. Ranchers, most likely generational, now have the ‘privilege’ to end human life like stray coyotes, to become their own spec ops, but pay taxes to fund a gov. which has, as one of it’s fundamental mandates, to defend from foreign invasion?
E-verify would deter a large part of the herd.
“No one has wanted to implement REAL border security, not even Trump.”
I agree 100%
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I’m not particularly fond of the ideas myself, but they would definitely be a deterrent to more invasion.
I don’t have much use for gov’t but as long as it exists and has the technology sitting on a shelf, it’s an option. They have so much tech to use against the population as a whole that I don’t think using any of it as indicated would be much of an idea generator.
For people that dreamt up Operation Northwood and similar programs I’m sure they already have operational plans targeting the US population all gamed out.
As for the ranchers, I recall seeing a video of some already scouting the border on their own dime, fully armed and prepared to meet resistance with deadly force if necessary. I got the impression they were no nonsense because they have personally felt the impact the illegals have generated.
Your mention of E-Verify instantly translated into ‘gov’t failure – again’. I agree that the legal US population should get the jobs and illegals shouldn’t. If this program had any serious intention of making good on its bogus advertising, then employers caught with dozens of illegals working fields, slaughter houses, etc would be shut down permanently as an indicator to the rest to not screw around.
However, as was already mention, an employer is also stuck if he has jobs the US folks don’t want to do for the labor rate he can afford to pay. With gov’t handing out money for nothing welfare checks, they are the low end employers competition in the labor market. Because of gov’t intervention, the low end employer is really up against it. I’d cut the welfare checks out of existence to help the employer and instill some work ethic in a population that has been conditioned to expect their ‘entitlement’ checks with no effort on their part.
Your last paragraph rings a true chord with me. Not only does it put a few million more American citizens into the taxpaying workforce, the savings will give us a budget surplus.
SAO..
Did you just put the squeaky clean baby back in the dirty bathwater?
The mere suggestion of automated control of weaponry to ‘deter invaders’ plays right into the Leviathan script.
Referencing E-verify to government failure is failing to recognize the intents of the feds. The ‘bumbling’ DC overlords have no problem passing effective legislation that puts the heel to the neck of serfs, while managing to negotiate exclusive health care/wages/pensions for themselves.
Not to mention the ‘perks’ they’ve obtained by hook and crook as they exempt themselves from the law when needed…
“However, as was already mention, an employer is also stuck if he has jobs the US folks don’t want to do for the labor rate he can afford to pay”
That’s a pretty loaded statement….sort of the ole “they do the jobs Muricans won’t do”. I just don’t buy it. Too simple. Doesn’t take into account the different ways the immigrant can recieve subsidies from Mr. Taxpayer, while Mr. Taxpayer tries to find a job that pays him enough to get by without those subsidies….but the employer has an endless supply of subsidized workers…so, who’s on first and what’s on second, but I don’t know is comin round third?
All I’m trying to say is the government, or rather, the lucy ferrian freemasons that direct it, are following a plan…..IT’S ALL BY DESIGN
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I’m saying the automated weaponry exists and since it exists, they can use it against anyone they like at any time they like, so suggesting using it as a deterrent along the border isn’t that great a leap and certainly would work.
I’m sure someone already thought about it, ran it up the flagpole and got it shot down as too un PC, for the moment. I’m also certain that they can pull a war game plan out of a filing cabinet that specifies how to use that same weaponry against US citizens.
My reference to E-Verify is the propaganda of its intended use. If they wanted to make that work it would work. Since its not working the conclusion is that they don’t want it to work or they have it working perfectly as they intended all along.
I’m well aware that the congress critters exempt themselves from much of the legislation the peons are expected to obey, such as their ability to legally use insider information for personal gain, that they have their own unique health care plan paid for by us and implement the special riders to laws that exempt campaign contributors from legislation to fatten their next campaign bank account. …
As far as jobs going unfilled is concerned, I’d bet dollar to donuts that my categorization is accurate at least a large part of the time. Why would a welfare queen bother with a job when she makes a good living while watching TV? There’s no incentive for her to even attempt to find work as a low paid job would offer less money and benefits than she gets via the sum total of all entitlements? Besides, working would interfere with watching the next installment of the soap opera and would involve showing up early in the morning and on time.
Only someone that can’t sign up for the ‘free stuff’ has to work to feed his face. In some jurisdictions, illegals can sign up for all sorts of benefits, but that’s not universal. There are also many illegals that send money back to their relatives and one can only do that by getting a paycheck, not via a SNAP card. I recall reading how much of Mexico’s GDP is money sent in from the US but I forget the amount. My recollection is my surprise at how large an amount it was.
There is no one answer. You’re right part of the time and I’m right the other part. Combined, all one can say categorically is that the system is broken by design as you say.
SAO…
I’m just kinda pokin the bear. You’ve got a fine command of taking a position…clearly understand what you’re saying
Nothin jumps to mind from the past 3 or 4 decades that leads me to believe this government is on the side of its’ citizens, and patriots are looked at as above average threats… ?
The political system of Amaracu, the Land of the Plumed Serpent, was built on and is sustained by, lies. I have come to believe there is nothing those in charge won’t do to stay the course to a new order of the ages…
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum “When our founders declared a new order of the ages…..they were acting on an ancient hope that is meant to be fulfilled”
US Pres. G.W.Bush, Jan. 20, 2005 second inaugural address
Enjoy reading your comments….
“Remittances in Mexico increased to 9725.69 USD Million in the third quarter of 2019 from 9402.60 USD Million in the second quarter of 2019. Remittances in Mexico averaged 3054.20 USD Million from 1980 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 9725.69 USD Million in the third quarter of 2019 and a record low of 158.70 USD Million in the fourth quarter of 1982.”
https://tradingeconomics.com/mexico/remittances
Agreed about the Fed Gov. Trump had some promise but is largely a disappointment. If he wanted to drain the swamp, he could have started that process in earnest within seconds of taking the oath of office.
“As Commander In Chief I order the withdrawal of all US troops and related personnel from all overseas locations along with all US property as much as is physically practical.”
He would have to have been in a bunker somewhere to do it, and stay there.
Perp walk a couple of high profile CEO’s for hiring illegals and the jobs dry up.
Stop giving them welfare & free medical and the free ride dries up.
End birthright citizenship, just like almost every other country on the planet.
No more reason to come to our country to break the law.
You got that right!
I’ve said many times that if the US got rid of the ‘free stuff’ magnet that attracts the low end of the spectrum, the problem would solve itself.
The political class won’t ever consider such a move voluntarily.
Dems like the votes of the takers, so are more than glad to provide the handouts. Rep are too scared of being called an ___ist, so hide and let the dems buy the votes with tax $
That has, of course, been true for decades but the newest wrinkle is that it is now in your face obvious.
The Dems not only don’t try to hide it they trumpet it openly and are proud of their progressive attitude and look down on the deplorables that can’t appreciate their enlightened wisdom.
when reading immigration articles you should train yourself to also think about entitlement reforms & labor laws–
our country has too many people who will not work & will not have hunger pangs b/c you are forced to support them–
when an employer needs a decent employee he will do what he has to do–
Yes and….
After the Media takes down Warren, Sanders and Biden resigns due to family matters.
Who will be left? Who’s out there that can step in?
What a shame of a nomination process.
i think the death penalty for selling or smuggling wholesale amounts of heroin fentanyl and meth would have the most effect on cartel profits and violence. it would also reduce welfare, homelessness and disease in USA. let’s do it. we would be killing thousands to save millions.
The most successful drug overlord/dealer in the history of the world is the CIA.
The flow will never be slashed until it is cleaned out or destroyed.
They gotta raise their black ops funding from somewhere and drugs be big money.