I have stayed off here.

I have stayed off here because I am disturbed by what is happening in my county now.  I see elected officials inciting violence.  I see the party I  belonged to for 46 years encouraging foreigners to break our laws.  My son asked me why I did not hold the Republicans to the same standards that I hold the Democrats to.  I had to give it some thought and here is what I feel:  I was raised to be a Democrat.  My father and his father were Democrats.  I had always defended all actions by the Democrats.  It never even occured to me to vote Republican.  But I have watched the Democrats first become the party of nothing.  Literally nothing.  Even when they had control of all three branches of government, they did nothing.  I watched as they encouraged blacks to get on welfare, to take the "poor me, it is all the white man's fault" attitude.  I watched as those same blacks were pushed into ghettos with no hope of ever getting out.  I watched as those blacks developed an attitude of " I'm entitled. You owe me." 
I watched as the Democrats abandoned the Unions, the working class, never spoke out nor tried to fix the Child Protective System.   I watched as they sat back and allowed our schools to be destroyed.  I could not believe it. 

Then I watched as Clinton stepped up and ran for President with the air of I am the next president.  She packed her campaign with illegal foreign nationals.  She promised to finish deregulating Wall Street.  She promised open borders.  And she told the working and poor that they were deplorable.  She was promised back in 2008 that if she stepped aside and let the democrats put the first black in office, she would be given the presidency at the end of his 8 years.  So she was ready to accept her corination.  The party routed all donations from city level to federal level to her campaign.  The party trashed Sanders to prevent him from becoming the nominee.  And her campaign paid for the Russian mess.  Even the federal employees jumped on the band wagon to rig the outcome of the election.  Comey and the other FBI agents broke federal law in doing this.  And the democratic party had their superdeligates to make sure she got the nomination just in case the people did not vote for that nomination.  They were set to give  it to her in just the way they gave it to Obama in 2008.  They were installing their dictator and to hell with what the people wanted.  So the silent majority rose up and stopped it.  They sent a message with Trump.  And the democrats ignored it.  They instead turned their entire attention to fighting for the illegal foreign nationals.  Completely.  And the rest of us could just go to hell.  So I cancelled my democrat registration and registered as an independent.  Oh, and why did I not hold the Republicans to the same high standards I held the Democrats to?  Because the Republicans never promised to help anyone but their rich friends.  So both parties jumped on the bandwagon for the rich and the working, minority, and poor were screwed.  Absolutely screwed.

DACA

I think this was the absolute worst thing that Obama did in his whole presidency.  All it did was encourage others to come in hopes they can get in on it.  And the push for amnesty has flooded our borders with illegals.  I do not think that we should award these illegals with anything.  They got a good education at the expense of the taxpayer.  They need to be sent back to their country and let them make that country great.  If we allow them citizenship, we will be overrun with illegals, more so than now.  I have been called heartless for my attitude.  I don't see it that way.  If you look at the plight of our own children in this country and the plight of the working and poor, it makes no sense to allow these people into the country to take benefits away from our own.  We have around 2 million children in the system at any given time.  We have a burn out rate of case workers of about 6 months.  We have homeless children, children who go to bed hungry every night.  And black kids are shoved into the ghettos with no hope of ever getting out and a better life.  Their schools are subpar.  They dodge bullets.  They get beaten up, raped.  Two children were shot while playing in their driveway.  One 9 year old shot and killed while laying on her mother's bed doing homework.  Children in these neighborhoods sleep on the floor to avoid being shot and killed in their sleep.  So it makes sense to me to take care of our own first and invest in our own citizens.  It makes no sense to me to be championing these illegals.  They have countries.  Work to fix your own country.  And those championing them and demanding we give them everything don't give a tinkers damn about our own children.  Really makes me kinda sick.  How can you turn you back on your own children who are depending on you as a society to help them?  How can you throw them away in favor of those who don't even belong here and have no right to be here? 

This crap about separating children from their parents, those parents are criminals.  Using that argument, we would have to release any prisoner in any of our prisons who have children.  We cannot prosecute and imprison any adult that has children because we are taking their children from them.  You can't have it both ways.  And I am sick and tired of hearing how bad the poor illegal foreign national has it.  How those kids were brought here as children.  Well take it up with your parents.  We did not kidnap you and bring you here.  We did not invite your parents to bring you.  You are not our problem.  So, yes, I want to see a thorough housecleaning.  Very thorough.  And I want anyone hiring them to be arrested, fined and prosecuted.  I don't care if it is a housewife hiring a maid, she is breaking the law.  And just like the drugs, if you are caught hiring illegals, everything you own will be confiscated.  We do it for drug pushers, why not for those here stealing from us.  And don't go after a supervisor in a company.  Get the CEO.

The first lady

From what I have read of Mrs. Trump, she is an introvert.  She is always being trashed no matter what she does and she is a private citizen.  She did not run for any office.  She was not voted into any office.  And being an introvert is not easy.  It is stressful to have to deal with a crowd of people under normal circumstances.  Dealing with the world watching and criticizing 24/7 has to be a nightmare for her.  I like her.  I think she is a cool first lady.  I think she is a good mother.  And I think we need to leave the children and wife/husband of the president alone.  She has not inserted herself into politics.  She has made on policy statement at all.  And if you had found out that your husband had had an affair with a hooker when you were pregnant with your child, I wonder how all those criticizing her would have handled it.  If all she did was withdraw from public then I think she should be commended.  If it were me, and I don't care whether my husband was president or not, I would have drugged him, lopped it off, flushed it down the toilet, dragged him out buck naked on the lawn, packed my bags and left.  The woman has to be hurting and should be left alone. 

As to the hooker, the dems can be real proud of that mess.  And the only thing they have done is hurt an innocent woman and young boy. 

The mess of my country.

I am not anti-immigration.  I am anti-illegal foreign national.  We have consulates and or embassies in almost every country in the world.  If you want to come to this country, go to one of those consulates or embassies and apply for a visa.  Don't sneak into the country and then demand your "rights."  The mess we have along our southern border is mind-boggling.  And every one of those illegal foreign nationals that either sneak into the country or show up at a port of entry and demand asylum is a criminal.  They are coming here to earn money, drop a few anchor babies, and live off the taxpayer.  Our public school system is broken.  All the money goes to education illegal foreign nationals in their own language.  Please.  At least learn the language.  And the real kicker is that they are not interested in getting an education.  They attend school for free lunches and breakfasts and free babysitting for their parents while they work off the books. 

Our medical system is really broken.  A citizen cannot afford to have children because we have to pay for those babies.  An illegal foreign national just shows up at the hospital, is admitted, drops the kid and leaves.  Never pays a dime.  And are signed up for tanf, wic, food stamps and quite often section 8 housing before she even leaves the hospital.  A citizen leaves with a huge hospital bill that they have to pay off.  And that illegal foreign national will work off the books, pay no taxes and send a large portion of that money out of the country.  And if they do get a tax id number and pay in taxes, they will get back thousands more than they paid in the form of earned income credit and child tax credits. 

And now we are hearing how cruel we are for not allowing them to all just walk into our country.  For not just ignoring the borders.  There is even a non-profit in Las Angeles that goes to Central America, organizes a caraven of illegals to come through Mexico to the border to come in here and leach off the taxpayer.  They are coached on what to say.  And there is nothing happening to this non-profit nor the organizer.  The organizer is Alex Mensing and his non-profit is called Pueblos Sin Fronteras.  In my opinion, he should be charged with treason because he is helping these illegal foreign nationals to invade our country and attempt to overthrow our government.  The goal is to get so many here, get them all citizenship.  Then they will control the government.  We will cease to exist.  And this fool is doing this at the expense of the citizens, the poor and working class citizens in this country.  75%of all jobs created goes to illegals.  75%.  Does not leave much for the citizens, does it.  Am I angry?  I am beyond angry.  And our own damn politicans are on this bandwagon.  The democratic party, which has touted itself as the party of the working and poor, has done nothing for the working and poor in 50 years.  The blacks have been totally thrown under the bus. In the North, they have been shoved into ghettos, made dependent on the government, and have no hope of escaping.  Their schools are crap.  They face bullets every day.  But no mention is ever made of improving their lives.  The dems are all about the illegal foreign nationals.  This is why we put Trump in office.  We sent a message and neither party got that message.  We will keep sending it. Hopefully, before it is too late, they will get that message.  I am not holding out hope though.