There is no glorification of the illegals. Yes, many are in fact evil doers among them. Those people will have to be rooted out. Just as we have bad people already here that are not illegal immigrants, it is a matter of time and a matter of instilling good morals in the general populace. It is a shame that many are going to suffer from the many mistakes of the few. This concept of getting something for little or nothing is what brings our country to a crossroads in it's evolution.
Mexico is drowning in corruption. The United States is treading water and may drown in it's own corruption as well. We the people can stop this from happening through being united in our goals. This culture of division that we keep perpetuating will be our own undoing. It is far too easy to make enemies. We need more friends.
We have to find the things that we all have in common and work toward those goals. Holding liberty above security is one step in my limited mind.
Most just wish to have food on the table and a decent home in which to reside. We really don't need 4 television sets, 3 cars, a boat, 2 motorcycles, 60 firearms, motorized campers, a 3000 sq ft house with 5+ bedrooms, 2 car garage, and all the excess junk that really does nothing to help anyone but the individual person live in luxury. We are greedy, plain and simple. This wish, to have cake and eat it too, is leading a situation that isn't sustainable.
When we supposedly own property that is fully paid for, we find that our government officials have placed an extortion fee upon it we call property taxes. When a retired person's income is no longer able to pay those taxes, from inflation that is driven up by government expenditures, they lose that supposed private property. How many people have lost their homes to private developers that offer the local governments higher taxes dollars from higher assessed values? Government that takes away private property and gives it to private developers, under the guise of eminent domain, only helps destroy that concept of trust and honesty. We would like to think that they are doing good for the country, yet we know they are not. There are too many wrongs to name, it would take a book a thousand or more pages long to convey these things.
I like the idea of people being able to own all those things that they desire. We need to have some moderation in those desires though. Our lust for riches and the delusion that they can come quickly without consequences is helping to create the problems that we face. If people would only help their neighbors, instead of seeking to lord their prosperity over them, they would find that there is plenty to go around and we all will be better off for it. I hate the fact that we are forced to do that sharing by government regulations and redistribution. If people would do it out of the kindness of their own hearts, they might find happiness. No matter how much money you have, happiness will elude you. Riches are in the mind, the heart and in the soul. No one can rob any man of those riches either. This material world we think that will buy us happiness is only spreading misery. Deep inside we all know this, without the need to be told.
We can have liberty, happiness or the pursuit thereof, and no fear for our lives and limb. All that is required is to let go of the greed, jealousy, envy, hatred, distrust, dishonesty, and all those things that politicians use to divide and conquer us. If you feed a working man that is hungry, will he in turn bite your hand, or will you have made a friend that will lay his life down for the love and trust in his heart that you have helped to instill in him? If you care for others more than you do for just yourself, you will find that you have given and you most assuredly will receive. Those that only take and do not give will find themselves alone and without riches in the heart, mind, and soul. Those that are deceitful and seek to use people as a stepping stone to these material riches will only lose those riches in return. What will it take for people to wake up and fulfill the purpose that we were created for in the first place? But I digress... it is too much to expect of mankind.