The people who speak for Kerry and Bush smile and are pleasant to each other as they bash the other's candidate.Meantime the amount of money being spent on these two campaigns is obscene.The American people need to wake up and realize that the president can not in and of his own power change our security or economic status.The seeds for 9/11 were sown years earlier when Bin Laden and those of a like mind learned how to throw the Russians out of Afghanistan.The other part of the equation was the actions of Congress during the Carter years.This is when the entire intel apparatus was brought to heel
before Congress and because they were dealing with unseemly
characters.I guess DQ was running short on intel at that point. As I understand it these hearings took away the CIA 's ability to gather human intel .Everything ELECTRONIC. The other thing that is very worrisome is the fact that people by the millions are pouring into this country all illegally.The candidates of the two
major parties make statements to appease the people of the same ethnic background. However we need to look one step farther.Our Congress is sworn to up hold the laws of this country
and they are the ones who write laws.I hope this is not allowed to continue to farther people's political careers .I hope our country by ethnic make up and the horrible possibilities that go with that many people invading our country does not become another third world country.

Quote:The people who speak for Kerry and Bush smile and are pleasant to each other as they bash the other's candidate.Meantime the amount of money being spent on these two campaigns is obscene.The American people need to wake up and realize that the president can not in and of his own power change our security or economic status.

No argument from me! Also, I don't want to deny anyone the right to enter the United States, particularly those who are fleeing persecution of one sort or another. However, we do have enough poverty and problems in this country right now without adding millions more. I agree that immigration, legal and otherwise, needs to be severely restricted while we clean up some of our own problems.

With the nation so divided, neither party can afford to alienate the illegal aliens :laugh: pouring into this nation by the thousands each day. What I can't figure, is since a large portion of the Latin American contingent are either here on work visas or here illegally how do they make up over 10% if the voting population in the US?

The next president who ever he is, should allow all who want to come in on work visas IF, they pass a background check showing they have no felony convictions, or no outstanding warrants. Also the loophole that all born in this country are immediate US citizens no questions asked needs to be eliminated if the parents are here illegally. Do reward illegals with permanent residence status, and access to US Government public assistance by giving the child of a law breaker the US citizen status.

What is needed in this country is for its citizens to begin a movement which would allow the citizens to help secure the borders. I am not talking about vigilantes or rascist issues here .The lifetime politicians Kerry Kennedy Byrd are surely briefed
on security matters.This problem is multi layered in that
supposedly these people are working jobs no one else will take.
Question? If welfare was not in a state of near collapse from the
weight of people who are professionally un employed then maybe there would not be a need to turn our head in regard to these people crossing the border.IF there are thousands of people entering our land daily what % has to be terrorist to create a scene like those of 9/11or Beirut or many other locations in the middle east. I have trouble finding the rhetoric from today's politicians amusing when they sound like they are in a divorce court.There are real issues that need to be dealt with and can not be dealt with by placating people breaking the law to enter this country.If Bush is re-elected can we expect a change worse yet if Kerry is elected this problem would probaly be embraced as a great social program. One other question which country that is
the springboard for the illegal immigrants or terrorist would allow American citizens in the number and manner as is taking place on our borders and turn their head ?The citizens of this country had better wake up and act .