Most polls in the US will show that people are most concerned about the economy, national security and immigration, in that order. As I thought about and researched the immigration issue, legal and not legal, it occurred to me that all three are interrelated to a large degree. This is especially true regarding immigration’s impact on the economy and national security.

I have also observed that where people stand on legal and i*****l i*********n varies due to a variety of factors, except for politicians and people who are active politically. The people in the last groups, politicians and politically active people, usually fall into one (sometimes two) of the following three categories: ideological, self interest, or what they believe the majority of the American people want. This is of course another huge topic for discussion in itself and will be the subject of one of my post in the near future.

An in depth look into our “legal” immigration system revels that it has been turned into a typical government bureaucracy. Mismanaged at every level and so corrupt that it is deliberately misused for financial and political benefit for a variety of people and special interest groups.

There are hundreds of thousands of people "legally"(?) admitted to the US each year (over 500,000 on student visa's alone). I had no idea there were so many different types of visas. There is very little, if any, background checking done and little to no follow up to see if they are actually doing what they were admitted to the U.S. to do, or if they went back home when their visa expired. Examples are student visas where they are registered to attend classes at "approved" schools that do not exist. There are literally millions of people here illegally and very little is being done to follow up by DHS or any other agency. In fact people who overstayed their visa are a large percentage of the 11 to 12 million people that the politicians admit are here illegally. It is also important to note that some people claim that the number of i******s in the US is significantly larger than 11 to 12 million (“!ADIOS, AMERICA!” by Ann Coulter).

With some classes of visas the approved applicant can even get visas for their spouse and family members under 18 years old.

Many U.S. companies, like Facebook and Microsoft are spending millions to get some of these visa programs expanded. They want them expanded so they can hire increasing numbers of these immigrants at as little as one third of what they are, or would pay Americans. Additionally in many cases the immigrants do not get any company provided benefits or pay into our systems like SOC, Medicare, etc. This is another financial incentive for companies to replace American workers with these immigrants. A large number of these immigrants and i*****l i*******ts add to our tax burden by taking advantage of our social safety net. Examples are sending their children to public schools and using hospital emergency rooms for medical care. Many companies like Disney World, California Edison and others are openly replacing American workers with low paid, low sk**led immigrants and forcing the Americans to train their replacements or be fired. If they chose to be fired they are not eligible for unemployment or any severance package that may be offered when they are let go.

There are actually companies and people (agents) here and in other countries like China, India, and Indonesia that are making a fortune charging fees to help people get visas and serving as employment agencies for American companies to help them get around U.S labor laws or they simple ignore the laws. There are a number of lawsuits filed in Federal courts by various groups of people who were replaced this way but they will be tied up in courts for years. Apparently it is cheaper for the companies to pay lawyers than to pay the displaced American workers.

This is part of the reason that our real unemployment and underemployment rate is probably somewhere around 20 plus percent. It is simple math. You need a net of about two and a half million new jobs per year in the U.S. for the unemployment rate to just stay the same due to the number of people who turn 18 in the U.S. each year (2010 US census data). The math simply does not add up when you add this to the number of immigrants the Government allows to enter the US each year on visas.

The abuses of these programs have been going on for a long time to some degree but have become dramatically worse during the Obama administration. Some of these abuses were made possible by decisions and changes made to the programs by bureaucrats, not Congress (sound familiar?). Remember it is impossible to fire a federal employee.

It should also be noted that many of the people who get visas under some of these programs also get a pathway to citizenship. Want to guess if they become dev**ed v**ers and which party they will consistently v**e for?

The bottom line is that millions of American workers are permanently unemployed or underemployed as a result of these programs. And the abuse is expanding.

Choose wisely in November!

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Actually "Fast and Furious" was not started under President Bush. The operation during President Bush's last term was code named "Wide Ranger". It was a carefully coordinated operation with the BATF, U.S. Border Patrol, the Mexican authorities South of the border (working with U.S. agents stationed in Mexico) using guns with tracking devices in them. Unfortunately when the guns were tracked over the border the Mexican authorities were not where they were supposed to be and the guns were lost. The operation was shut down due to the unreliability of the Mexican authorities. "Fast and Furious" was in no way related to "Wide Ranger" and had only one goal, discredit lawful gun dealers and destroy the 2nd Amendment. Suggest you read the book, "The Unarmed T***h" by John Dodson.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) began with the Judiciary ACT of 1789 which created a one man, part time Attorney General. It obviously has been changed many times since then and expanded to the point that it is now a huge government bureaucracy. Like all government bureaucracies its actions have been influenced at times by political ideology. However, I am not aware of it being referred to as the “Department of Injustice” until recent years. There has been a lot written and reported about the Department over the years including a book titled, “Injustice” by a former career DOJ attorney, J. Christopher Adams. In the book he documents how completely the DOJ became a partisan department under President Obama.

As I read about the DOJ under Eric Holder over the last few years I began to wonder how it became so politically and ideologically driven so quickly. As I researched the subject I discovered why it was able to become such an effective tool for the Obama Administration so quickly. It was because Bill Clinton staffed it with leadership and a deep base of left leaning ideologues during his two terms in office. He did that so he could use the DOJ to push his personal and political agenda items. Bill just did not do that as blatantly as President Obama has.

In addition to making sure the DOJ was staffed with as many partisan attorneys as he could during his two terms in office, President Clinton also authorized a big hiring push late in his second term. In addition to the Left leaning Ideologues that the new AG, Eric Holder inherited, he immediately began to replace as many of the non-partisan career attorneys who worked there as he could with people that he could count on to go along with his and President Obama’s efforts to “fundamentally change America”. This effort to replace people who he could not count on to be partisan especially applied to people in positions of authority. Non-partisan people that they could not immediately push out or replace were subjected to intimidation and harassment by other employees and supervisors.

With the appointment of Eric Holder as the (AG) the enforcement of President Obama’s agenda items took off immediately and with an absolute indifference to the rule of law the DOJ is sworn to enforce and protect. This management ideology did not change with the appointment of Loretta Lynch to replace Eric Holder. She proved that recently when she testified before Congress about the DOJ’s plans to try to silence “c*****e c****e deniers” by bringing charges against them using the Federal RICO statues! This is a deliberate attack on the 1st Amendment.

One of Eric Holder’s first specific, agenda driven acts as AG was to throw out the v**er intimidation convictions against the Philadelphia Black Panthers. A veteran civil rights attorney who witnessed their blatant acts of intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling location stated on the record that it was the worst case of v**er intimidation he had seen in his career. This act alone indicated how agenda driven this administration was going to be.

And then they moved on to much bigger partisan agenda items! Two of these were
“Fast and Furious” and the IRS targeting of non-profit conservative groups. “Fast and Furious” was intended to set up an opportunity to take the first steps to destroy the 2nd Amendment and the IRS targeting of conservative non-profit groups (an attack on the 1st Amendment) dramatically influenced v****g efforts during the 2012 e******ns. Both of these were orchestrated and covered up at the highest levels of the Obama Administration, especially at the DOJ.

Operation “Choke Point” was another DOJ operation that was launched secretly using bank regulators to try and force banks to refuse to do business with industries the DOJ did not like. Firearm, coal and precious metals businesses were their specific targets. The effort was intended to shut down these industries by denying them banking services. More agenda driven attacks on the 1st and 2nd Amendments!

Another way this administration uses the DOJ to push their favorite agenda items is to quietly encourage special interest groups to file suit against various government agencies over rules or regulations they do not like. This allows the DOJ to enter into financial “settlements” with the special interest groups who brought the suits and for the agencies to re-write the rules or regulations in question to fit the Obama Administration’s agenda (without consulting Congress). Clearly the Obama Administration does not see a need for our Republic’s system of government with a Constitution and, the 3 coexisting branches of government, Executive, Legislative, and Judicial.

The only way to stop this calculated and deliberate destruction of our Constitution is to change which party occupies the Whitehouse in November!

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If you are on the left side of our political system you probably cheered when you heard Hillary say that. For the rest of us our reaction was the absolute opposite because we remember what happened to America based on his economic policies when he was President! Just one example is how he used the “Department of Injustice” to enforce his home ownership ideology which resulted in the long term destruction of the American economy. The “Department of Injustice” will be the subject of one of my future articles.

I know some people will loudly protest what I just wrote about President Clinton’s economic policies. They will say that we had balanced budgets and a thriving economy during his time in office. We did have some balanced budgets but that was the result of a Republican led house forcing a government shutdown twice and refusing to let President Clinton use it to his advantage politically.
And yes, we did have a false sense of a “thriving” economy during part of President Clinton’s Administration. However this was not necessarily a result of his economic policies. This was partially the result of the “dot com bubble” which was stock market driven and the “housing bubble” which was deliberately created by the Clinton Administration.

There was also the “peace dividend”. President Clinton, with the help of Congress drastically cut spending on national defense and intelligence to help reach the balanced budget agreements.

The “dot com” bubble was the first of the two bubbles to “bust”. This happened late in President Clinton’s second term and caused a lot of people to lose a significant portion of their retirement funds, myself included and a huge hit to our economy.
Here is how the housing bubble was created. During the Carter Administration the CRA (Community Revitalization Act) was passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Carter. However it had little to no effect on the home mortgage or small business loan industry because lenders simply refused to make loans to people who did not meet minimum credit qualifications. This changed early in Bill Clinton’s first term. He used the Attorney General, Janet Reno and the “Department of Injustice” to force banks to make loans to people who did not qualify for them. Their approach was simple. The banking regulators, working with Janet Reno and her staff, looked at bank loan portfolios based on a new set of CRA guidelines to determine if the banks violated “Fair Lending Regulations” or were guilty of “Redlining” (not making loans in certain geographic locations or opening branches in these areas).

In 1995 President Clinton authorized the “securitization” of sub-prime mortgages. This made it legal for these high risk loans to be packaged and sold as “securities”. This kept the sub-prime loan business going for years and allowed the housing bubble to grow to such a level that its “bust” did so much damage to the U.S. economy that we are still struggling to overcome it. And to make matters worse the Obama Administration continues to blame everything on President Bush (43) and the banking industry, while making ridiculous claims about what a great job his administration has done fixing the economy. It is also aggressively working to restart the sub-prime loan business!

We have one chance to save what is left of our republic in November! Choose wisely!

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I originally wrote this article back in March and posted it on my personal blog site, onlymakessense.com. This is a condensed version due to the word count limitation for articles on this site. The full original article is still posted on my blog site.

Recently I heard a Fox News contributor, while talking about the current national mood regarding politics say, “we are seeing a quiet revolution”. Regarding it being “quiet”, I can only assume she meant that it was not being done with guns (up to this point?) like previous revolutions.
As I thought about what she said it seemed to be the perfect phrase to describe what is happening in America today and how long it has been building up to “revolution” status. Republicans, Democrats, Independents, libertarians and people who simply were not involved in politics at all are so tired of “politics as usual” that they are literally taking action to “throw the bums out”. They are mad at liberal Democrats, rino Republicans and almost everyone in between. I have personally heard people say, “I have never registered or v**ed but I am going to in this e******n”
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For several days after I heard her say that I thought about the significance of what is happening in America now and how far back the roots of this movement go. The more I thought about it the more convinced I am that it has been a long time coming and that it is clearly happening in America at an accelerating rate.

As I studied and thought about this it seemed clear to me that this “quiet revolution” began in the sixties with President Kennedy’s assassination and Johnson becoming president. Johnson was one of the most “political” Presidents in our history. He was a smart, manipulating, coercive, intimidating, and win at any cost politician. With him everything was political. During the fifty years since the sixties we now have a president who appears to be the same but is in fact totally different. With President Obama everything is totally about himself and his ideologue. With him the political system is merely a way for him to continually stoke his insatiable ego and his personal agenda. His administration did not create the “quiet revolution” but they did bring it to a boiling point.

So now we have the “quiet revolution” which is not so quiet and gaining in volume every day. This is what Trump and Sanders has tapped into and the movement is growing. The party leaders (I use that term loosely) in both parties had better pay attention, especially the rino Republicans! Anyone remember Eric Cantor?

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the monetary value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country's borders in a specific time period. National Debt is the total dollar amount that a Government has in outstanding debt. This article is a comparison of the 2015 U.S GDP to the U.S. national debt on December 31, 2015 and how that affects the U.S. economy.

The United States 2015 year end National Debt as a percent of the U.S.2015 GDP was 104.17 percent (total GDP divided by total National Debt). Another important GDP percent is the annual GDP growth rate. Why is the National Debt, as a percent of annual GDP, and the annual GDP growth rate important? Because they are undeniable indicators of how healthy the U.S. economy is now, will be in the immediate future, over the next few years, and to some degree, long term.

How are these two percentage numbers “undeniable economic indicators”?

First, if national Debt as a percent of GDP is over 100 percent it means that if the U.S. Government took ALL of the goods and services produced in the previous year and converted them to U.S. dollars the amount of money generated would NOT pay off our national debt!

Second, a 3 per cent annual GDP growth rate is considered by most economists as the minimum annual growth rate necessary to meet the minimum needs of the expanding U.S. population.

Both of these economic measurements indicate the U.S. economy will be even weaker on December 31, 2016. The projected National Debt will be over $20,000,000,000,000 (yes that is the correct number of “0’s) by December 31, 2016 and the Obama Administration has presided over an economy where the monthly GDP growth rate has not exceeded 3 percent a single month during his time in office and has actually been less than that during many of his months in office. The GDP growth during the 1st Quarter of 2016 was only 0.05 percent, which is extremely weak by any measurement.

It is even more concerning when you consider that our Government managed to accumulate this much debt, and continues to add to it while the national Interest rates have been at historical lows for years. Imagine what our National Debt annual growth rate will be when interest rates increase?

How did we get here? It is simple, our U.S. Government continues to spend more money than it generates year after year after year. This is in spite of the fact that it is the only Government entity in America that has the legal authority to endlessly print its own money and borrow money with no limits by issuing and selling U.S. Treasury Bills, Notes and Bonds.

What is even more frightening is that the growth in our National Debt has happened on a continuing basis (as noted above) with national interest rates at historical lows for years and our National Defense budgets being slashed every year for the last few years.

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This is the last half of the article I posted this morning.
Here are a few examples:
Obama’s public denigrating objections to the “Citizens United” Supreme Court decision. This from a man who publically committed to accepting matching funds (with its restrictive fund raising regulations) for his first p**********l campaign but then ignored the commitment and went on to break all campaign fund raising records with no concern for any related ethical or legal regulations regarding campaign fund raising. This included his campaign headquarters refusing to use approved software which would eliminate illegal donations from the same donor or possible foreign donors and the CEO of Goggle staffing, paying for and managing a team of high end technicians to “mine” data and maximize campaign donations and e******n efforts. Loud public objections to the “Citizens United” decision have now been adopted by every ideologue on the “Left” including Hillary. It seems massive infusions of cash from any source are only OK when it is to their benefit!
A commissioner with the Federal E******ns Commission recently ruled that Harry Reid could keep all the money left in his ree******n campaign fund and use it to fund a “t***sition office”. It seems that “loose” regulation of unspent campaign funds is common by the FEC, especially under this administration.
The Bernie Sanders family and “other people’s money”. In the past Berne’s wife and daughter were paid annual salaries out of his senate ree******n funds with questionable job titles and duties. Bernie’s wife was also involved in questionable financial t***sactions involving millions of dollars when she was president of Vermont College.
Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen have been indicted for accepting inappropriate gifts from a wealthy donor. The charges indicate these gifts appeared to be in exchange for special favors from the Governor that benefited the donor’s business ventures in the state.
Obviously this list of examples could be endless with people from all political parties or no real political affiliation, but I think these examples illustrate how broken our political system is today.
What can you do about it? Short term, get informed and get involved. We have ONE chance left in November to keep our Republic, at least what is left of it today. V**e and CHOOSE wisely.
Long term you should support efforts to make significant necessary changes like term limits. Here is a group working to do that, www.termlimits.org. Go there and click on the “Article V” tab.

References:
Various internet news reports articles, and broadcast and cable news reports.

‘Citizens United ‘ is a U.S. Constitutional Law case dealing with the regulation of campaign spending by organizations. The U.S, Supreme Court held (5–4) that the First Amendment prohibited the government from restricting independent political expenditures by a nonprofit corporation. The principles articulated by the Supreme Court in the case have also been extended to for-profit corporations, labor unions and other associations.

Newsmax article: http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Bernie-Sanders-Accused-Campaign-Money-

http://nypost.com/2016/05/13/were-running-a-f-ing-casino-politician-tells-all-in-manifesto/

Part 1. Part 2 will be posted later today
Sent to me by a friend who found it on the internet, origin unknown but appropriate:
“All politicians should be limited to two terms…..
One in office and one in prison.
Works in Chicago”.
Based on everything I have read and been told over the years the Founding Fathers saw elected office as a patriotic public service especially on a national level. In fact they were concerned about elected officials becoming professional politicians. This is evidenced by Benjamin Franklin’s reply to a woman who asked him a question as he exited Independence Hall with the announcement that they had agreed on a final proposed Constitution for our new country. She asked, “What have you given us Sir, a Republic or a Monarchy?” Without hesitation he replied, “A Republic Madam, if you can keep it”. To me this confirms that the Founding Fathers feared the concept of a national government run by career politicians. Every time I read anything about or think about our Founding Fathers I am amazed at how brilliant and far sighted these men were. The fact that such a diverse group of men agreed on a document this significant and Benjamin Franklin’s reply to the question is the evidence. As I wrote this article a comment by Jaun Williams in his recent book, “We the People” really resonated with me. It was a reference to our Founding Fathers and what their reaction would be if they could walk the streets of America today.
Every day I am literally stunned when I see the American f**g trampled on (here in America!), hear people shout down free speech at our colleges and universities, or hear people publicly say things like what Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg said about our Constitution. In a televised interview she advised the people trying to form a new Egyptian government that they “should not use the US Constitution as a model for their new constitution”. This is a life time member of the Supreme Court of the United States of America publically saying that our Constitution is “bad”! How did we get to this place in America?
I think the answer to my question above is simple. It is that too often money and power bring corruption. All you have to do is turn on the news, look at a newspaper or open up your internet browser to see endless examples of corruption and mismanagement of public funds on every level, local, state and national. In my local paper I periodically see reports of local officials or their staff members committing fraud or outright theft. At the state level it is even worse and on the national level it dominates the news way too often. Unfortunately this is becoming the new “norm” where the only thing that matters to the ideologues on the “Left” and the rino Republicans is what is in their personal best interest. To these people what is morally and ethically right, is in violation of applicable regulations, and in some cases outright illegal does not matter.

Thank you everyone for sharing your thoughts and observations.

I do believe the lack of term limits, especially on a national level has had a lot to do with getting America to a place where our future is literally in question. I have actually researched and drafted another writing on term limits which I will post here soon.

I also fully agree that there will be a third party candidate enter the race right after the Republican convention, and maybe a fourth if Hillary's campaign continues to deteriorate.

And I am afraid that the level of protest we are seeing will steadily ramp up and become more violent.

Just discovered the word limit on this site..

Recently the investigation into Hillary’s private server appears to have moved forward dramatically. Marcel Lazar, a Romanian hacker has been extradited to the US for hacking into President Bush (43) and other people's e-mail and Facebook accounts. He is also being investigated for hacking into Hillary's private server (which he has admitted to doing). In a jail house phone interview with Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge he discussed how easy it was to get into her server and that while he was inside it he could see that a number of other hackers were, or had been in the server. Internet security experts who are knowledgeable about the investigation were also interviewed as part of Catherine’s report. They stressed that Lazar’s claims have not been confirmed yet but could be true. They also said that if his claims are not true it was probable that a number of hackers did gain access to the server due to its lack of available and required security systems.

It has also been widely reported that the FBI and Judicial Watch (a non- profit Government watch dog group) are, or will be interviewing Hillary and her former State Department staff regarding her use of the private server while serving as Secretary of State (Judicial Watch based on a recent Federal judge's order). Even if President Obama prevents the Department of Justice from pursing criminal charges against her or any of her staff members Judicial Watch will not let the investigation be buried if criminal action is confirmed.

Another interesting thing that has been reported regarding the status of the investigations into Hillary’s private server is that her former staff members are all being represented by the same lawyer. This is an unusual arrangement and implies to me that Hillary is paying their legal fees and is trying to control what they say and prevent any of them from "rolling over" on her and/or the other staff members. Whenever Hillary and her staff are interviewed it will be under oath and the interviews will be recorded. If Hillary or any of her staff answer the same questions differently Hillary’s entire defense will collapse.

Almost every news outlet including print, internet, broadcast and cable say that the current P**********l primaries are not like any other primaries in the history of America. Everything that has happened in the primaries in the last few days confirms that conclusion and compelled me to update, expand, rewrite and repost one of my previous posts, “Turmoil”.

For the first time, at least in modern history “big money” donors and the main stream media are NOT determining who the final P**********l candidates will be. In fact their attempts to influence the primary e******ns are driving increasing numbers of v**ers to support the unconventional candidates. Some of these v**ers are becoming fanatical in their support of these candidates.

Some of the historically unprecedented primary results so far are:
Seventeen qualified Republican candidates officially entered the race.

The one remaining candidate in the Republican primary is one of the seventeen original candidates who spent the least money during his campaign.
Jeb Bush and his supporting PACs spent over $130,000,000 but he was one of the first of the seventeen Republican candidates who was forced to drop out of the race due to ridiculously low and steadily declining poll numbers.

A 74 year old lifelong declared Socialist with little to no actual work experience that qualifies him to be President of the United States of America (sound familiar?) is still in the Democratic primary and will be all the way to the Democratic convention. He has accomplished this without any super PACs supporting him or doing any major fund raising events.

Without super PACs, big dollar donors, or major fund raisers Bernie Sanders has raised more money than Hillary in a number of recent months and spent dramatically less money than her on his campaign.

Hillary is supported by big dollar PACS and donors and has been doing big dollar fund raisers on a regular basis. Consequently there is substantially more money being spent on her campaign than there is on Bernie Sander’s campaign but she is still losing to him in key states including Indiana on May 3.
The Democratic National Committee clearly chose to “anoint” Hillary as their nominee and believed she would cruise to an easy victory in November. It is now obvious that they were completely unaware of the ”anger” in America today and are still trying to ignore it. The Republican Party leadership’s failure to be aware of this “anger” was even more consequential than the Democrats. But unlike the Democrats, the Republicans are now grudgingly acknowledging the “anger” and trying to figure out how to deal with it, win the e******n and save their party.

When you take a closer look at what is happening in the primaries for both parties it is clear that neither one can expect to have a “happy” convention or a candidate who has an “open road” to the general e******n. Even with Trump being confirmed as the Republican nominee on the first b****t at the Republican convention, I still think it is not going to be a "happy" convention. There are just too many "never Trump" Republicans.

The FBI investigations into Hillary’s use of an unapproved private server to conduct State Department business and the Clinton Foundation’s operations during her term as Secretary of State are both moving forward rapidly. Regardless of what happens with these investigations they could create a situation where Bernie Sanders becomes the Democratic nominee at their convention or someone else steps up to run for President on the Democratic ticket or as a third or fourth party candidate.

This is the second part of my post:

Many Bernie Sanders supporters still say they will not v**e for anyone else, including Hillary.

Some Bernie Sanders supporters still say they will v**e for Trump if Bernie is not the nominee.

Many Trump supporters still say they will not v**e for anyone else.

Some Trump supporters still say they will v**e for Hillary if Trump is not the nominee.

Many anti-Trump Republicans still say they will not v**e for any p**********l candidate if Trump is the party nominee or will v**e for a write in candidate.

There are increasing numbers of groups and individuals who are making public threats of violence if Trump is a P**********l candidate in the general e******n.

There are also increasing numbers of groups and individuals who are threatening violence if Trump is not a candidate.

Many people say they have never v**ed before but are registering and v****g in the primaries for this P**********l e******n. They are v****g solely as anti-establishment v**ers. Most of them will only v**e for their choice for President which means that they will not v**e for anyone else running for any national or state office, especially incumbents.

With all this turmoil we could have a huge v**er turnout or a really low v**er turnout in the general e******n in November with the v**es split among more than two P**********l candidates. If Trump is the Republican nominee and there is not a viable third party candidate in the race immediately after the Republican convention a group of anti-Trump Republicans is planning to run a candidate in key states. With a viable third party candidate running in the general e******n it is probable that no P**********l candidate will win a majority of the v**es. If a candidate does not win a majority of the v**es the US House of Representatives will elect the President and the US Senate will elect the Vice President based on the Twelfth Amendment (ratified June 15, 1804).

The US House of Representatives would choose the President with each state having only one v**e (the representatives do not get an individual v**e). The House will consider only the three candidates who got the most v**es in the general e******n.

The US Senate would choose the Vice President with each Senator casting a single v**e for one of the two candidates who got the most v**es.
Another interesting side effect of the “turmoil” surrounding the P**********l candidates is how it could affect the other people running for office on national, state, and local levels in the general e******n in November and ultimately the Supreme Court. This e******n has the potential to completely change the political structure of our country for generations.

Over the last few years I have been constantly reminded of what Benjamin Franklin said to the woman who asked him a question as he exited Independence Hall after it was announced that the Founding Fathers had reached an agreement on a proposed Constitution for our new country. She asked, ”Well Doctor what have you given us, a Republic or a Monarchy?” With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, “A Republic Madam, if you can keep it.”
Get informed, get involved, and choose WISELY in November. I firmly believe this is our last chance to avoid the “total t***sformation of America” President Obama promised in his 2008 e******n campaign.

References:
Information in this article was compiled based on a number of internet articles, internet news reports and broadcast and cable news reports.
The book “Injustice” by J Christian Adams.
The information posted above regarding the House and Senate electing the President and Vice President was summarized using information from a much more detailed writing. You can use the link below to see the original writing.
http://e*******lcollegehistory.com/e*******l/crs-congress.asp

This is the rest of my post "I*****l I*********n" that I posted this morning.
In this case they also ignored the fact that the driver was guilty of driving without a driver’s license and most likely without a valid car registration or insurance.
Regarding my reference to i******s that have a violent criminal record being released, this happens on a regular basis, sometimes with horrible results. Here are two well documented cases:
Kate Steinle was k**led in a random act of violence while standing on a pier overlooking the San Francisco bay with her father. Her father held her while she died begging him to help her. She was pregnant with her first child. Her murderer was Francisco Lopez Sanchez. He had been deported five times and had numerous drug convictions. He had recently been released from Federal prison to Customs Enforcement who then turned him over to the San Francisco County Sheriff Department. Instead of holding him for deportation the Sheriff Department released him. He randomly gunned Kate down with a stolen gun while high on drugs.
Edwin Ramos was an illegal from El Salvador and member of the violent Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang. He had a long criminal record (including felony weapons charges). In June 2008 in what can only be described as an act of unprovoked violence he murdered Tony Bologna and his two sons while they were sitting in their car at a traffic light in San Francisco.
While most of us feel compassion for the i******s who are only seeking a better life for themselves and their families, we as a country simply cannot afford to allow the current situation to continue. The i******s add to our already overloaded social safety net programs, dramatically add to the cost of operating our public school systems and hospital emergency rooms and take jobs from those in America who need them the most.Take a look at the unemployment rate in America for young men and men over 50 of all races who do not have a good education or job sk**ls, especially young black men.
Bottom line is that our Government does not know how many people are here illegally, where they are, or what they are doing and is not doing anything to attempt to solve these problems. In fact the “Left” has done everything possible to make the situation worse so they can continue to profit from it politically. President Bush (43) and his staff worked with Congress to put together an immigration reform bill in 2007. There were compromises from all sides but the administration had enough committed v**es from both parties to assure passage in both houses of Congress. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi deliberately k**led the bill to keep it from passing so they could continue to use immigration as a wedge issue with v**ers.
And then there are the “REFUGEES”! That will be the subject of another future post.
We have ONE LAST chance to save America in November! Get involved and choose wisely.

Information for this writing was compiled from a variety of internet news articles, cable news reports and published books including, “Sold Out” subtitled, “How High-Tech Billionaires and Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasils Are Screwing America’s Best and Brightest Workers” by Michelle Malkin and John Miano , “CON JOB” subtitled “How Democrats Gave Us Crime, Sanctuary Cities, A******n Profiteering And Racial Division by Crystal Wright (conservativeblackchick.com), and, !ADIOS AMERICA! .subtitled, “The Left’s Plan To Turn Our Country Into A Third World Hell Hole” by Ann Coulter.

This quote is inscribed on a plaque on the base of the Statue of Liberty, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”.

We are a nation of immigrants. In the past we welcomed them. They assimilated into our society and became a part of the greatest nation on earth. There are three key words here, ”immigrants”, “welcomed”, and “assimilated”. These words do not seem to be used in Immigration discussions today?

Immigration has become such a controversial subject now that when we hear the word “immigration” we immediately think about “i*****l i*********n”. The situation has become so politically driven that it literally seems like we as a nation cannot solve any of the problems associated with legal or i*****l i*********n. The ideologues on the Left (with help from rino Republicans) are determined to use legal and i*****l i*********n to further their own “self-interest” regardless of the long term damage to America and the millions of lives that are negatively impacted every day by their actions.

I*****l i*********n into the US happens two ways. One is legal immigrants who become illegal when they overstay their visa or do use their visa for the purpose it was issued. One example is people who come here on a student visa but take jobs from Americans, usually at lower wages than would be paid to an American. In fact legal immigration has become so corrupt and mismanaged that some experts on the subject believe that the majority of the i*****l i*******ts in America originally came here legally. I detailed and documented this in my recent post, “Legal (?) Immigration”.
How our Government tries to manage Immigrants who cross our borders without our approval has also become so politically driven that it is totally corrupt and mismanaged. When you add these i*****l i*******ts to the legal immigrants who become illegal each year the actual number of i*****l i*******ts living and working here is probably closer to 20,000,000 than the 11,000,000 the Obama administration claims are here. And the number gets bigger each year due to increases in visa programs.
Under the Obama administration we now have:
“Catch and release” policies where people who are caught trying to cross the border are simply turned back. Does anyone actually believe these people will not keep trying until they make it across and stay? Another is people who are apprehended and released with an order to appear before a judge for a deportation hearing, without checking to see if they have a criminal record here in America! Does anyone actually believe these people will show up for a hearing to be deported? Even if they did the deportation courts are so backlogged that it will take years to clear the cases already on the books.
Young i******s who are encouraged to come here by the 10,000’s of thousands. When they get here they are housed, get medical attention and then are released to the custody of relatives, who are probably here illegally. When any of these “young i******s” show up at a public school that school is required by law to take them and attempt to educate them without asking any questions, even if they do not speak any English. If you look closely at the news footage of these ”young i******s” you will see that many are teen aged boys (young men). Some reports say there is a high incidence of these young men being members of Hispanic gangs or drug cartels.
Sanctuary cities, which is something that I find hard to believe has become so prevalent in America! These are cities that openly refuse to follow federal and state laws regarding i*****l i*******ts, even those with long, violent criminal records here in the US. Not only do these cities do this, they flaunt it because they know the Obama Administration will not do anything about it. Additionally President Obama has publicly stated that he will veto any legislation by Congress that attempts to address this issue. This is not just happening in declared sanctuary cites. I was eating breakfast at a fast food restaurant one Saturday morning with two Sheriff Department deputies in the booth next to me. One of the deputies was a sergeant and shift supervisor. The sergeant got a call on his radio from another deputy who had made a traffic stop in the north end of the county. There were five young i******s in the car, some with no ID, no one with a driver’s license, some under 16 years old. Ultimately the sergeant told the deputy (loudly and profanely) to tell them to turn around and never try to come back to this county again. I could not resist asking him about how he handled the situation. He calmly explained that some prominent Hispanic people in the county met with the (elected) sheriff and informed him that they would file harassment charges against him if his department prosecuted people whose only crime was being here illegally. In this case they also ignored the fact that the driver was guilty of driving without a drive

Thanks to mass media and the 24 hour news cycle we can now be virtually consumed by “information”. So much that many people simply turn it off or selectively filter it. If you step back and consider all this “information” from a somewhat analytical point of view, you will see that it will appear to be one of the following categories:

1. Actual news

2. What is in the best interest of the people of America

3. Ideological.

In recent years it has become increasingly obvious to me that too often the “information” does not fit into the category in which it was presented. More often than not it will actually be what is in the best interest of the presenter. It has also become obvious to me that many of the “ideologues” in America have morphed into “extremist”, causing tremendous anger and turmoil in America.

If you look at American history you will see that our political system has never been as heavily influenced by ideology as it is today and certainly not by extreme ideology! However this is something that has happened throughout history on a regular basis in other parts of the world. Some of the common names used were Collectives, Cooperatives, Socialism, Democratic Socialism, and C*******m. In reality it makes very little difference what you call it. The core ideology is the same under each, NO private ownership of property is allowed. The only exception to this core ideology was when some Cooperatives allowed very limited and highly regulated group ownership of some property.

When I was in high school some teachers lectured that history has proven C*******m always moves toward Capitalism and that Capitalism always moves toward C*******m. It was an even more popular theory with some of my college professors. And now research for this writing has confirmed that history has proven this to be factual. History also shows that every time a society moved from one form of Government to another the process varied dramatically as to how long it took and how violent it was. The motivations for the people leading the change also varied but they were always extreme ideologues and produced the same results over time.

In recent months it has become clear to me that America is on the verge of being pushed into the final stages of the Capitalism to C*******m category. Some of the “politically elite” in America, with the support of media, have been working a long time to accomplish this and they are prepared to use the e******ns in November to take us there. Unfortunately it looks like the odds are in their favor, especially if people do not stop and really look at what is happening and what they can do about it!

The current two party political system in America and the Constitutionally mandated E*******l College process for ultimately electing the President and Vice President are certainly not perfect, BUT LOOK AT THE ALTERNATIVE!

References:

“Heaven on Earth, The rise and Fall of Socialism” by Joshua Muravchik

From the internet:

Ideology – a collection of doctrines of beliefs shared by members of a group or visionary theorizing

Extreme –very great in degree

Extremism –advocacy of extreme measures or views

The difference between Socialism and C*******m from a lifelong, blue collar Democrat:

He said, “I really wanted to v**e Democrat in this e******n but I cannot v**e for Hillary under any circumstance and I certainly cannot v**e for a Socialist. I have been trying to explain to people that the only difference between Socialism and C*******m is the spelling”. Pretty simple but based on my research it seems just about right.