Separating Families

     Let's not forget that Americans by the millions each year get separated from their families when they go to jail due to the inhumane, immoral drug laws. Their kids, as far as I know, don't get put into what looks like the dog kennels my father had for our pack of beagles, but they do go into foster care and orphanages where too many suffer from brutality including being kept in closets, pits, and in chains.
     In addition, let's not forget the agency of the illegal immigrants. They know they're breaking the law by slipping into America. Can I blame them? Of course, not. But I don't want America becoming African, Mexican, or Honduran. I don't want America becoming those hell holes, and those people will bring that culture and lack of good values to America. Not all, of course. But how could they not unless they grew up reading books about Western culture and values? Think that happened with very many?
     Illegal immigration has shut down many hospitals and even more Emergency Rooms. We simply don't have the money to save the world. Also poor Americans are having their welfare programs stripped of funds by the illegals. The programs are not even keeping up with the cost of living. The misery-inducing Democrats and other collectivists want you paying more taxes! Have you noticed that all the political elites calling for more taxes are millionaires except for Bernie who is peaking now at $750,000.
     What we should be doing, instead of importing the world's oppressed populations, is exporting the values and institutions that have made America so free and prosperous that everyone wants to come here - even the rich. We need to export the ideas around freedom, capitalism. rule by law not men (or women), private property, tolerance, and a written constitution that guarantees rights to minorities.
     These are the ideas, the practices, and the institutions that will allow a country to be free and prosperous. But there is also another problem that is about to take over Central America and then the United States. That is the power of the drug cartels. They have trillions of dollars to spend on terrorism and no conscience to stop them. Except for the navy in Mexico, the drug cartels run the country. They have killed 120 political candidates in Mexico this year alone? People are fleeing Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador because of the drug cartels.
     A journalist has written in The Week that the drug cartels have become so strong they can kill anyone they want in Mexico. It doesn't matter how many bodyguards you have. You live only if you cooperate with the drug cartels. The drug cartels are already in America. Who can stand up to them? You can't. If you were a police chief, and a drug cartel wanted safe passage through the interstate in your town for a caravan of trucks loaded with drugs, are you going to say no? Really? Not when they tell you they will give you a hundred thousand dollars in cash or the heads of your wife, daughters and sons, and your parents.
     The only way to stop the cartels from taking over and making you a slave to anything they dictate is to allow drug use to be legal again and have the government provide free, safe drugs and drug rehabilitation for those who want it. This is going to be resisted by the drug cartel, of course, and the police associations, and the private prisons. All benefit from the drug trade. You've got to stand up, Americans, and demand ending the prohibition on drugs and getting back our freedom of choice regarding drug use before it's too late. Stand up, Americans, while there's still time! Nick