Call For Sanity

  The politicization of immigration has reached near crisis level in our country. Several years ago I suggested a workable solution  Immigration Reform , which I think would work, but just as was the case then (2018), nothing has been done to fix the laws.  During President Trump's first term, it came to a head with a  Border Wall Showdown .  After that, President Biden had an opportunity to leverage to the backlash against Trump's handling of the COVID pandemic as well as immigration and other issues. However, nothing was done but once again change the way and extent we enforced the laws rather than reforming the laws. Now we have an emboldened Trump in the White House, knowing that he won't be eligible for re-election, not just stopping people from coming into the country without authorization but actively rooting out and deporting people using a very heavy-handed approach.  This has led to protests amid allegations of human rights abuses. Republicans nee...

  It is June of 2025, and there is a bill in Congress called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which was adopted by the House of Representatives in May and is targeted for Senate approval by July 4.  The Congressional Budget Office has estimated it would add as much as $2.8 trillion to the debt over 10 years.   I have written in the past about the looming debt crisis Has A Deficit of $1 Trillion Been Worth It?  (2009) $23,000,000,000,000  (2019) We have no longer have deficits of $1 trillion, instead averaging over $2 trillion annually, with a record deficit exceeding $4 trillion during the COVID-19 pandemic.  The debt is well beyond $23 trillion from just six years ago, having soared to $36 trillion in 2025. Before we talk about solutions, lets see what we can learn from history. A Brief History Lesson A New Nation Pays Off Her Debts The United States as a fledgling nation had $75 million in war debt from the American Revolution (1776-1783) and a Gross ...