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Ryan McEachron

C’mon Grand Jury!  We don’t have time for this.  No.  Really, the city of Victorville has better things to do then answer to the Grand Jury, the Security and Exchange Commission, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.  Just ask newly elected Victorville Mayor, Ryan McEachron.  (See Daily Press story.)

I suspect we now have two grandstanders sitting on the Victorville City Council.  The next two years are going to be fun watching Ryan McEachron and Angela Valles trying to outdo one another for the most headlines.

There are some really good reasons why these three entities are investigating the city of Victorville.   Like the Victorville 2 Power Plant, the green-cards-for-capital scheme, handshake million dollar contracts, to name just a few.

No Ryan.  The Grand Jury and the federal government need to take their sweet time with these investigations to make sure the criminals go to jail.  Are you worried?

BTW, I suspect none of these entities care what the mayor says about their time lines.

Fox News has reported Commercial Real Estate at an all time low, with 40% across the nation in Bankruptcy or buildings for sale.  Does that mean, people who were Self-employed occupied those offices.  Absolutely! 

Fourteen years ago, when President Clinton signed the Trade Agreements, little did the populace understand the ramifications and job loss this would bring to the United States.  More than 770,000 businesses, holding millions of jobs across the country, has felt its’ effect.  The Economic Infrastructure is in collapse, and proof can be found in the Foreclosure list.  How many have not renewed their Business Licenses?  How many have signed up for Social Services? 

With a $400 Billion Budget for Illegal Immigration, the American Citizen can only wonder why prejudice and irritation has caused the Tea Parties to rise in disgust, when the average family who were Self-employed, are losing their homes to Foreclosure.  One Contractor, can effect 20 businesses; from Plumbers to Electricians, as they no longer make their way to Home Depot or Lowes and private companies selling parts or privately marketed goods.

The people who benefit from a paricular service are not exactly the same people who pay the corresponding taxes, for instance as Social Monies being paid for an anchor baby.  Once they are here, they become our problem.  There seems no alternative, but to accept the results which have emerged from the policital arena.

Can we hold steadfast to the idea that our Constituents are responsible for Human Trafficking, as more than 30 million Nationals from 13 countries feed in to the United States.  We have people coming in from Third World Countries wanting to change our Policies, Laws and Procedures, when they don’t have enough potable water to flush a toilet.  Many of our Constituents come from the “spectre of the power-hungry bureaucrat, eager to expand his empire in accordance with Parkinson’s Law.”  They regard public services as free goods and fail to realize that they must be covered by taxes.  After all, “high spending”, usually benefits a certain group.

This country used to esteem to excellence, but to simultaneously raise expenditures, ultimately calls for taxes to be raised, as well.  There seems to be a cliche’ from the American Economy, that “big business”, “bid Labor” and a dispporportionately “big government” have now reached an alarming expenditure of quantitative question, as this administration sells their ideas through the euphemism of “health care”.  It is a wiener, wrapped in Belgian Lace.  In actually, it is a complicated overlapping network of  taxation.  

Ultimately, there is a limit to what the “traffic” will bear.  To be a true maket for competative goods and services for the United States, our GNP must be include the incentive for Planning and Efficiency.   A place where business can flourish and people can once again sustain the economic infrustructure.  We cannot allow or permit the widespread -unchecked exercise of a monoply in power from a government gone wild with meddlesome intervention.  We must insist on the standards that made America the great country we once knew.  How do we change this???  VOTE, VOTE, Vote.

Theodore Roosevelt’s ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.

“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American . . . There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag . . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.  And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”

—Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Mike Morrell is a businessman from Southern California.  He has been married to Joanie for 31 years and together they have three children.  He is an alternate on the San Bernardino County Republican Central Committee.  He is a candidate for the 63rd Assembly District.  His website can be found at:   www.morrellforassembly.com

We hear today that the United States houses between fifteen and twenty-five million illegal immigrants.  An estimated 32 percent of these individuals live in California, as our state offers assistance up to $11.2 billion annually.  In light of the staggering fiscal and social problems inherent in these figures, what position should we Republicans take?

Certainly, we recall that ours is a nation of immigrants.  From the Eastern seaboard Lady Liberty calls, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”  Truly, America is unlike any other nation, with neither racial nor ancestral borders to define us.  Yet our founders determined a set of immovable principles, both political and moral, and these became the “ties that bind.”  These principles found clear expression in our early writings.

The Declaration of Independence describes a process of ideological (rather than genealogical) nation-making.  For Americans, the first principle was “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.”  The second principle was government by consent, which exists to ensure the safe exercise of these rights.   To the modern world, the American experiment of equality and consent presented a novel method for making citizens.

The Founders believed that a people’s’ ability to become citizens would not depend upon their race, gender, or national origin, but rather upon their belief in human equality and their commitment to principles of American government.   Do not come, they thought, if you deny the God-given rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  That word “happiness” signified the good life, or living virtuously.  A man could not understand happiness after living too long under despotism, or becoming accustomed to vices of fraud, deceit or crime.      Content under tyranny externally, or dominated by the “tyranny of the passions” internally, some strangers lacked the humane self-assertion and noble self-restraint needed to maintain liberty and government by consent.  Our founding generation could not overlook the absence of such virtues—are you and I willing to risk falling short?

Today, we speak highly of “respect” to promote a free and decent society.  The founders envisioned the same goals, but reserved their respect for those who exhibited honesty, truth, gratitude, industriousness, assertion and love of fellow men and women.  This attitude built on the centuries-old ideas of Plato’s Statesman, which asserted that the proper virtues must be woven into the souls of all citizens if they hoped to achieve a free and just society.  Similarly, with vastly different backgrounds, but fortified with common virtues and shared purpose, people from a multitude of countries could be bound together as citizens in every era of our history.  As Lincoln, in studying this condition of strangers on our shores, noted:

If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence, they find that those old men say that “ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh, of the men who wrote that Declaration—and so they are.  That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world.

To this sentiment should we return as we continue the debate over immigration.

Americans on both sides of the aisle believe in equality.  Today, then, how do we answer those on the Left who argue for open border policies?  First, we must examine the motives of those who push for a “quick” pathway to citizenship.  Recent polling and statistics from American Spectator and other publications suggest that the majority of children (born to American citizens between 1981 and 2000) grew up with conservative homes and religious backgrounds.  Over the next decade, this will represent a Republican voter base five million stronger than that of the Democrats.  Are we surprised when our opponents champion the right to vote for those here illegally?   After years of legislation for Planned Parenthood and similar agendas, the liberals have finally run up against what are to them disconcerting demographic trends.

Second, as Americans, we cannot afford to stoop to these political games as the integrity of our national character hangs in the balance.  Instead, let our first objective be to restore our commitment to the political principles of the American Founding, and to return to the notion that a loyalty to those principles is an essential part of making new citizens.  Only then can we uphold uniform rules of naturalization, and secure our nation for ourselves and for future generations.