Progressives and the North American Union

___The Progressives knew that the New Deal could not be sustained without large numbers of young workers. Dr Walter Williams has correctly called Social Security “a Ponzi scheme with a gun.”

___Part of the plan has been to have a North American Union, NAU, similar to the European Union (EU). It was not popular when proposed, because Mexico did not fit well. Canada and the United States have had a trade agreement since 1987. Mexico was added in 1994 under North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, under President Clinton and a Democrat Congress (Democrats controlled Congress from 1955 to January 1995). Progressives have sought to allow massive numbers of Mexicans into the United States – both legal and illegal - in order to pad the support for NAU.

___Mexico has very strict immigration laws which effectively block immigrants from poor countries to their south. If the NAU was a good deal for the United States, then a wall on Mexico's southern border would be about a thousand miles shorter than a wall between Mexico and the United States – particularly if Belize and the northern portion of Guatemala were absorbed by the NAU. The key question is how much of our national sovereignty do we lose?

___The big difference in the EU and NAU should be multiculturalism versus assimilation. The United States has had assimilation in the past. We have been described as a "melting pot." Europe has encouraged multiculturalism (valuing one's cultural heritage instead of embracing the culture of one's new country). Muslim enclaves have recognized Sharia law in place of the law of the country they inhabit. This has led to the problems we see - support for terrorists from within. The United States Constitution (Law) is not compatible with Sharia law.

American Liberals Leaving in Droves

___The flood of Trump fearing American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week, sparking calls for increased patrols to stop the illegal immigration. The Republican Presidential primary campaign is prompting an exodus among left leaning citizens who fear they'll soon be required to hunt, pray, and live according to conservative ideas about the Constitution.

___Canadian border farmers say it's not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, global warming activists, and "green" energy proponents crossing their fields at night. "I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood producer huddled in the barn," said Southern Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield, whose acreage borders North Dakota. “The producer was cold, exhausted and hungry. He asked me if I could spare a latte and some free-range chicken. When I said I didn't have any, he left before I even got a chance to show him my screenplay, eh?" In an effort to stop the illegal aliens, Greenfield erected higher fences, but the liberals scaled them. He then installed loudspeakers that blared Rush Limbaugh across the fields, but they just keep coming.

___Officials are particularly concerned about smugglers who meet liberals near the Canadian border, pack them into electric cars and drive them across the border where they are simply left to fend for themselves after the battery dies.

___"A lot of these people are not prepared for our rugged conditions," an Ontario border patrolman said. "I found one carload without a single bottle of Perrier drinking water. They did have a nice little Napa Valley Cabernet, though, and some kale chips."

___When liberals are caught, they're sent back across the border, often wailing loudly that they fear assassination from Trump high hairers. Rumors have been circulating about plans being made to build re-education camps where liberals will be forced to drink domestic beer and study the Constitution.

___In recent days, liberals have turned to ingenious ways of crossing the border. Some have been disguised as senior citizens taking a bus trip to buy cheap Canadian prescription drugs. After catching a half- dozen young vegans in blue-hair wig disguises, Canadian immigration authorities began stopping buses and quizzing the supposed senior citizens about Perry Como and Rosemary Clooney to prove that they were alive in the '50s. "If they can't identify the accordion player on The Lawrence Welk Show, we become very suspicious about their age," an official said.

___Canadian citizens have complained that the illegal immigrants are creating an organic-broccoli shortage, buying up all the Barbara Streisand c.d.'s, and renting all the Michael Moore movies. "I really feel sorry for American liberals, but the Canadian economy just can't support them," an Ottawa resident said. "How many art-history majors does one country need?"

The Widening Income Gap Between Rich and Poor

___The rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer? Wrong! The gap between the incomes may be widening, but the poor are getting richer also.

___Why is the gap widening? The rich make and spend money more efficiently than the poor. The poor may not have a vehicle, so they shop at the most convenient store. The rich usually have more than one vehicle and can shop where their dollars are most effectively and frugally spent. Compare food prices at a “convenience” store and a Costco. Customers pay a membership fee at a Costco because they will save more than the fee during the membership period. The income of the poor (welfare or Social Security) is relatively static compared to the open-ended income of the rich. The cost of necessities (food, medicine, basic clothing and basic housing) is not that different for the poor and the rich, but it is a far greater percentage of the poor's income. The rich will be able to save and invest a large portion of their income thus increasing their future incomes. They can buy designer clothing and live in mansions. The poor borrow money at title pawn stores or “sub-prime lenders” at more than 36% interest. Many borrow with credit cards and make “minimum payments.” If the rich have to borrow money, then they do so at “prime rates” or lower.

___Income usually increases with the amount of education that a person has. A person can typically avoid poverty by staying in school and applying him/herself. A teenage girl who becomes pregnant and drops out of school before graduation, will typically not become rich. A blue-collar worker with a single skill will typically be unemployed at some time in the global economy - which requires flexibility to perform whatever task is required. Many industrial workers have been replaced by automation and the demands of total quality control. In 1776 most Americans earned some income from growing food and crops. By 2016, most food and crops were grown by about 2% of the population. Change happens, and we must develop the skills needed to adapt and prosper.

___Many (like the Tubmans of Augusta) freed their slaves and paid for their passage back to Africa. The Economist says that in 2006 the per-capita GDP in the United States was $37,240. In Liberia, where the freed slaves were sent, the per-capita GDP was $900. The “poor” in America would be considered “rich” in Liberia!

Congress Needs Balance Against the Supreme Court

___In 1857 the Supreme Court of the United States, SCOTUS, ruled that no black of African descent could be a citizen of the United States. The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution (ratified 1868) says that “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

___The purpose of the 14th Amendment was to undo the precedent of the 1857 SCOTUS decision. It was not to legalize abortion and same-sex marriage in all states or even to overrule the Florida Supreme Court in the 2000 Presidential election. It has become a gold mine for activist judges. The SCOTUS also ruled that detaining American citizens of German or Japanese descent in concentration* camps during WWII was legal. That same precedent would allow us to place American citizens of Muslim faith in concentration camps during the war on terror – which is a possible reason that the POTUS refuses to name jihadists as Islamist terrorists.

___We need to quit criticizing our founding fathers and begin appreciating and studying their creation instead. Rather than complain about gridlock in Washington, D.C., we need to thank those who stopped illegal actions. Some consider SCOTUS decisions as an end. The Congress can pass laws to correct illegal SCOTUS decisions. If you read dissenting opinions for the same-sex decision, then Justices are called elitist activists who are ignoring the very Constitution that they have sworn an oath to interpret. The 10th Amendment (ratified 1789 by our founding fathers) was ignored in favor of the 14th! It is certain that Madison, the primary author, had a better concept of the document than did the 1868 and 2015 justices!

___I recently saw protestors stomping on an American flag. That is a 1st Amendment right of free speech for citizens, but should these folks be citizens? Are they subject to the jurisdiction thereof? Normally the phrase refused American citizenship to those diplomats and their families with “diplomatic immunity” who had a baby while in the United States. I would also refuse American citizenship to those who disavow allegiance by desecrating an American flag or promoting a flag of another country. So think about that when people wave Mexican flags on cinco de mayo!

* The politically correct term is “internment” camps.