Published: January 25, 2008 11:16 pm            

DAY: Are you legal or illegal?

Government can do better concerning immigration

You know, it really amazes me when I see some of the people on welfare of some sort, complaining about not getting enough money or food to live on.

Most are glad to get what they do. But the ones who are complaining seem to have enough money to buy smokes or alcoholic drinks, but none to feed the kids or clothe them. How do you feel about that?

I greeted one man the other day who had three cases of beer, several bags of chips, two loaves of bread and one gallon of milk in his cart, and he told me he wished he had enough money to buy his five kids some meat to eat. Seems that the money he gets from welfare isn’t enough, so he gets them what he can.

I, for one, would have loved to take this guy down with a good blow to his brainless body, but that wouldn’t help the kids. And he asked me if I could spare a couple of dollars to get some pizza. I didn’t give him any money.

We see people ripping off the Housing Commission, getting funds to pay the rent, and FEMA was paying out money to people who were not even living in New Orleans. That really gets me mad.

We have illegals working jobs that our legal residents should be doing, and these same people are in line to get help with our taxpayer money.

Now don’t get me wrong about what I am saying, as I feel that sometimes we will have the illegals do jobs that our legal ones won’t do. And also I feel that we can’t let people go hungry just because they don’t live here legally.

We are all brothers and sisters under the creatorship of our lovable God. It doesn’t matter what the religion is, as long as we can all live by the same “rules and laws of our nation,” which is built from the immigration of all kinds of races, heritage and beliefs.

What I am trying to get across to all is that we, right here in the good old USA, are laying down on our backs, looking for a sign to follow while all the time, our borders are allowing the entrance of those who don’t want to be citizens but do want all the frills of what we citizens pay for with our hard-earned money.

Our government is taking a long nap each day, while it should be trying to come up with a plan that would eliminate these problems.

Oh yes, I know that there are those on the Hill who will always take the opposite side of a proposal, if one in the other party wants to get it through. And right there, folks, is our problem.

Too many times our representatives in Washington play politics instead of representation.

I have always stated that once you win your election to represent us, you then are not Democrats or Republicans, you are representatives. Starting with day one, your job is to listen to the people and not to the political party.

Of course, I also know that you can’t get things to happen in the first few months, but you can try to do it. Let those who elected you through our voting process know that you are there to make a point and to try to get it through.

I guess that even though we live in the greatest country in the world, we can improve on anything that is needed to maintain our freedoms and to keep the USA as a country where others will want to live, because we are free and we can just about say or write anything we want without the fear of one day having the door knocked down and us carried off to jail or, even worse, the loss of our lives.

We live under a government of the people, by the people and for the people. We express ourselves with our “Pledge of Allegiance”. We wave “Old Glory” and we sing our National Anthem at all our sporting events. God bless the USA.

Ray “Uncle Ray” Day is a weekly contributor to the Kokomo Tribune. He can be reached by e-mail at arermdrd@netusa1.net or uncleray@skyenet.net

        

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