[PlawsWorth]

Originally posted by airspirit
Ah, but you see, I've already thought of those concerns. These ideas are not new to me, and some others have thought of similar but flawed versions of the same thing like that dimwit Buchanan.

#2: nothing in the constitution promises that you can live on the government's dime. Welfare is a service, and is not one of your protected rights. As a service, any sterilization requirement would be voluntary even if it is a REQUIREMENT for the service. You see, if you want to keep popping out children even though you can't feed them, the government has no right to stop you, but it sure as hell doesn't have to help you. It is basically telling people to be responsible.

An alternative would be to tell women that if they become pregnant or have a child while on welfare that they will immediately lose their benefits. This isn't unfair, since there hasn't been one case of immaculate conception in at least the last thousand years. Again: responsibility comes first, and without responsibility they won't be able to get off of welfare anyway.

#3: I'm not saying that people seeking POLITICAL asylum can't stay. Neither am I saying that immigration should be halted ... on the contrary, I'm all for people going through the proper channels to become US citizens. With that said, though, you shouldn't be claiming political asylum because you can't get a job that pays enough in your home country, or because you want to get free medical care or whatnot. If you can prove that you are being unlawfully opressed in your home nation (ethnic cleansing, religious persecution, etc), then we will consider it just like we do today.

What I'm aiming to stop is the flood of illegal mexicans, islanders, chinese, etc that are pouring across our borders daily, and by some estimates comprise over 3% of the US population. If you don't want to go about immigrating properly, you shouldn't be here. Similarly, if you are not a citizen, you will NOT receive any government welfare support. Also, if you are not a citizen, or you don't have legal paperwork demonstrating your right to be here (Visa, etc) and you arrive at a hospital demanding medical care, you will NOT be treated unless you can pay at the time of service and you WILL be deported. If our own citizens can't afford care or insurance because of all the charity care for illegals (who almost NEVER pay but require more care do to their lifestyles), we should not be treating illegals in our nation. If this is the second time they are caught, they WILL receive care ... once they reach the prison they will spend the rest of their life in.

#4: Repeal NAFTA. It hurts the US and turns us into a welfare supplier for Canada and Mexico ... we actually are paying welfare and social security for a large number of Mexicans, believe it or not. As a nation, we deserve to control our own destiny and finances, and we need to be able to protect our workforce.

#5: If a country popularly reviles us, they do not deserve our aid. Do you realize that we are still pouring aid into North Korea? China? Iran? Egypt gets more than anyone, yet they hate us. The UK, France, Spain, Germany, damn near every nation on Earth: they all receive aid. Why the hell should we give them funds when most of them don't seem to want it. If you don't want to be our friend, you will receive nothing. It makes sense to me.

I do realize that many of these suggestions are similar to things Hitler did, though I believe that it can be done through capitalistic means rather than the socialist ones he stood for. I don't like most of the things he stood for, but he did a damn good job of dragging a nation out of the gutter. If it wasn't for the fact that he was a psychopath and expansionist he could have done good things. In the end, though, he turned into a hatemonger and a mass murderer, and all the things he gave his people before the war were taken away again.

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