Daily Topics - Wednesday April 24th, 2013
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Hour Two: Don't "balance" our constitutional rights for security...
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#2
In retrospect I did look back at some of the archives and noticed that Mike P. (who honestly I am not a big fan of so that is likely why I missed it) did address this on Thom's show but they never really dove into this topic. It went more to blaming the monied interests and supreme court but at the end of the day Obama still signed this horrible rollback. Still no Dems stood against it as it went through both houses with no debate and no formal vote. What the heck is going on in D.C. right now that even our champions of the left are sitting idly by and allowing this to transpire?
#3
I think the best way for Americans to keep their freedom is to keep immigration down to a slow trickle of vacationers. There is enough unemployment today that we should not have to go looking for workers all over the world to do our work. There are enough qualified workers right here. And if there are not then let's get busy and educate the uneducated so they are qualified.
If we leave the floodgates of immigration open and at the same time tell the FBI and the CIA they can not monitor and observe people coming into our country I think we are opening ourselves up to more terror attacks.
Let's assume for a moment that everyone in the FBI and the CIA are all good guys with good intentions and fully competent. How can they do their jobs if they cannot monitor all of the vistors coming into the country? Escpecially if we open up the floodgates and let anyone and everyone cross the border?
We don't actually want a lot of monitoring going on so the only other option I see is to close down the borders to a trickle. If you don't want to do that then we are left with monitoring.
It does not logically follow that we can let anyone and everyone into the country and turn our backs on them and let them run wild. We are going to have more Boston Bombers if we do that.
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Can someone who gets through today please address the heinous actions of our congress and President in regards to the STOCK act last week? All we keep hearing about is the fallout from the gun debate and Boston. Is it due to the fact that no Progessives even opposed this monstrosity? Sanders, Warren, Pelosi, Obama all just let this go through. This is horrible and all should be held accountable as well as the Repubs that did this. I have been awfully blue in among the reddest of states for years and constantly defend the President and Dems against outrageous attacks but I cannot defend this. And why in the heck did I have to hear it from the late night comedian instead of the hours of political news I follow each and everyday? Stewart and Colbert's shows last night covered two massively important issues in further detail than any other news outlets. I am so disillusioned right now I feel sick.