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Border: Biden filing in Court to open the border, trying to codify "acceptable" illegal immigration, not enforcing the law, and sanctuaries are all treason. Most illegal immigrants falsely claim asylum to get into the country for free stuff. The current law is correct in prohibiting any illegal immigration. Restoring Title 42, Remain in Mexico, and having mass deportations can implement it to stop fentanyl, trafficking, and terrorists. Economy/Inflation: Crony capitalism, artificial manipulation, and printing money cannot be sustained in isolation; the free market always adjusts. Government needs to tax/spend less, to minimize drag on the market, and look at the RsOI of various programs, including self-sufficiency. Parental Rights: We need school choice, where funding follows the student, so failing schools can fail, also a free-market concept. Renewable Energy: There is no free lunch with electric/wind/solar. Nuclear remains the best, and the technology and safety are vastly improved.
The key lies in the original goal of Affirmative Action, which was to be a temporary measure (approximately 25 years) to level the playing field at the starting line, the classic American Dream. Now, in most places, anyone who studies to gain skills and seeks work in a particular field has every opportunity to merit consideration over others. With these tools available, the difference becomes the effort, so emphasizing education/training has to be fostered at home, particularly with children. After that, reducing business impediments, particularly small businesses, to be able to thrive and have an ability to hire more employees is the next step. Reasonable regulation is one thing, but we are in a state of complete over-regulation that limits companies’ ability to afford workers. Last would be using, for example, unemployment tax revenues to establish re-training programs, rather than extending the duration and/or size of benefits with no direction to make workers self-sufficient again.
Restoring trust starts with Voter ID. Clearly, we have driver licenses and county IDs available relatively easily to all, so the infrastructure is there to ensure that no one is unable to obtain one. The only reason to oppose Voter ID is a desire to cheat, so this has to be implemented. Next would be paper ballots as an audit trail that can help voters confirm that their vote was entered properly. Mail-in voting is clearly easy to commit fraud with, given any level of effort whatsoever, as thousands of phony ballots could be printed easily by one person, given readily-accessible voter registration records. I have heard stories of people arriving on Election Day to vote, only to be told that their vote had already been received. As for expanding access, I think a great idea, given that enough poll workers can be found, would be to offer seven straight days of in-person voting. By covering every day of the week, work and religious obstacles to voting should be eliminated for most people.
As stated earlier, the current law is correct in terms of illegal immigration: zero-tolerance. The E/Os from the Trump Presidency need to be reinstated to stem the tide of illegal immigration in practice. That is emergency job one. As for legal immigration reform, the employment lottery for H1-B Visas is regulated for the number of Visas being offered. This is based on employer applications for them, but some employers do overstate their needs, particularly if they avoid all the requirements to fill positions with US workers first. This is another area where enforcement needs to be strengthened, to audit the employer information provided as to seeking qualified US workers. If those efforts can be quantified, then a fair level of work Visas can be issued. As to family-based immigration for permanent residence and citizenship, yes, the process has taken too long for many who simply want to keep a family unit together or care for elderly parents, but this is again a matter of enforcement.
The climate is always changing, but we can strive to continue improving. Other countries, though, are far behind us, most notably China and India. By continuing to reduce our impact on the environment while other places achieve far less, it creates an economic disparate impact as well, where we have already been feeling the pinch in that regard, while other areas generate more wealth. Between how power is generated and residual effects of "clean energy" sources, there is no significant reduction in the carbon footprint from using electric, wind, and solar power. In fact: for electric, the power comes from coal-fired generators and car batteries burn much hotter; for wind, oil is needed to turn the moving parts, and, when they wear out, parts are not recyclable; for solar, the mining of batteries is harmful, not to mention their inability to be recycled as well. The cleanest form of energy we know of is nuclear, and it is far safer than in the past, so further development is called for.
I am pro-life, and hope that most pregnancies are carried through to full term. It is no longer a federal law question, so I expect that the states will all establish their laws in accordance with the will of its people. It is obviously a very personal decision as to wanting an abortion, as opposed to giving up a child for adoption or deciding to keep and raise the child. If it ever comes up to Congress to codify a federal law on the subject, and realizing that some people are in different situations and don't necessarily have access to information (although we should make sure as many as possible do have that access), I would think that, if there is a proposal put forth to vote on as a law, I would want as limited a timeframe as possible for any sort of allowance, so that the decision is prioritized appropriately and responsibility taken. I can accept the usual exceptions (rape, incest, health/life of the mother), but otherwise, I believe as short a timeframe as possible is warranted.
We clearly have many foreign policy hotspots, between Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. All are difficult, although they didn't have to be. Biden signaled to Putin that a "minor incursion" was acceptable, and right after that, the war started, so Biden could send taxpayer funds to the Ukraine. Biden, like Obama before him, provided lots of cash to Iran, supposedly with restrictions, but, ignoring that money is fungible, it really freed up the equivalent amount already possessed by Iran, for their state-sponsored funding of terrorism by Hamas, Hezbollah, and the rest. Taiwan is under constant threat of military action. There have been few financial restrictions on taxpayer money sent abroad, which is why equipment would be better, if we have to send something, so that is the first step, to stop sending cash. We also need to reinstitute peace through strength into our foreign policy, but we aren't even able, with the current administration, to stop the flow of illegals at our southern border.
