Dear MAGA: Open Topic 20181222

Sometimes, the words just have to come out.
In three days, we will celebrate the birth of Christ. He died for our sins, and carried with him the greatest burden in all of humanity. All over the world, we will gather together to celebrate this event. We decorate our homes, give each other gifts, and prepare a feast for friends and family…, yet we often lose site of the burden Christ carried for us all. Christ washed away our sins, in particular pride, greed, envy, and wrath.
Today in America, our government, the Congress of the United States of America, is focused on “blame” for a shutdown. The USA is an unusual nation in that we are the only country in the world where our rights, as citizens, were endowed by God, and can never be taken away by any man nor government. Like the death of Christ and his greatest gift, we often lose site of how fortunate we are as Americans to live freely. We should be humbled and grateful. Among all other nations, we are blessed with rights for all citizens.
For those in government who seek to lay “blame” for current conflict, if their PRIDE is in the way, I shall stand and accept the blame. I am a lowly woman, an ordinary American wife and mother, yet I rise with courage and conviction to defend my nation, community, and home. I will accept the burden of blame. I am neither special nor Godly, but I am an American.
Our country is in peril. My country is no longer safe and I demand satisfaction from our leaders. This is my right.
While Congress bickers and seeks to blame, stop, or resist our President to score a political win, I see the problems of illegal immigration in my community. The people are desperate for solutions and relief from the problems of illegal immigration.
I see hundreds of tradespeople out of work. They are native born Americans who were proud of their craft but replaced by illegals who work for cash at slave wages. These once proud men now take odd jobs when customers seek quality work but these are the men who used to own companies, pay taxes, and hire people.
Our schools are overflowing with citizens from other nations, to the detriment of our American children. In the past 20 years, my property taxes have risen 545% to defray the costs of government’s ill-conceived and overly generous legal/illegal immigration policies. We cannot sustain these taxes and the breakdown of our schools weakens all of America.
The little Catholic Church in my neighborhood was started by my inlaws. The family worked with others as the church grew and thrived over decades. Yet, my friends no longer attend. My girlfriends are made to feel uncomfortable, leered at, in church.
The last time I attended, there was a lovely children’s program…. at Christmas. One American child stood with 27 children of illegals. As I left, I walked past the church organ and brushed my hand along the keys. The organ was a gift to the church, raised with funds dedicated to the memory of my father-in-law. I shall never go back. My little church is lost, yet church doctrine still supports illegals rather than Americans. My church is dependent on federal dollars to ‘resettle’ immigrants and refugees, legal and illegal.
As my grandmother before me, I volunteer at our local rural hospital and I sit on the Board of Directors. Over 25 years, we fought hard to keep it open, personally recruiting physicians, and filling in to help where needed. In the past year, we lost our emergency room. Annually, we suffer a 26% cost write-off because of duty bound care for illegals and the inability to be reimbursed for said expenses. We could no longer support the financial losses. Losing an emergency room threatens the lives of our citizens as the closest emergency room is now, another 20 minutes away. The impact seriously affects our community and our ability to attract new industry, more jobs, to our locale.
Our community lost two large factories over the last 20 years, employing 2247 people in a town of 8000 and a county of 25000. One factory went to Malaysia and the other went to Mexico. The payroll from the 2247 employees supported the tax base for municipal employees, schools, police, courts, and our fire department. Yes, NAFTA was bad policy for America.
We are a generous town. I started the United Way in my county and raised millions for our local charities, among them, a domestic violence shelter. Today, 77% of the shelter is filled with illegal immigrants, citizens of foreign nations. We have to turn away American women and their American children.
Illegal immigration also presents a problem with a rise of an underground economy. When people are paid in cash, the wages are never taxed. People barter for services and goods. Society breaks down, and crime rises.
Drugs, more deadly than ever before, creep into the community.
And still, our leaders bicker about a funding a Border Wall. As ludicrous as it sounds, one political party thinks I’m not compassionate enough. They fiddle while our communities burn. They are either inept, blind, or they are purposely destroying America.
Yes, we need a Border Wall.
Yes, we need to end “Catch and Release”
Yes, we need to end “Chain Migration”
Yes, we need an effective system to stop Visa overstays.
Yes, it is absurd to provide an incentive for pregnant women to travel to America, enter illegally, that their child receive the full benefits of all Americans
“Your poor, your tired, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free” did not mean, “Sneak in via loopholes and immediately apply for welfare”.
The sins are causing our leaders problems.
Pride- is in the way for those who cannot allow a competitor a perceived win, means you cannot lead, nor are you benevolent. Our President has put many offers on the table over the past 2 years, all rebuffed by the opposing party.
Greed – is in the way by wanting to keep control at all costs
Lust – the lust for power and fame by politicians and pundits is overriding common sense solutions.
Gluttony – our government taxes citizens excessively yet clings to the purse for the most basic of protections.
Envy – for power, for riches, to be able to dictate who among us will share in America’s prosperity or oversee our purposeful demise.
Wrath – has no place here when resolving problems, yet we see plenty of wrath, personal attacks, and venom.
Sloth – most of all, sloth.
Our elected leaders should have solved the problem of illegal immigration 40 years ago.
To our politicians and elected leaders, I say:
Blame me and curse me, the lowly woman, but fix the problem of illegal immigration on my behalf. Our President tried to accept the blame because BLAME is not the issue. The issue is protection of the American people.
To Congress, I say
Do your duty on behalf of the citizens of America.
“Do this in remembrance of me” – the regular American.