My personal take on this is that whatever the outcome of the coming election, some hard facts are going to have to be delivered to a delusional public. What happens after that is anybody's guess.
Both of the major Democrats simply parrot one simple phrase -- blame it all on George W. Bush. All their followers seem to hooked on another simple, and dangerous, belief -- that the government can address issues that the law of supply and demand cannot.
But I've got some hard questions for the GOP, too. The so-called "conservatives" who flay the illegal immigration issue seem to think that generation emerging from our politically-corrected educational system will readily accept the bottom-of-the-barrel jobs currently held by the illegals, while the aging "baby boomers" hold onto their increasingly-intangible "pseudo-wealtrh" as they sink into disfunctionality.
Clearly, we are facing a huge lowering of expectations. The question is: Do we have enough restraint to allow the issue to be resolved by the free exchange of goods, services and ideas, or is the perceived threat so great that we would surrender our traditions of independence and self-reliance to a clique from inside the Beltway?
The issues that have arisen on these forums over the past three years have several components, but.are all inter-related. Likewise, the answers to the problems are different for each region and each segment of the public, which is to say "the market". The solution is not going to emerge from the fantasies of lawyers.
When I enter that voting booth this November, I will likely have to choose among the lesser of several evils. So I will be guided not by what I have to gain, but what I might have to lose.
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What a revoltin' development this is! (William Bendix)