Political Motivations

The harassment of the President by the opposition party continues with calls for release of his tax returns.  I really don't think it is anyone's business -- especially not the business of those elected representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives or the U.S. Senate.  If they believe transparency in his financial dealings is important, perhaps they should begin by releasing their own tax returns -- every year since they have been elected to their current office.

There are certainly a lot of them who have become wealthy since being elected to office.  They seem to become overnight financial geniuses while complaining about their salaries which are far above what the average citizen earns.  I'm sure some of it is shrewd investment advice related to legislative actions taken while they are in office.  I suspect some of it is "favored" insider deals that allow them to leverage small investments into exceptionally large returns -- perhaps in exchange for votes on related legislation.  There may perhaps be some of it that is downright dishonest dealings under the table that never see the light of day.

One of the things that really bothers me is resistance to border protections -- including a wall.  Without controlled borders we really aren't a sovereign country anymore.  The greatest beneficiaries of open borders are illicit businesses such as drug and human trafficking.  Controlled borders has nothing to do with immigration, as some would claim.  It is about national sovereignty.  If you lock the doors of your home when you are away, or at night, you practice controlling your own personal borders.  If you have a fence around your yard you practice controlling your border.  It only makes sense that a nation control who enters the country.

It isn't about race either.  It is about making sure criminal elements are kept out to the extent possible.  So, why is it in the best interest of our country to have open borders?  It isn't!  I suspect it is about that last way legislators get wealthy that I mentioned above.

Open borders, just like lowering the voting age to 16, is also about votes.  The opposition party is desperate to find ways to gain power through the voting booth and they believe it will be at the hand of illegal immigrants who are granted the right to vote and at the hand of young voters who have limited knowledge of the system because of an education that has failed to teach solid economic and political theory, but has instead taught that socialism is good and that there is no such thing as right and wrong -- merely personal beliefs.

I wish I knew how to fix what is wrong with our country.  We are so far down the road of a fatal internal failure that I don't know if recovery is possible.  I hope so.

The first step is to get rid of the current crop of elected representatives and replace them with new ones who have their constituents best interest in mind rather than simply the grasping of power and money.  Calls for the President's tax returns is a sleight-of-hand move that attempts to misdirect the public eye in the same manner the Mueller probe did -- pointing at the President as being culpable of the very things they themselves are guilty of doing.

Sometimes I just have to vent....